On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 06:00 PM, Alex Maddocks wrote:

I just need the license key... you can't just buy one off of his web page, you have to message him and then he sends you a invoice via Paypal
Tried BOTH emails... nothing in over a week.
Trying again from a different email account
/sigh

Alex,

Maybe you can track him down in their forum...


I see Wilson has been active their recently. The forum also provides Personal Messagers (PM).

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Gerald

Slowly but surely we will all get there. I am at the 744 groups ahead of me. I'm OK with that. At least it will happen!?
Susan

Yes, thanks Bruce and Duane. David. *what*?? LOL It went right over me. I think I will just leave my settings as they are. I mean if people want to use them, knock yourself out. I just left it on the messages can be tagged with new hashtags.
Thank you!!

Susan

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 09:53 PM, M K Ramadoss wrote:

Have you tried the exact email address in the Members search box?

That isn't strictly necessary, or shouldn't be.? Just a "partial" of the address before the @ will find any match. (It will also work on addresses that have something personal after the @ but they are less common.)

I get the feeling that the original query was posed after a search on "Pending" members didn't produce any results; as Duane pointed out the search needs to be done on "Members".

Chris

Well, there doesn't need to be ONE correct one. The person will probably want to include them all.

[Mod Note: This appears to be in reference to:?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/22312, paragraph 2]

On 11/4/2019 4:37 PM, Alex Maddocks wrote:

Also that Chrome app is DOA and no longer works :(

I used it last week.

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Bill

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 12:43 PM, Frances wrote:

/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/FAQ-on-Moving-from-Yahoo-Groups

I'll check on that. The person in charge of my Yahoo group is looking at getting someone else to do it and told me just drop it.

I just need the license key... you can't just buy one off of his web page, you have to message him and then he sends you a invoice via Paypal
Tried BOTH emails... nothing in over a week.
Trying again from a different email account
/sigh

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 04:53 PM, <lisa.reiner@...> wrote:

1.?I am happy to see we can transfer the archive of old message postings from YahooGroups to io.groups as part of the migration. ?I also see we can download the (newly) transferred archive. ?What form/format is that in when I download it? ?How can it be read?

Lisa -- The archive is exported in mbox format. It is readable using any text editor, but not is very friendly. I believe you can open it in Thunderbird and a few other desktop email clients, but have not actually tried it.

2. ?If our ?io,groups members want to just use the service to send from and receive in their email program, is that possible, or do users have to use the web interface?

If all you want to do is communicate by email, it is not necessary to ever log into the groups.io web interface.

3. ?If we use the io.groups migration service year one, I understand the annual fee is $220. ?Then can we go back to free in subsequent years?

Yes, assuming that after that one-year period your group storage remains under the 1GB allocation available to Basic groups. Otherwise at that point you will find yourself unable to upload any further such content to the group.

Regards,
Bruce

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Susan:

Here's my take on hashtags. They are a way to categorize relevant posts and help elevate them to viewers. While?viewers could do a search of all the posts—depending on the word or phrase—they could end up pulling up a lot of irrelevant results.?

Another feature of hashtags is you can designate aliases and point them to the primary hashtag.?

This can be very useful with acronyms.? I don't know what focus your group has, but with mine (use of keywords and other embedded photo metadata for images) there are lots of acronyms.?

I've been designating hashtags, but haven't given the members permission to do this... yet. I'm considering, which is why I asked if this was limited to a plan, as I didn't want to get invested if I was going to have to drop this feature later.?

Does that help?

David

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 04:32 PM, Susan Pitlock wrote:

I am not a hashtag user. Can someone explain what the purpose is and is it necessary for a chat list? If so why?

Susan -- Hashtags are not really necessary, but?there are some features that can only be fully implemented by means of hashtags.

Here are some of the uses I've found for them:
-- Make a topic expire and automatically be deleted from the message archive (or locked) after a certain time period
-- Force an override of the usual group reply-to setting on a topic so that all replies come directly to me instead of the group
-- Force an override of the group moderation setting so all replies go through moderation
-- Highlight messages that relate to groups.io administrative functions (i.e.: that aren't related to the normal flow of conversation)

They can be powerful, but there's also much opportunity for abuse...the most annoying being when subscribers rely solely on hashtags as a?replacement?for providing a relevant subject line for their posts. Therein lies madness, at least from where I stand.

For this reason I have my group set up to allow only predefined hashtags that provide desired functions, and do not allow subscribers to create them. Unfortunately, you cannot turn hashtags completely off -- the system hashtags will continue to appear on notifications for any enabled feature that generates them.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

I paid for our Premium upgrade last Friday, I think, and were about 1050.? Sunday we were 1157 (ish) and right now we are 1105.?
It's been going up and down - I guess new groups are paying the extra $200:/

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 03:32 PM, Susan Pitlock wrote:

I am not a hashtag user. Can someone explain what the purpose is and is it necessary for a chat list?

You probably won't have any use for them then.? If you use the Calendar or Poll features, a few will be created by the system.? You can read about them at:
/static/help#hashtags
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Creating-Hashtags

Duane
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Help: /static/help
GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki
Search button at the top of Messages list
A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions

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Alex:

If?info@... didn't work, did you try?wilson@...?

From my interactions, I'm guessing this is a one-person operation, so it's possible he might be traveling, etc. Or he might be innundated with questions, giving the changes going over at Yahoo (creating an increase in interest).?

What questions did you have? There has been a lot of talk on this forum, so most of your concerns may have already been addressed.?

I had one issue when first launching, and got a response within 24 hours.?

Given the 14 day trial period, and the following note reported here on this forum, I'd say download and kick the tires:

"Something you should also consider is that PGO will not hold your data hostage. When the trial expires you will still be able to read, sort & search your messages as usual. You will not be able to download any new messages but that doesn't sound like it's going to be an issue for your group. All your group members can download PGO, import your edited archive and then use PGO indefinitely for free."

HTH

David

Also that Chrome app is DOA and no longer works :(