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Re: Managing bouncers #membership
One of my two red Bs answered, she didn¡¯t change email, she¡¯s now blue. What does she do? She said she¡¯d changed passwords ¡°that¡¯s all¡±.? Now what, wait ?
By Nancy in Renton <sday13@...> · #4427 ·
Cleaning Yahoo Posts B4 or After Transfer Query #transfer
We have many old posts, for example, meeting notices that would be nice to purge. Is it possible to do this after the transfer by "subject" or other bulk deletion? Or, should we delete before
By Denny G. · #4426 ·
Re: Require info from prospective members
What happens if you use the setting under Spam Control for: On Yahoo this brings up a box for the user to submit reasons. Sharon ---- Sharon Villines TakomaTime, a neighborhood timebank
By Sharon Villines · #4425 ·
Re: Require info from prospective members
Hi All, I screen for our group by sending an email back to the applicant requesting that they provide more information before approval. I find that some of the addresses are not real, people reply
By Paul Ohio USA · #4424 ·
Members joining anew group, a reason?
Hello My group has just been moved from Yahoo where when new members joined the group they needed to give a reason why they wanted to join As a moderator I need to see this reason in order to approve
By Philip Wormald · #4423 ·
Re: Require info from prospective members
As for my group we ask questions as well before admitting anyone to the group. We are a Chronic Pain group. We ask for a chronic pain related reason for joining the group as well as an affirmation
By Douglas Swearingen · #4422 ·
Re: Require info from prospective members
Let¡¯s post about this on beta to show Mark how pressing this need is.
By J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> · #4421 ·
Re: Require info from prospective members
As you can see from the myriad of responses there are many reasons why such a feature is useful. My lists are for some pretty narrow special interests and it is a great tool to make sure the
By Richard Carlson <rich@...> · #4420 ·
Re: E.U. Issues with Transfers?
What to migrate, and how to migrate it, are issues that list-owners have discussed since at least 1980. Back then, "best practice" was to send two or three emails that contained the new address for
By toki · #4419 ·
Re: Change of Mail Delivery status
Someone that has actually done it would need to verify, but it should put them all on Special Notices Only. Duane
By Duane · #4418 ·
Re: Length of Group description in Groups Directory #suggestion
I think I've finally figured out where the one BOLD word is coming from.? When you search for a word in the directory, that word will be in bold on the results page.? Now we just need to find out
By Duane · #4417 ·
Change of Mail Delivery status
Let's assume that a Yahoo Group is being prepared to be transferred. Let's assume that the Yahoo Group has been in existence for over 15 years. Let's assume that the Yahoo Group to be transferred
By Al Silverstein <silversteina@...> · #4416 ·
Re: E.U. Issues with Transfers?
First question: how did you know that 2-300 people opted-out of the transfer? Did you receive a notice? Second question. I have chosen to move my group message archive, too. So I suppose that at some
By Marina · #4415 ·
Re: E.U. Issues with Transfers?
After reading all this, I am full of doubts and I wonder if I should have known better and relocate just members without their own content (messages). I am going through the relocating process now,
By Marina · #4414 ·
Re: Require info from prospective members
At some point in my YG group, to keep the focus on the group subject, we started to restrict memberships. In our website and on the group page we stated clearly that only subscription requests with a
By Marina · #4413 ·
Re: Length of Group description in Groups Directory #suggestion
Many thanks for your help, Shal. That group description was meant to be short, so length it's not problem in that case. My other group description, on the other hand, was meant to be a bit longer (not
By Marina · #4412 ·
Re: Subgroup creation, better before or after Yahoo transfer?
Thank you, Shal. I'll wait it out, then. By the way, I've found out that you cannot invite people to a subgroups. You can either add them (which is a Premium Group feature, if I am not mistaken) or
By Marina · #4411 ·
Re: Subgroup creation, better before or after Yahoo transfer?
Marina, I would say create them before sending the Go email, or wait until you receive the "completed" notice. Either way should be fine, but I wouldn't risk creating them while the transfer is in
By Shal Farley · #4410 ·
Re: Length of Group description in Groups Directory #suggestion
Marina, That's odd. I found that group in the directory and I don't see any bold-faced word. In fact, it doesn't look like the directory shows any formatting that the group Description might have. Or
By Shal Farley · #4409 ·
Re: Require info from prospective members
I have one simple and short sentence in my pending member message. It's not even a question. "The moderators of the xxx list ask that you hit reply to this message and identify yourself. Thank you. "
By debbie <debbiesther@...> · #4408 ·