Ellen, your group is not the only group experiencing this problem.
I have at least two groups that I know of that are having the same thing.
It started out Monday morning for me, the two groups that I see this happening on were still sending me
notices that there were messages to approve, as late as Monday morning, two days ago.
But, when I approved them, nothing went through the groups.
Now, as of yesterday morning, I am not receiving any notices of pending messages.
I attempted to send messages to the groups myself, again nothing.? No notices of pending messages and
nothing showing pending messages on the websites of the groups.
I attempted to post messages from the websites of the groups, again nothing.
I sent messages to the -owner addresses of both groups, again nothing.
The groups are normally quite active, so I am sure I have a lot of members who are seriously wondering
what has happened to all my moderators.
Marlin
On 11/22/2017 5:44 AM, Ellen Moody wrote:
I am wondering if anyone can help me and the people on my Women Writers through the Ages
listserv at Yahoo. We are now in the third day, more than 48 hours, of no messages coming into
or being sent from this listserv. I have tried all I can to? reach someone at Yahoo, but the
"help" material is not designed for me to reach anyone with power to help. None of the
suggestions made are pertinent as I am the listowner. I know to do all that is suggested:
refresh browser, clean cache.
Sincerely,
Ellen Moody

Ellen,

I am wondering if anyone can help me and the people on my Women
Writers through the Ages listserv at Yahoo.

You've posted about this problem in GMF's sister group at Yahoo, so hopefully you know from reading the other messages there that your group is not alone in having that problem recently.

I have tried all I can to reach someone at Yahoo, but the "help"
material is not designed for me to reach anyone with power to help.

And you should also know from the messages there that Yahoo's Customer Care no longer supports Yahoo Groups, and hasn't for some time. So the answer basically is that they'll either fix it or they won't.

The listserv is a small group of friends and we miss one another.

So, now that you've visited a group on Groups.io, a service that competes with Yahoo, perhaps the time is ripe for your group to jump ship, as all of my active groups have.

Come on in, the water's warm. We'll give you what advice we can on setting up your new group here and having your members and content copied over from Yahoo.
/static/transfer

Shal

Ellen
It may not have anything to do with Yahoo as it may simply be that no one is
interested in the group especially at this time of year and it does take awhile to
build up a group. I would suggest you redo the title and capitalize the W for writers
as Womenwriters does not look as good as Women Writers would. Also try to attach your
group URL to other groups comments section. Remember Advertise Advertise Advertise is
the only way.
Steve ?
On 22 November 2017 at 06:44, Ellen Moody <ellen.moody@...> wrote:
I am wondering if anyone can help me and the people on my Women Writers
through the Ages listserv at Yahoo. We are now in the third day, more
than 48 hours, of no messages coming into or being sent from this
listserv. I have tried all I can to? reach someone at Yahoo, but the
"help" material is not designed for me to reach anyone with power to
help. None of the suggestions made are pertinent as I am the listowner. I
know to do all that is suggested: refresh browser, clean cache.
Here is the URL of the listserv:

Here is the email:
WomenwritersThroughTheAges@...
The listserv is a small group of friends and we miss one another. It's
supportive and we read together and discuss books and movies by women.
Sincerely,
Ellen Moody

On Nov 22, 2017, at 6:44 AM, Ellen Moody <ellen.moody@...> wrote:

I am wondering if anyone can help me and the people on my Women Writers through the Ages listserv at Yahoo. We are now in the third day, more than 48 hours, of no messages coming into or being sent from this listserv. I have tried all I can to reach someone at Yahoo, but the "help" material is not designed for me to reach anyone with power to help. None of the suggestions made are pertinent as I am the listowner. I know to do all that is suggested: refresh browser, clean cache.

Here is the URL of the listserv:



Here is the email:

WomenwritersThroughTheAges@...

The listserv is a small group of friends and we miss one another. It's supportive and we read together and discuss books and movies by women.


Sincerely,
Ellen Moody

On Nov 21, 2017, at 1:27 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:

Richard,

... (unless there is a private messaging facility, which groups.io
sadly lacks ...

There is, sort-of, for a loose meaning of the word private.

If you click on Reply under a member's post there is a "Private" button over to the right. Clicking that will change a default "Reply to Group" into a "Reply to Sender".

A member can use that without knowledge of the other member's email address, but one caveat and one loophole:

1) The replying member's email address is exposed in the From field of the message sent to the original poster. Same as it would have been in a group message. With an anonymity feature I'd have to assume some other address would be there.

2) The loophole: if the replying member checks the "BCC me" box, the BCC they get will expose the original poster's email address in the To field. With an anonymity feature I think the BCC field would need to be used for both addressees, to avoid revealing the original poster's email address to the replying member.

... though I'd be very surprised if it hasn't been discussed
extensively before).

Right you are, it was extensively discussed in beta@.

Shal

On Nov 22, 2017, at 3:06 AM, newcastle.ramblers@... wrote:

Hello

I am looking to move several announcement groups from Yahoo to here. These are mostly e-mail announcement lists, with a couple as discussion groups.
The members of the groups are not particularly computer literate, so I am trying to make everything very simple for them, with the minimum of jargon and irrelevant options that confuse them.

I was pleased to see that most of 's messages can be customised. However, I have not been able to find a way to change the text at the bottom of every message:

Links:

You receive all messages sent to this group.

| Reply To Sender | Reply To Group | Mute This Topic |

Contact Group Owner
Terms Of Service

For announcement groups, all of these are irrelevant except:
Reply to Sender (and this is not really necessary as they can reply to the e-mail)
Unsubscribe from group
Contact group owner (perhaps - again, they could just reply to the e-mail)

Is there a way to change the text added to the bottom of messages?

A second question relates to accepting an invitation. There appear to be two options. One is to reply to the message. The other is to accept it on the web site.

On the web site, people are presented with a big page and lots of options. Most of my members would not have a clue what most of them mean, and would probably not click any of them out of confusion.

Is it possible to have a link which just adds them to the group with All Messages instead of giving them all these options.

Thanks

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On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 05:00 am, Richard L King wrote:

I'll add my wish list of things I'd like to see in groups.io related to this thread:

I think this is so comprehensive and straightforward that you should repeat this wishlist to the beta group, which is the place for new feature suggestions. Some of these have been discussed there ad infinitum and some are even on the Trello todo list. If you do that, I (and probably others) will comment there on the individual items. For example, #4 is something I broached long ago and I believe is on the Todo list. A version of #1 (which was going by the name of "Private Groups" for awhile in the beta group - you can search on it) was also discussed ad infinitum, and Mark was even working on implementing it as an option for enterprise groups at one point (except for the option for group owners not to have access to the info - doubt you would get very many takers there). Etc.
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J