On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:27 AM, Sam Hoskins wrote:

In Yahoo, if a new member wanted to join the group they had to include a little about themselves, so we knew they weren't spammers. How is this done in Groups.io?

Sam -- There is no "new user questionnaire" function in groups.io. But if you are using the Restricted Membership method of Spam Control, many owners use the Pending Subscription notice to poll prospective members for desired information prior to approving them.

As usual, there is more information on this in the GMF wiki. See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Screening-New-Members-Using-the-Pending-Subscription-Notice

Regards,
Bruce

In Yahoo, if a new member wanted to join the group they had to include a little about themselves, so we knew they weren't spammers. How is this done in Groups.io?

Thanks.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:56 AM, <anantz@...> wrote:

Yahoo says "Sorry, an error occurred while loading the content."? Does anyone else get this issue?

As Duane stated, you have to send an invitation...from your YAHOO group. If you've never done this before, instructions can be found at??

Having said that, it sometimes happens that Yahoo will throw the above-mentioned "ugly purple box error" when an invitation is attempted. Usually, the invitation has gone out anyway. Hmmm...are you glad you're leaving them yet?

To be sure, go back to the groups.io transfer page at?/yahootransfer. Pull down the Existing Transfers menu at bottom right and select the group that you're trying to transfer. A status bar should appear at the top of the resulting page. If it says something along the lines of "we have received your invitation and will accept it soon...", then everything is fine. If not, the invitation did not go out. Return to Yahoo and try again.

When the transfer agent accepts the invitation, groups.io will send you an email with further instructions.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

Sorry!? That's what I meant.? I tried to send [email protected] an invitation, and Yahoo gave me the error "Sorry, an error occurred while loading the content."

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 03:45 PM, Bob Miller wrote:

Is there an issue if they log into groups.io and change their email to one they regularly use? Is this even possible.

There shouldn't be. The route is as follows:

Log in to groups.io, then click on the "personal identifier" at the top right hand corner of the screen. Select Account, and at the top of the resulting page they will find their registered email address aliong with a button to edit it.

However, that email address is a Groups.io - wide Account setting, and will be applicable to all their groups listed under their log in; for a single log in only one email address is possible, although their Display Name can be different for different subsciptions (memberships)

For "chapter and verse" see the GMF wiki here, particularly these two sections: Logging In and Setting a Password and Profile and Email Address. The GMF wiki is publicly acessible so feel free to tell your members about them.

Chris

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:45 AM, Bob Miller wrote:

A number of our members had a Yahoo ID and a Yahoo email so that they could log onto and participate in the Yahoo!Groups site.

Bob -- One of the advantages of groups.io is that you don't need to have to set up a separate "account," just an email address.

Now that they are transferred to groups.io, their email in their profile is the Yahoo email. Is there an issue if they log into groups.io and change their email to one they regularly use? Is this even possible.

Yes. The process is fairly straightforward, but some folks seem to struggle with it anyway.

As you noted, they will first have to log in. It is possible to login without a password, using the "email me a link" method. However, I do recommend that all subscribers establish a login password eventually. More detailed login instructions can be found here:??/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Logging-In

Once logged in, go to your Account page. This can be done by pulling down the menu at top right and selecting Account, or simply browsing to?/account

The top box of your Account page should display the email address currently associated with your login. Type in your new email address, overwriting what is already there.

Click the "Change Email" button, and look for the?email that will be sent to the new email address. Click on the link in that email and you will be all set.

Please note that those having Premium groups are capable of changing the email address of subscribers for them. If you want instructions for that, let us know.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:56 AM, <anantz@...> wrote:

I tried to add [email protected] to my membership

You can't add it to the membership, you have to send an invitation.

Duane
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:45 AM, Bob Miller wrote:

Is there an issue if they log into groups.io and change their email to one they regularly use?

Shouldn't be any problem if they haven't used the "new" address to create an account.? If they've already created an account with the "new" address, the old one can be merged into it.
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Profile-and-Email-Address-and-Merging-Accounts

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I was excited to see that groups.io can move my Yahoo group over, but going through the steps, when I tried to invite [email protected] to my group, Yahoo says "Sorry, an error occurred while loading the content."? Does anyone else get this issue?

We just successfully converted over from Yahoo!Groups. The process was fairly quick. I was prepared for a week or more wait and it happened within one day.

Here is my question and I apologize if it has already been covered.

A number of our members had a Yahoo ID and a Yahoo email so that they could log onto and participate in the Yahoo!Groups site. Now that they are transferred to groups.io, their email in their profile is the Yahoo email. Is there an issue if they log into groups.io and change their email to one they regularly use? Is this even possible.

Thanks for any advice.

Bob

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:46 AM, Walter S. Arnold wrote:

The photos appear again this morning in Yahoo, since I no longer have any pending transfers I'm going to try again.

Walter -- Please note that before attempting a second transfer from the same group, you will first have to delete the completed one.

To do so, go to the Y!G transfer page, pull down the Existing Transfers menu to select the completed transfer, then click the red "Delete Completed Transfer" button.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 08:44 AM, Electronic Village Online wrote:

My group has been approved, but I cannot start a topic because it says the group needs to be approved.?

What do I do?

Approval of a new group involves review by groups.io support to ensure that the group adheres to the?Groups.io Terms of Service.

It can therefore take a few hours. Be patient and the issue will probably resolve itself.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

Hi,

I would not count on groups.io changing the timeout to two minutes.? Technically, it can be done but for each long-running transaction, it keeps resources locked for that period of time, proportionally reducing the number of available resources for well-behaved email servers.

I would also put forward that while you say?a general fix, implying that something is broken on the Groups side,?that in fact nothing is broken.? There is nothing to fix on the Groups side.? ?Not to sound churlish but that problem is with these other email servers.??

Cheers!
-pablo

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What tool did you use? I have a bunch of groups.?

On 2019-10-18 14:12, Bruce Bowman wrote:

lest it become a vector for someone looking to steal someone else's group.
Such abuse may seem unlikely, but it only has to happen once.

That's fair enough and more or less what I expected. No doubt if I were really keen I could get a custom domain and create dummy user ids, then create a script to repost all the messages as coming from the dummy ids, but the game doesn't seem worth the candle. Not to mention 70,000 posts in a short space of time! I may look at front ending the sqllite archive with something, but of course the little matter of copyright comes into play, since I'm unlikely to be able to contact all those posters to seek permission.

thanks for your time, Jim C

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 08:14 AM, Jim Champ wrote:

I have a Yahoo group to migrate with no Moderator or List owner - he's been uncontactable for a long time and is believed to be ill.

Jim -- This situation of no continuity plan is all too common.

I've managed, with another tool, to download the whole message base to a Sqllite database, but having only member access there are nearly no email or other details of the list members. Are there known to be any ways of getting the message base into groups.io??

Unfortunately, no.

Rumor has it that one or two people who were able to get their message base into Unix mbox format were able to get their messages into a message archive with help from support. That was a few years ago, and I believe Mark has since been reluctant to do this, lest it become a vector for someone looking to steal someone else's group.?

Such abuse may seem unlikely, but it only has to happen once.

I suggest you continue to try to contact the existing group owner and/or Yahoo support and get someone on that end to give your subscription the necessary privileges. In doing so, please consider the possibility that the original Owner does not want the group to continue in his absence .

Failing that, the fallback is to print whatever message archive you are able to salvage into one long PDF file and upload that to the files area.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

My group has been approved, but I cannot start a topic because it says the group needs to be approved.?

I have a Yahoo group to migrate with no Moderator or List owner - he's been uncontactable for a long time and is believed to be ill. I've managed, with another tool, to download the whole message base to a Sqllite database, but having only member access there are nearly no email or other details of the list members. Are there known to be any ways of getting the message base into groups.io? It seems clear that the standard transfer cannot work.

Jim C

Thanks for the answer. I will ask the support then, hoping it is an easy fix. I usually think that when one account reports a problem there are more. So hopefully more people will profit from a general fix.

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