posting visible to sender and email threads
Basically a novice so any help very appreciated. Have 2 questions and wondering if there's something I haven't done as the group administrator. 1) When I post or reply to a posting, my message doesn't
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Carlos McDonald
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#49021
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Re: Group archive discovered to be publicly viewable
Keep in mind that while the archives were available to the public, they were probably scanned by Google and other search companies.? Eventually they'll realize they can't get there any more and give
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Duane
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#49020
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Re: Group archive discovered to be publicly viewable
Groups.io stores no record of viewing by members, let alone nonmembers. Regards, Bruce Check out the groups.io Help Center ( /helpcenter ) and groups.io Owners Manual (
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Bruce
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#49019
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Group archive discovered to be publicly viewable
After several years of assumed security, we have discovered that our group's archive settings allowed 'anyone to view'. We have corrected the settings, so the archive will be viewable only by group
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BarryS
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#49018
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Re: Migrating Old Yahoo Archived Mailing Lists Messages to Groups.IO
Interesting that archive.org was able to scrape some of these groups and retrieve messages with full email addresses. I thought you had to be a group admin to do that. The archive I just downloaded
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Bruce
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#49017
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Re: Member difficulties
Yes. There is a green button on the Upgrade page specifically for that purpose. Follow the instructions at /helpcenter/single/ownersmanual#groupproceduresgroup_upgradinghtm and select
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Bruce
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#49016
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Re: Migrating Old Yahoo Archived Mailing Lists Messages to Groups.IO
Thanks. Creating PDFs is an alternative. But I'm open for more alternatives on how to organize the Yahoo Groups backup in a way that are searchable for the public. Preferable if those can be imported
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Martin Iturbide
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#49015
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Member difficulties
I run a number of Groups and try to impress on all members to NOT use a work email address and ALWAYS set up a password to enable access to the account in the event of email problems. Do they listen?
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UKenGB
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#49014
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Re: Question: +owner messages
I do check for group.io mail frequently in outlook on my computer. I use the app if I am out and about. The reason I said a pending owner message notification would be useful is that I have asked
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Wicca Jampolsky Davidson
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#49013
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Re: Question: +owner messages
Okay, I think I finally get it. You (and possibly Ken) use the app/web interface exclusively for groups.io functions and don't check email often (if at all). On that basis I can understand why some
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Bruce
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#49012
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Re: Question: +owner messages
I think a pending owner message flag would be useful as the members of my 1036 person group use the +owner email to call my attention to some detail in a message they have sent for posting. Wicca
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Wicca Jampolsky Davidson
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#49011
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Re: Question: +owner messages
In the Activity Log, pull down the filter menu and select action "Message - to +owner". You can get a complete list that way. Generally, though... -- In the web interface, +owner messages are grouped
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Bruce
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#49010
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Re: Question: +owner messages
Check your subscription for the group where you are owner or moderator. Scroll down to ?Owner Email All Emails Receive every message that is sent to [email protected]. Make sure this
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Frances
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#49009
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Re: Question: +owner messages
Hi Bruce & Frances, Thank you, but that doesn¡¯t alert me to a message being posted. In this case, I happened to look at my Outlook e-mail and noticed it. Can I assume there isn¡¯t a folder called
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Ken Schweizer
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#49008
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Re: Migrating Old Yahoo Archived Mailing Lists Messages to Groups.IO
This topic is discussing a Yahoo Groups archive (see subject line). If you're talking about a groups.io archive, I don't know. -- Perhaps it's just difficult to code and he hasn't bothered to write a
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Bruce
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#49007
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Re: Migrating Old Yahoo Archived Mailing Lists Messages to Groups.IO
Duane, This is something I've never understood. Since a backup/archive is in a format that Groups.io created, why does not provide a way to restore from an archive? (I could see restoring to a
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Cal
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#49006
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Re: Migrating Old Yahoo Archived Mailing Lists Messages to Groups.IO
If it were me, I'd probably create PDF files.? Then the reader could be used to search for information, as well as easily downloaded by members. Duane -- Lots of detailed information can be found in
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Duane
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#49005
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Migrating Old Yahoo Archived Mailing Lists Messages to Groups.IO
Hello I'm new on this mailing list, so if I'm in the wrong place asking this, a pointer to the right place will be appreciated. I'm part of the OS/2 Warp community. Since Yahoo Groups went down, we
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Martin Iturbide
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#49004
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Re: Question: +owner messages
If you click open someone's member record, there's a pull-down "Membership" menu where you can select "+owner messages." This will display a sorted list of every one they've ever sent, with the most
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Bruce
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#49003
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Re: Question: +owner messages
So you found the message in Admin - activity. And now click on the message - the subject - to open it up. You can read and reply from there. Frances -- Help available from /helpcenter
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Frances
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#49002
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