Transferring a YahooGroup of 14,500 members
Obviously the Verizon/Yahoo deal has now scared me into action. I have secured my groups name in IO. I want to secure all of the member email addresses from YahooGroups BUT not yet go live with the IO
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Ruthie Levi
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#1912
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Re: can't find log of owner messages to a member - where are they logged?
Thanks, Duane. I hope it's very high on the list. :) J
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#1911
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Re: can't find log of owner messages to a member - where are they logged?
They're not logged, only sent to you if you use Bcc: It's been discussed in several threads on beta@ and is on the TODO list. It will probably come as part of the Notifications Overhaul, but may be
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Duane
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#1910
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can't find log of owner messages to a member - where are they logged?
Does anyone know where a "send message" owner message to a group member is logged? A couple of them I sent yesterday are not in "owner messages," they're not in the group message activity or moderator
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Noel, I meant public in the stricter sense that anyone can read the messages, without joining. I don't know whether the DMCA (or a lawyer arguing about it) considers those effectively the same. Which
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Shal Farley
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Noel . . . <n.leaver@...> wrote: I wonder what he will think when you shut down the Yahoo group (turn off posting for regular members)? Will you lose him or will he migrate to the new
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Donald Hellen
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#1907
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Re: Control over Photo section
Our group also would love to be able to monitor what certain members upload. Most members get that we are paying for space but others upload far too many useless (to us) photos. We get around that in
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LeeAnne
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
applies; but that's a subtlety where a lawyer might have a field day. Our group is public, in that anyone can join and read messages. messages after the transfer. Or if there's too many of them
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Noel Leaver
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
the transfer, perhaps without advance notice, then make the announcement in the Yahoo group and shut off all posting and make it announcement only right away. We have already moved the group without
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Noel Leaver
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#1904
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Re: Control over Photo section
is on the to-do list: While I agree full moderation of loading photos is an enhancement not a bug, I think that in its absence it the correct behaviour is to prevent moderated users from loading
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Noel Leaver
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#1903
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Re: Control over Photo section
Noel, I don't think it is so much a bug as something that hasn't been done. It is on the to-do list:
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Shal Farley
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#1902
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Donald, I was thinking of that even as I wrote my message. The only reason I hesitate is that there were (thankfully few) cases reported in the Yahoo mod groups of a moderator being either confused or
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Shal Farley
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#1901
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Hi Shal and Sarah, There is a minor glitch in that the downloaded messages do not contain their message numbers in an obvious way. However, in the worst case there is a simple URL that allows someone
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David Andrews
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#1900
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Shal, "Where there is great power there is great responsibility . . ." Winston Churchill, 1906 Donald wrote: The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. --George
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Donald Hellen
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#1899
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Noel . . . <n.leaver@...> wrote: I think he is incorrect but at the very worst Mark would handle the DMCA request for you. Yahoo's stand was that the user had to delete his own posts, and
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Donald Hellen
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#1898
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Duane, The procedures are somewhat up to the hosting site to establish. Groups.io's are specified in the TOS: /static/tos Of note is the requirement: o a description of where the
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Shal Farley
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#1897
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Related to Duane's comment, I don't even think he'd have a case for a DCMA take down request if the material had not been published. I think 'published' implies making the material *public*, as in,
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#1896
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Hmm, how would he know they'd been transferred if he didn't join? I believe he would have to give an exact location of (link to) the "offending" material before he could request a DMCA action. And as
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Duane
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#1895
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Noel, Technically he's right that it isn't his job to delete them. However I think at that point I might have shrugged and let him file the request. I would also, as a courtesy to Mark, let him know
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Shal Farley
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#1894
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Re: Transfer of files Qu from yahoo
Members prefer the io software to Yahoo. 130 have joined from the old group so far, I suspect there were in fact only about 3-400 of the 3000 nominal members who were still interested. We hope to get
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Noel Leaver
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#1893
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