On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:11 PM, Janie wrote:

1) THE FAILURE of "ANNOUNCEMENT GROUP ONLY" TO STOP ALL POSTS FOR TWO DAYS TO GIVE MODERATORS THEIR WEEKLY BREAK: Yesterday, in the middle of the two day moderator/admin break, I found out about setting the group to Announcement Group only to stop posts. YET six posts have appeared this morning BEFORE I undid the Announcement group only. Why??

Have you checked the activity in Admin?

2) BEING UNABLE TO GIVE A MODERATOR/ADMIN THE POWER TO CLOSE POSTINGS FOR TWO DAYS: ?It looks like I, as owner, am the only one who can make it an Announcement group only on one evening, then I, as owner, am the only one who can undo the Announcement only designation (if it only worked!!). ?Where can I give this ability to one of my moderators as was done in the Yahoo group? (and why didn't it work in the first place?)

Have you given your moderators the power to modify group settings?

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Promotion%2C-Status-or-Permissions-Change-to-Moderator-or-Owner

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On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:36 PM, Frances wrote:

Please check permissions for moderators to make sure they get Owner Emails. They should get them in their email.

Sorry, I should've said "all messages", not just from members.

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On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:11 PM, Janie wrote:

3) A MODERATOR/ADMIN BEING U|NABLE TO SEE THE THREE QUESTIONS WE HAVE SET UP FOR NEW MEMBER REQUESTS: ? I get emails showing the answers to the three questions. Yet I have a moderator designated to approve members as she did in the Yahoo group. Am I, as owner, forced to be the only one to see the answers to these questions? ?Thus, I'm also forced to forward them to my moderator who was always the one to approve members in the Yahoo group?

Please check permissions for moderators to make sure they get Owner Emails. They should get them in their email.

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Owner-emails

?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Screening-New-Members-Using-the-Pending-Subscription-Notice

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1) THE FAILURE of "ANNOUNCEMENT GROUP ONLY" TO STOP ALL POSTS FOR TWO DAYS TO GIVE MODERATORS THEIR WEEKLY BREAK: Yesterday, in the middle of the two day moderator/admin break, I found out about setting the group to Announcement Group only to stop posts. YET six posts have appeared this morning BEFORE I undid the Announcement group only. Why??

2) BEING UNABLE TO GIVE A MODERATOR/ADMIN THE POWER TO CLOSE POSTINGS FOR TWO DAYS: ?It looks like I, as owner, am the only one who can make it an Announcement group only on one evening, then I, as owner, am the only one who can undo the Announcement only designation (if it only worked!!). ?Where can I give this ability to one of my moderators as was done in the Yahoo group? (and why didn't it work in the first place?)

3) A MODERATOR/ADMIN BEING U|NABLE TO SEE THE THREE QUESTIONS WE HAVE SET UP FOR NEW MEMBER REQUESTS: ? I get emails showing the answers to the three questions. Yet I have a moderator designated to approve members as she did in the Yahoo group. Am I, as owner, forced to be the only one to see the answers to these questions? ?Thus, I'm also forced to forward them to my moderator who was always the one to approve members in the Yahoo group?

Okay, found it on Yahoo's site:

Beginning October 28, new content won't be able to be uploaded to the site, and all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed after December 14. We will continue to process requests to download your content as long as they are submitted by January 31, 2020.?

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See this in Slate about the extension:



PC Magazine reports - "Verizon still plans on shutting down Yahoo Groups on Dec. 15 as a discussion board site. However, the company is going to extend the deadline for users to download content from their pages to Jan. 31, 2020. "Individual Groups users can use this tool to download any content he or she posted on Yahoo Groups," the company said in an email."

That gives you time to use getmydata -?

That download creates a download in mbox format. A couple of options then.
See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Moving-to-Groups.io

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You (or rather groups.io) may be falling foul of some dodgy results caching somewhere down the line. The DNS system relies very heavily on both servers and clients caching the results of lookups, although in principle negative results (such as this one) should only be cached for a short period, if at all. But it only takes one misconfiguration to cause pain.

Somewhere upstream of group.io's server lb01.groups.io, someone is saying?authoritatively that there is no PTR record for 209.242.224.96 (even though we know there is). Either lb01.groups.io is caching that negative response far longer than is necessary, or probably the upstream server isn't rechecking. Until the upstream server corrects its mistake, lb01.groups.io won't know.?

If you haven't already, drop a note to [email protected]?- they'll need to kick their DNS provider...

Mark promptly addressed this and just sent me a note he would increase the timeout for reverse DNS lookups and to keep an eye out for errors. This may just be the solution, and would make a lot of sense why it is a random error due to the?inherent delay in the ever growing entanglement of the world wide web. We'll see and I'll report back after giving it a bit of a chance to work.

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I am writing Support right now. ?All my members can see the member list since I made it visible to all members.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 04:52 PM, D&J Edgar wrote:

I think my group is in limbo now since the owner has no control, unless someone at Groups.io can fix the error. Just fix the .net to .com on my address or confirm my error email address so I can sign in.

Definitely your best (only?) option. Admit your foul - up and see what happens. Go to [email protected] and throw yourself at Mark's mercy; it may not be the first time something like this has happened, and it certainly won't be the first time that someone has inadvertently done something unrecoverable in error. Please let us know the outcome.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Chris

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 10:52 AM, D&J Edgar wrote:

I already have a second account (but not as an owner). I therefore can go in and see the group site and see myself as an owner.

That would be at least a moderator account or you wouldn't see the Member list.? Is this a paid group?? If so, you may be able to change the email address for the owner account.? If it's a free group, you'll need to contact [email protected] to fix it.? I'd contact them anyway to see why this happened since the new email address isn't supposed to be effective until it's confirmed.? It's also supposed to send a notice to the old address,

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I already have a second account (but not as an owner). I therefore can go in and see the group site and see myself as an owner. However my owner listing has a NC (Not Confirmed) by it since the address has the wrong domain and therefore I never could have received or have seen the confirmation email. I also cannot sign in with the error email account since it I get the message that email is not verified and thus cannot get in and change it or make my second account an owner.

I think my group is in limbo now since the owner has no control, unless someone at Groups.io can fix the error. Just fix the .net to .com on my address or confirm my error email address so I can sign in. I should have never done the address change when I was so tired. What a mess. Always though of having a second owner but never got to it.

Worse yet, there is no way I can see to even delete the group and start over or even start a new group since the name is already taken. Have 68 subscribers so while not convenient, certainly could.

David

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 01:17 PM, Robert Kingett wrote:

anyone here, who codes, could we discuss about taking that code in the promote tab and making it wordpress.com friendly?

IANAL but that idea might be in contravention of Terms of Service / Intellectual Property Rights / Service Content, Software and Trademarks.

It might be better to check with Mark first.

Chris

In Admin, Settings, Cover Photo button.

See #4, 3) of this wiki page for a few details.
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation
There also has been recent discussion here about adding colour banners on each side of a square image.

Frances

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On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 03:58 PM, <wscotstrut@...> wrote:

I can't find in the help how to change the image on the front page

Click on Settings tab at the LHS of your web UI; close to the top of the page (a little bit left of centre) there will be a blue tab called Settings; two tabs to the right of it is a grey tab called Cover Photo; click on it. What follows should be more or less obvious. :)

Chris

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On Dec 10, 2019, at 10:17 AM, Sandi D. <sandi.asgtechie@...> wrote:

As a future safeguard, if you are the owner, it may behoove you to create an email alias for yourself and give that alias owner privileges.

Just a point. Groups.io allows you to create an email alias for your account. You can email from that account to your group. You can’t log into your account from the alias.

So create another account for yourself with a different email address as a backup.

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On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 03:17 PM, Sandi D. wrote:

it may behoove you to create an email alias for yourself and give that alias owner privileges.

Not sure about that. An email alias is just a different address from which a member can post to a group; it isn't a second membership as such.

Now setting up a second membership... that's fine!

Chris