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Re: European Date Format & 24hr Clock
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Our US-based group is very much opposed to changing the date/time format unilaterally. Why should our members (who have been here for two years) be subjected to confusion to accommodate newcomers? If it can be implemented optionally at the group or individual level we would support it. Otherwise, we will vigorously oppose it.
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Re: Transfers from Yahoo Groups ... Down?
Leroy Churchill
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI just had one Yahoo Group transferred last Thursday. ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Betz
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 11:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [GMF] Transfers from Yahoo Groups ... Down? ? Hi, |
Re: Tell me about "liking" messages
Tiffany,
If someone "likes" a message is the person who wrote the messageUnfortunately the latter, Likes are all but invisible at the moment. There is a long-awaited "notifications overhaul" which should provide notification by web and optionally by email to the post's author, and maybe to others. As well as notices for a host of other events. Also, what is the difference between "rich" and "plain" formatting onRich is HTML formatted, with active links in the TOC and under each message. Plain is plain-text, the TOC does not link to the messages further down, and the links to actions on site are spelled out as URLs which may (depending on your email interface) be linkified or you may have to cut and paste them to your browser. Shal |
Re: When not to transfer a Yahoo Group list.
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI've also had similar experiences. I just said we're moving, no questions asked, if you want to come I'll send you an invite, but that's ?it.?No exceptions. If you don't like the y, then so be it. About almost 200 of the 300 we had came with me. The ?others are slowly coming back. I would just say here's ?what's happening ?we are transfering , no exceptions, either follow orders or there's the door.
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Re: Transfers from Yahoo Groups ... Down?
Jim,
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This was the message Saturday morning, I haven't seen an update. KEN "It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success." STEINBECK - CANNERY ROW On 2018-01-29 09:48, Jim Betz wrote:
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Transfers from Yahoo Groups ... Down?
Hi,
? I've heard people saying that transfers from yahoo groups are 'waiting'. ? 1) Is this real or are they proceeding? ? 2) Is this more of a slow down than a halt? ? 3) Have you had a request to transfer denied or been told it will be ? ? ? delayed? ? Yes, I have a group I'm going to be transferring in the near future. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?- Jim B. |
Re: When not to transfer a Yahoo Group list.
Ken,
? My experiences are similar to yours.? I'll add in some other considerations. ? Many (most?) yahoo groups owners/moderators/users are not even slightly cognizant of?how the list actually functions and so those users are 'resistant' to any?mention of "change". ? In addition - there is a certain group of online users who 'feel the need to comment/take a position' on -every- topic/thread.? That attitude is irrelevant of their level of expertise on the topic. ? There seems to be very little relationship between the number of members of a yahoo group and their willingness/hesitancy to change to some other method. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?- Jim B. |
Re: Chats question
Nancy in Renton
I was just thinking about setting up a chat for our group so went back and reread previous posts on the topic.?When we tested the chat room we noticed that there¡¯s no ¡°chime¡± that someone new has joined in. Also, sometimes new conversations only showed up after refreshing the page (but not always).
Has anyone used chats and what was your workaround? I want to schedule some chats on specific topics and put them on the calendar. First I need to write out a how to. Nancy |
Tell me about "liking" messages
If someone "likes" a message is the person who wrote the message notified? Or would they only know by going to the message online and checking there? Tiffany |
Re: European Date Format & 24hr Clock
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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Duane, ? Yes ¨C I¡¯ve liked posts there and added a new post there too. ? Simon ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Duane ? It looks like this is definitely on Mark's mind: ? As Shal mentioned, additional comments on Mark's earlier post, , might help give it a boost. |
Re: Invite Question
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Shal, I think you might be right. If group allows moderated posts by non-members - I do that on my group. - the individual messages are being approved by a moderator.? Ask the member is she is she is receiving email from the group. Likely she isn¡¯t because she isn¡¯t a member.? Frances |
Re: European Date Format & 24hr Clock
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It looks like this is definitely on Mark's mind: ? As Shal mentioned, additional comments on Mark's earlier post, , might help give it a boost.
Duane |
Re: European Date Format & 24hr Clock
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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýCan I support too. The web site dates is as impenetrable to non-Americans as Degrees Celsius were to the US Citizens I met on a recent tour of the Canadian Rockies¡ ? Dave Wade ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon Hedges via Groups.Io
Sent: 29 January 2018 13:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GMF] European Date Format & 24hr Clock #calendar ? I'd like to support this.? |
Re: European Date Format & 24hr Clock
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I'd like to support this.?
I run yahoogroups with large proportions of members in the USA, Canada, UK, rest of Europe, Australia and some other countries.? In order for dates to be readily and instantly understandable, the members need to be able to know, without thinking,unambiguously, that a message posted on 1/8/18 was posted on 1st August 2018, or 8th January 2018 and the only way of doing this instantly is to enable them to see dates in their local date format. The same goes for time format: I far prefer to use the 24 hour clock (I'm from the UK where 12 hour and 24 hour clocks are in common usage), but many of my US members find that quite difficult. This issue is slowing down a transfer of some of my groups from yahoogroups to io groups: enforcing a single format, whether the US format or ISO format (which has the benefit of annoying almost everyone equally), or the DD/MM/YYYY format used by most of the world, smacks of cultural imperialism of one form or another!?? Simon, on 29/01/2018 at 13:23 |
Re: Invite Question
Marcia,
What might a person have done - or not done - if the invite listCould she have more than one email address? One still "Sent" and another that posted to the group? Or does the group allow posting by non-members? Otherwise I'm at a loss for how she posted to the group before accepting the invitation, or how she would think she has but the site thinks otherwise. The other half of the coin is whether she's receiving postings from the group. That even more so should not happen until after she accepts the invite. Is there a way I can change Sent to Accepted?I don't think you can, it should be strictly up to her. If you could that would be tantamount to a Direct Add. Which is something only a Premium or Enterprise group should have. Shal |
Re: Question about Member Notices - Note to Member
Ah yeah I might suggest that as sometimes I might need to send an all call to the list but might not have the time to write it out, or it could be sent on a schedule like the guide lines thing. I dunno, I'll bring this up on beta probably tomorrow.
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On Jan 28, 2018, at 5:11 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote: |
Re: Question about Member Notices - Note to Member
Sarah,
Would I maybe use this to be sent to a list if I maybe need to warnIt isn't really designed for sending to the entire membership. The idea is that you'd checkmark one or a few members (in the Members list) then in the Actions menu at the bottom of the page use Send Message. But maybe there's a suggestion for beta@ - when used by a moderator the New Topic composition page could have the drop-list for Member Notice selection in addition to the special notice checkbox. That would be useful for notices that don't make sense to schedule but are needed on occasion. Shal |
Re: When not to transfer a Yahoo Group list.
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýOn 28 Jan 2018 at 14:15, SP4149 wrote:
> If you are a moderator (or even a subscriber) for a list owner with
> these characteristics, trying to promote a move will be a waste of
> your time and likely incur ire and distrust.? It's time to drop the
> subject.
Ken,
Thanks for that analysis!
When we hang around with progressive listowners all the time, it's easy to
start to think that everyone thinks like us.?
But like you said, some owners use the discussion group as a "slow-paced
chat group"? :-) , or even as a cloud-based distribution list.? They don't
really care about features or reliability.
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Jim
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Re: When not to transfer a Yahoo Group list.
J_Catlady
Interesting analysis. As you may have read, I was badly burned last week for trying to "help" a Y group move to who had no interest in doing that. ;p On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 2:15 PM, SP4149 <ken@...> wrote: This last week I posted my experiences of transferring a list from YG to on several YG lists where there |