On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 09:06 AM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

This is something of a stab in the dark, but you may be set up to only receive emails from topics that you follow in this group. If you haven't followed any, that will effectively turn off message delivery. Click Subscription and on the resulting page click Advanced Preferences. Make sure "All Messages" is selected in this block, and save.

Pat -- I should also mention that you have to be logged in under your ComCast address for any subscription changes to work. Pull down your name in the menu at upper right...if it doesn't show your ComCast address, you're logged into the wrong account. Log out and then log back in using the correct one.

Bruce

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 08:56 AM, Susan B wrote:

The last thing I’d want to do is make them feel bad, like they didn’t do their homework, if they post here.?

And my post with links wasn't meant to do that!?

Frances
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 08:57 AM, Pat Long wrote:

I am getting digests for one group to the comcast email. For the other group I am getting all the owner stuff (approvals, notifications), but no messages. They are not in spam, not in junk, I have checked the Comcast folders and the Outlook folders. I’ve tried dropping and re-joining. I’ve tried switching to individual messages, plain and formatted digests. I’m at a loss here!

Pat -- This is something of a stab in the dark, but you may be set up to only receive emails from topics that you follow in this group. If you haven't followed any, that will effectively turn off message delivery. Click Subscription and on the resulting page click Advanced Preferences. Make sure "All Messages" is selected in this block, and save.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

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Peter

Here are some tools:

/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/home

/static/help

Transferring:

Overview and pointer to info sources:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/FAQ-on-Moving-from-Yahoo-Groups

And of course - the search box -?/g/GroupManagersForum/topics

Frances
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With the huge transfers from you know who, as an owner of an existing group, may I make a plea.
Before sending lot’s of ‘help questions’ please make sure that you have thorough checked the various on-line help, the GMF and Wiki has lots of help and advice.?

I make this plea to help Bruce et al?
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This happened to a Yahoo group that I was a member of about two years ago.? The original group disappeared one day, so the owners created another group with the same name but the number 2 after it.? Many of the members found it when trying to search for the old group and migrated there.? The people who knew email addresses of other members sent out messages to those members as well to tell them of the change.? It wasn't a perfect fix, and many of the original members were lost but at least the group lived on in a new form.? The owners of the old group contacted Yahoo at the time and never got any answers.? The old group was never restored so all of the old, important messages were lost.? About a year ago the group was moved over to Groups.io due to all of the challenges with Yahoo and we have never regretted it.
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On 13 Nov 2019 10:55, Bruce Bowman wrote:

"Send monthly to special?- this box appears only if "Sent monthly to the group" has been checked."

Confirmed.

Samuel

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 02:38 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:

I disagree. It is my understanding that there is nothing in the rules for free groups that prohibit free groups from asking for donations.

Quite correct!? Thanks for catching that.? I was looking at it from the perspective of using the Donations page as opposed to simply asking for donations.

It's even fine to require people to be members of a dues collecting club before they can join the group.? Not too difficult for a small club (like mine), but could easily get very time consuming with a larger one.

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On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 04:54 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:

Here's what I can see (attached).

This happens to both my free and my premium groups, regardless of whether there are members who are subscribed with "Special Notices Only" or not.

Samuel -- From the system Help:

"Send monthly to special?- this box appears only if "Sent monthly to the group" has been checked."

Bruce

On 13 Nov 2019 10:39, Bruce Bowman wrote:

See the attached screenshot. If the same checkbox isn't appearing on your end, I have no explanation, and will have to give that some more thought.

Here's what I can see (attached).

This happens to both my free and my premium groups, regardless of whether there are members who are subscribed with "Special Notices Only" or not.

Samuel

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 04:35 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:

There is no option to eioher include or not include Special Notices Only members.

Samuel -- See the attached screenshot. If the same checkbox isn't appearing on your end, I have no explanation, and will have to give that some more thought.

Bruce

On 13 Nov 2019 10:13, Bruce Bowman wrote:

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 04:10 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:

...but I don't see the option to include Special Notices Only
members. Where is that option set up?

If you open a member notice of type Group Guidelines, you should find a checkbox to that effect just above the editor.

The only options that I see are:

Notice Type (dropdown list)
Name (fill-in field)
Subject (fill-in field)
Email Subject (fill-in field)
Private (checkbox)
Send on join (checkbox)
Send monthly to group (checkbox)

There is no option to eioher include or not include Special Notices Only members.

Samuel

On 13 Nov 2019 10:05, Bruce Bowman wrote:

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 03:38 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:

Aren't one allowed to put a PayPal donation button and other donation
services' (e.g. certain crowdfunding platforms) buttons/links on the
group's home page?

Regular PayPal buttons are rendered as an html form. Forms, iframes and similar constructs are stripped by the groups.io editor before save.

That is true -- a real PayPal button is not an option, but some other payment systems' buttons do work.

For example, the Liberapay button is just an image with a hyperlink that links directly to the donations page on Libera. (People who want to donate, do have to register with Liberapay, though.) Liberapay's hyperlink is in the form , so you can add that to a plaintext footer too.

[Liberapay is only for recurring payments (but you can cancel a recurring payment after one payment). To receive donations using Liberapay, one needs to connect to either PayPal or Stripe. (I don't know what is needed to donate using Liberapay.)]

Crowdfunder.co.uk's donation link is in the format , so you can take any self-made button and put the donation link as a hyperlink on the button. With Crowdfunder.co.uk, people can donate anonymously but they don't have to.

Samuel

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 04:20 AM, CVActor wrote:

I have some 17,000 messages to move from Yahoogroups to my Group.io group. I have moved everything else myself manually, since I don't have $220 to spare :-). Is there any way to just get the messages downloaded and then uploaded myself to my list?

Cindi -- With the proper tools, you can download them just fine; but the upload part is problematical.

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/FAQ-on-Moving-from-Yahoo-Groups, section 10b.

Bruce

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 04:10 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:

- Can be sent automatically on the first of each month as
a message to the group, with an option to include members
subscribed via Special Notices Only
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...but I don't see the option to include Special Notices Only members. Where is that option set up?

Samuel -- If you open a member notice of type Group Guidelines, you should find a checkbox to that effect just above the editor. Member notices of other types cannot be scheduled.

Regards,
Bruce

Hello

On the GMF wiki page about "Member Notices", it says:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Member-Notices

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- Can be sent automatically on the first of each month as
a message to the group, with an option to include members
subscribed via Special Notices Only
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...but I don't see the option to include Special Notices Only members. Where is that option set up?

Samuel