I had thought that, if I disabled Editing Posts, it would not allow members to delete their own posts.? This doesn't seem to the case.?? Am I missing something?? Is there a way to prevent people from deleting posts?? I'd like the mods to be able to do it in case of spam that comes through, but hadn't wanted members to be able to do this.?? Thanks.? Janet Smith

One of my members accidentally marked her digest as spam. She’s on Yahoo. She says she unmarked it but is no longer gettting digests. How can we fix this?
Nancy

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It says it will be scaled to fit within 900 x 300 pixels.

What can the size of the Cover Photo be? Is there a max dimension for the Cover Photo?

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Shal . . .

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:11:09 -0800, "Shal Farley" <shals2nd@...>
wrote:

No sooner did I send that then Yahoo Groups came back for me (5:00 pm
PST, 2018-01-22 01:00 UTC).

I can now get to my groups, but the files sections of several groups
(I didn't try them all) list files but they're not accessible. Photos
shoed in one group, square blank placeholders in another, and in
another few no photos at all.

If they're trying to fix those sections, there's clearly more work to
do yet.

Donald

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who
speak it. --George Orwell

I wrote

*As of some time between 1:30 and 3:30pm pacific time (21:30 and 23:30
UTC) this afternoon I'm no longer able to access any content at Yahoo
Groups.

No sooner did I send that then Yahoo Groups came back for me (5:00 pm PST, 2018-01-22 01:00 UTC).

Shal
(Yay!)

groupmoderator3,

Is there a way to transfer all the data to a new groups.io group but
NOT run it yet, ie: not notify the members of the switch. Just let it
be ready. Then start it up when wanted/needed.

I believe you can (or could*) do that simply by requesting it when you give the "go" email to the transfer agent.

The difficulty with doing this though is that then you have a break in your message and other content: content posted to your Y!Group after the copy won't be automatically mirrored over to the Groups.io group; you'd have to impose on support to do that for you when you're finally ready.

Shal
*As of some time between 1:30 and 3:30pm pacific time (21:30 and 23:30 UTC) this afternoon I'm no longer able to access any content at Yahoo Groups. If the same is true of the transfer agent you may be out of luck until and unless Yahoo fixes Y!Groups.

Hi everyone. Sorry I am sure this has been addressed already but I couldn't find it in a search. We mods are getting increasingly scared by YG's failures... but the owner does not yet want to switch. Is there a way to transfer all the data to a new groups.io group but NOT run it yet, ie: not notify the members of the switch. Just let it be ready. Then start it up when wanted/needed.?

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 01:30 pm, J_Catlady wrote:

Mark takes the weekends off.

Well, he's SUPPOSED to, but we know how Mark is... ;>)

Duane

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 12:25 pm, Jan Winspear wrote:

I have been prevaricating for a couple of years

But truly, it's no lie that groups.io is great. :)
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J

Thank you Martyn - I have started the process on one of my groups so fingers crossed all is well - I have been prevaricating for a couple of years - just nervous!!! So now have taken the bull by the horns!!! I have some idea of the workings as I did set up a test group a few years ago but it is making the final decision that has been hard!!!

Best Wishes
Jan



Martyn de Young
Sent: 21 January 2018 19:43
Don't worry, just go for it! I recently transferred a 20-year old group from Yahoo, and all the members, photos, files, databases transferred - it took Mark no more than a couple of hours, and all I had to do was send a couple of emails!

The admin interface and web-based members area is a lot easier to use, a combination of the old familiar features, but smoother (and it WORKS!), and lots of new bits!

I should have done it years ago!
All the best,

Martyn

Don't worry, just go for it!? I recently transferred a 20-year old group from Yahoo,? and all the members, photos, files, databases transferred - it took Mark no more than a couple of hours, and all I had to do was send a couple of emails!

The admin interface and web-based members area is a lot easier to use, a combination of the old familiar features, but smoother (and it WORKS!), and lots of new bits!

I should have done it years ago!
All the best,

Martyn

Thank you very much Shal - I have started the process with one of my groups - the one currently causing the most problems - they are only small craft groups - 35 members in one and less in the other one so not huge like some I have seen on here - fingers crossed all goes well and thank you for your advice.

Best Wishes
Jan

I wish I could, but Groups.io can't do much about it if Yahoo's facilities become too dysfunctional to deliver the data.

That said, I'd bet that the code behind the transfer agent is more robust than the code that Yahoo loads into your browser to access content. Also we've seen recent reports of success, such as Ruthie's.

> - I would like the Database and Photos active in the new group and are > the members transferred easily please?

The manage members list is the first thing copied by the transfer agent, and I would guess it to be the least problematic. That is, I've not had trouble accessing my Y!Groups' Manage Members lists via Yahoo's web interface, but I have had trouble with Photos and Files and even Pending messages.

The Database and Photos are copied by default. Make sure you've made the appropriate access settings for them in your Groups.io group before initiating the transfer. That is, make sure that they are not disabled.

> Currently on one of my groups Photos are not active - does this work > with the transfer or not

I'm sure that if the Y!Group's access control for Photos is set to "Off"
that the section will simply be skipped by the transfer agent. The rest of the transfer should be unaffected.

> Once the transfer is made does that close down the Yahoo group or is > it still available and nothing has changed?

There's a big green banner on the instructions page to reassure you:
"We do not make any changes to your Yahoo Group. We simply make a copy
of everything."
/static/yahootransfer

Your Y!Group members will receive a "welcome" message from Groups.io when the copying has completed. And if you set up a custom Welcome message (Member Notices tab of your Groups.io group's Settings page) they'll receive that as well.

Other than that, informing your Y!Group membership in advance, and any changes you wish to make to the Yahoo Group afterward, are purely up to you.

> I hope you won't mind my asking ...

Nope, that's what we're here for.

Shal