I have done this with a group of 250+ members to a paid group. Not sure if there is a limit per day.

MKR

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 06:10 AM, Larry McDavid wrote:

I'm not sure of the maximum number of invites you can have per day at groups.io so it may be necessary to break up the saved Notepad file into smaller separate files to meet the groups.io limitation.

You'll run into a "limit" after 20 invitations (or direct adds on a paid group) per day.? The best thing to do is send them all at once.? There will be a delay until it's approved, but then all should be done at once.

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This request came from YGOG but it and the reply below may be of general interest here.

Larry


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Subject: Re: [YGOG] Instructions on how to transfer memberlist< maybe this will help>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 23:28:44 -0700
From: Larry McDavid <lmcdavid@...>
To: yahoo_group_of_groups@...

I have not yet done this myself but I believe I understand how to do it.

You did the correct thing by using the Yahoo Groups Export members in CVS. Note that only Owners and Moderators can do this.

Now, take that saved file and import it into Excel. The file will have a csv file extension in the file name. Use the Excel Open function and first change the File Type to All Files. Find the membership.csv file where you saved it, select that file name and Open it in Excel. That will open a new worksheet and enter all the columns and rows you exported from Yahoo. For clarity, widen the columns so you can see all the complete email addresses.

That will get you a worksheet with multiple columns, one for each data field and a row for each member.

Select (highlight) the *data* in the email address column and Copy it to the clipboard. Don't copy the column header if there is one.

Open Notepad, or some other text-only editor, and paste in the copied column.

You might need to manually format it so that each email address is on just one line.

Save that Notepad file. This will ensure there are no formatting characters in the saved file, which will be a .txt file. Highlight the entire document now consisting of only email addresses and Save it to the clipboard. I believe you can paste that into the Invite box of your Group at groups.io.

I'm not sure of the maximum number of invites you can have per day at groups.io so it may be necessary to break up the saved Notepad file into smaller separate files to meet the groups.io limitation.

I have successfully done all this except actually pasting the copied Notepad data into the groups.io invite form.

Gosh, I hope this is all correct! I believe it is...

Larry

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On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 04:41 AM, David C. Partridge wrote:

How do I totally disable the use of hashtags?

You can't totally disable them.? There are some used by the system for the Calendar (and other things).? To prevent other hashtags from being created, go to your Settings page and scroll down to Message Policies.? In the box labeled Hashtag Permissions, choose the second or third option in the drop down list.? Be sure to save your changes at the bottom of the page.? As long as you don't create any hashtags, none can be used.? One item that may cause problems for people is if they happen to use the octothorpe in a subject line, such as "Test #23".? You can get around that by leaving a space "Test # 23".

As another option, you could create all the system tags and set their properties to Moderated.? That way they should end up in the pending queue and you could remove the hashtag before it's posted.? There's some discussion about this in /g/GroupManagersForum/topic/33101928

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I just realised that I did not mention these three points:
1. Yahoogroups will munge e-mail addresses to e.g. yourname@..., so you won't be able to see the domains, even if you're the group owner.
2. The process breaks threading (and for some reason tells e.g. Thunderbird that some messages are part of a thread when they're not).
3. AFAIK attachments don't get included.

I don't want my group's message subjects cluttered with these bandwidth wasting pieces of nonsense - they may have a place on Twitter, but not here IMHO

How do I totally disable the use of hashtags?

PS Don't try to persaude me they're wonderful - you won't

Thanks
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Many thanks, that’s really welcome, I too thought 20% was rather HIGH!

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 02:08 AM, Peter Tucker wrote:

Where did you see 5%??

It's in the thread on beta,

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?On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 01:34 AM, Laura aka Rainee Dae wrote:

there was a way to make or receive donations

It's for receiving donations from members.? You probably saw it on the Pricing page, /static/pricing? There a few more details in the thread at ? Note that the fee was reduced from 20% to 5%.

That’s interesting on the introductory Beta page it still says 20%. Where did you see 5%??

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 01:34 AM, Laura aka Rainee Dae wrote:

there was a way to make or receive donations

It's for receiving donations from members.? You probably saw it on the Pricing page, /static/pricing? There a few more details in the thread at ? Note that the fee was reduced from 20% to 5%.

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On Oct 18, 2019, at 11:32 PM, Michael Chopra <michaelchopra38@...> wrote:

Hey all. I was wondering if I had to send the welcome message after someone accepts an invitation to join my group or is it done automatically?

There is a generic Welcome message that is sent out automatically.

You can also set up a Welcome message Member Notice that will be sent out automatically if you checked the box next to "Active Message"

I am on a committee n the process of investigating transferring a couple of nonprofit groups over to groups.io from Y!G.? I'm doing prelim set-up and testing but am not super tech-savvy.? Before I set up a groups.io account, I thought I read somewhere in the list of available premium membership features, that there was a way to make or receive donations.? At least that's what I thought it was saying, however now that I have an account I can't find that particular list of features.? ?It's not a feature that Y!G has - or at least not in the free version that we've been using, but I thought that would be a definite plus for upgrading to premium.? Please advise.? Thank you.

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 12:17 AM, Mister Andersen wrote:

It's the message archives that are my main concern.

At present, a paid transfer seems to be the only option to do that.? If the groups are related, you could consider making a parent group, then subgroups for the others.? (You could actually do this with totally unrelated groups, but it could be very confusing.)? You could transfer the parent group from one YG!, then transfer the other YG!s into subgroups under the same paid plan.??? The charge is for each parent group and isn't applied to any subgroups.? There are many things to consider when using subgroups.

As has been mentioned before, you could use one of the available methods to download the messages yourself, then create a PDF from that to load into the Files area.? Not a great option, but costs nothing.? The biggest concern would be how much space the file(s) would take toward the storage limit.

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:27 PM, James Sadilek wrote:

It appears these messages are sent to me only

Each owner has to select which of those type messages they wish to receive, or another owner can select for them.? For yourself, go to the Subscription page and scroll down to Notifications to make the selection.? Be sure to click Save at the bottom of the page after making changes.? For another owner, the changes are made in their membership record.

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:02 PM, <sarahseventytwo@...> wrote:

Group Settings - the first four have cute icons, but the last three have a circle with a slash, which I assume is can't be done.

You've assumed incorrectly.? What it says on the Home Page appears to be correct according to what you said earlier.? The slashed icon doesn't mean it can't be done, it's just the icon that was chosen.

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Attachments don't get transferred.

Groups.io can transfer message archives (without attachments, however), photos, files, links and databases. Calendar entries are not copied at this time. Subscribers (members) are also transferred, maintaining ownership of each message and other group content.

Source:?
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Subgroups - no dashboard that I know of. You can see a feed of latest posts by going to Your Groups, Manage My Subscriptions.

Frances

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To avoid the fee, you can create a new io group and do the "transfer" yourself,
inviting members to join or else just sending a message with instructions on how to join.
Users can ask to subscribe on the web site? /g/[yourgroupname]
or by sending an email to [yourgroupname][email protected]

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I saw this in the FAQ, but it didn’t really answer my concern.?

4. What gets transferred using the Transfer Agent?

Your messages and most other accessible YahooGroup content are transferred to your Groups.io group.?