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Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
Sarah,
Why? I see no point to doing that. I don't buy the idea that it somehow deprives Verizon/Oath of income, and even if I did I have no interest in doing so - that would mostly punish other users who for whatever reason still use that platform. Whereas I do see value in having the old groups stand as "we've moved" signs. I've left all the content and membership in place, but have turned off members' ability to post new web content, and moderated all messages so that I can re-direct the sender to the new groups here. Shal |
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Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
I migrated my group from Yahoo to Groups.io a little over a year ago.
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The Yahoo group still sits there, but any new subscribers are referred to groups.io.? At some point it will be closed but for now to appease the group members it remains open.? There are no new members allowed there or new postings.
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We have found groups.io much easier to use, as well as more user friendly.? As far as user support, Mark does an excellent job.? I would never want to return to Yahoo Groups.
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Best Regards,
Doug
On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 1:59 PM, Sarah k Alawami <marrie12@...> wrote:
I would ask everyone to remove their yahoo email and groups. I mean once all the archives and stuff are transferred?over. I did this with one of the groups I ran. I removed every trace of it off the other place, gave people a month to switch over, if they did not, they lost their chance. Of corse they could always resubscribe the normal way once they come across the group either through the invite I sent or through word of mouth.. [Excess quote trimmed by moderator] ?
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Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI would ask everyone to remove their yahoo email and groups. I mean once all the archives and stuff are transferred?over. I did this with one of the groups I ran. I removed every trace of it off the other place, gave people a month to switch over, if they did not, they lost their chance. Of corse they could always resubscribe the normal way once they come across the group either through the invite I sent or through word of mouth..
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Re: invite list has to be approved?
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI believe so. I sent out 300 envites, the thing had to approve all of the invite list and send it to the valid email addresses.Take care
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invite list has to be approved?
I am moving a list from yahoo groups to groups.io.? Rather than migrating the list, which would create a different set of problems, we set up the group here, and sent an invite email to users of the old list, using the invite function and a text file.? I uploaded the text file and got this message:
Once your invites have been approved, they will be sent out. You will receive a notification when this happens. I am wondering, approved by whom? I have not seen this message before when sending out invites. Does this mean that someone at groups.io has to look at the invite list before the invites go out? If so, does the number of emails in an invite list trigger this review? Does anyone know how long this takes? Thanks, Bill |
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Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
Duane, I know some plan to keep the Y! groups in place for awhile, if nothing more than an archive or pointer to io, Yup. A "we've moved" sign for anyone that comes across them. but will you eventually delete them?? Will you ask your members to delete their Y! accounts if possible? No and no. In fact I'll try to remember to keep my accounts active so that I can continue to "reject with reply" anyone who happens to post in those groups. Shal |
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Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýWhen I set up our new group in groups.io, I devised a plan to attrition the Yahoo group and discussed with my co-moderator. Our plan was to eventually make our Yahoo group still open but inactive. I sent an email announcement to our Yahoo group with our plan, giving them sufficient time to set up an account on groups.io and joining our group. We don't plan to close our Yahoo group but just let it sit there, in case we need to go back to refer to old posts. There is nothing there in our Yahoo group that is THAT important to keep. I have our member list downloaded and any files that we have I have maintained myself. I wanted to post the announcement on the Yahoo banner of our home page regarding our move to groups.io, but with the neo have been unable to make any banner or home photo adjustments. Makes me even more grateful of our move to groups.io and wish we had done it much, much earlier.-----
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On 12/13/2017 3:33 AM, Duane wrote:
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Re: What will you do with your Y! Groups?
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýOur groups are still up because pointers from other places out of our control send folks to the yahoo groups .. more people know about yahoo groups so if they sign up there we can still message them ?and point them to the right place to sign up. Rachel On Dec 13, 2017, at 3:33 AM, Duane <txpigeon@...> wrote:
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What will you do with your Y! Groups?
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:50 pm, J_Catlady wrote:
I'm glad I'm outta there!This reminded me of a question I've been wondering about.? For those that move to Groups.io, what will you do with your Y! Groups?? When the neo fiasco happened, I immediately looked for a refuge.? After I got set up on io, I asked all members that could/would to delete their Y! accounts, then deleted the groups that came with me.? I figured the fewer groups and members, the less revenue would be generated to support Y!.? They used to tout the huge number of groups and members in their advertising, but I'm not sure if they still do.? Of course, that included all the dormant groups and spam havens.? Probably a bit like jousting with windmills, but... I know some plan to keep the Y! groups in place for awhile, if nothing more than an archive or pointer to io, but will you eventually delete them?? Will you ask your members to delete their Y! accounts if possible? Duane |
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Re: in reviewing the transfer instructions
J,
Watching yahoo groups blow up ...Reports vary widely. Some users/groups have apparently been unaffected by recent outages while others severely so. Panic about the sinking of Yahoo Groups has been a recurring theme through the years. But as the fellow in Monty Python and the Holy Grail said: "I'm not dead yet." Shal |
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Re: in reviewing the transfer instructions
In my experience the EMAIL route to invite/join is broken. The invited
member does receive the email but if they just reply to that nothing else happens and they are not subscribed. But if they click the link in that email which takes them to the group home page they can then complete the subscription. Groups.io presumably does that - remember they know all the ins and outs of yahoogroups. Whatever, invites for [email protected] clearly do work, many of us have done that recently. Dave On 12 Dec 2017 at 21:06, Ruth Levi wrote: i am able to promote members to moderator status(that feature was |
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Re: Reply to Message
NYILLogistics,
How do you set the reply to message only to the Sender ?As a matter of group policy, go to the Settings page and in the "Message Policies" section set the "Reply To" option to "Sender". If you're talking about replying to an individual message it does depend on the group policy (as above) and whether you're replying via the group's Messages section or via your email interface. Assuming the group is set to "Group", and replying via the Messages section, click Reply then look below the reply composition box and to the right. Click the "Private" button. That will change the green "Reply to Group" button to a blue "Reply to Sender" button. When you're ready to send your reply click that blue button. Assuming the group is set to "Group", and replying via your email interface, the details may depend on what email interface you're using. In Thunderbird, for example, I would copy your address in the From field of your message, click reply, then paste your address into the To field of my reply, replacing the group's address. Because your email address is modified for DMARC, I then have to delete the "@groups.io" part and replace the = sign with an @ sign. That is, convert: user = example.com @ groups.io into user @ example.com Shal |
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