Re: Groups.io site updates
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Shal, In DON we tried to devise fool-proof (or sailor-proof) plan, but in our management systems we found that the only systems that had problems were those run by the computer system experts... KEN
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SP4149
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A Groups.io group used as a mirror for an existing, other mailing list. Is this feature offered?
A Groups.io group used as a mirror for an existing, other mailing list. Is this feature offered? Google Groups offered this for a while then discontinued it while grandfathering those already using
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Lawrence London
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Re: Upgrading from basic to premium
Thanks. I don't know why I didn't see that earlier. Sara wrote:
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Sara Binkley Tarpley
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Re: Groups.io site updates
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Shal, That's pretty funny stuff...lol Don
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Don Grass
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Re: Site Updates - How Does He Do It!
#testimonials
"I may as well fret that Kia will sell off its US operations and leave me with inferior maintenance and warranty for my hamster car. I'm sure many Saturn owners will answer that with, "well, yeah".
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Don Grass
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Re: Site Updates - How Does He Do It!
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¡°After a couple of years without profit or supposedly faced with substantial costs to update their technology, the new owners have decided to cut their losses.¡± The theory in the Groups.io model
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Don Grass
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Re: Groups.io site updates
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Don, There's an old saying in computer science to the effect that the only complete and error-free program is one that nobody uses. The observation is that any software that is in regular use ends up
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Shal Farley
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Re: Site Updates - How Does He Do It!
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"What assurance do we have that the same thing might not happen with groups.io, except being bought out by maybe another company instead of Yahoo?" Th only thing in life that is guaranteed, is death
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Don Grass
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Re: Groups.io site updates
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Never ending.
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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Re: Groups.io site updates
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Since Mark does updates every week will there ever be a time when he does not have to update? Or are updates a never ending thing? Don
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Don Grass
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Re: A Transferred Attachment
Shal, I can bring up the image by clicking on the thumbnail, but I don¡¯t know if that will give me any pertinent information. After I found the email with the three thumbnails below the text, I
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Don Grass
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Re: The Transfer Message
Yes, that would be the thing to do, but, as I said, when dealing with people all sorts of surprises can occur, even with the simplest of things. For example, when I asked this individual to subscribe
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Stan Gorodenski
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Re: The Transfer Message
To help minimize the unsubs, you could include the information in the Welcome message that would also be sent (you could change it to something more appropriate for your group after the move.)? That,
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Duane
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Re: Upgrading from basic to premium
On the group page, choose Admin on the left-hand side menu, then Upgrade below that. For a new group, you can choose "Start a Group" with a particular plan on?/static/pricing wunder
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Walter Underwood
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Re: The Transfer Message
Stan, The most recent I have is from last August. I'm not sure if this notice is among the things Mark recently improved. but here's the paragraph: *You do not have to do anything to continue being a
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Shal Farley
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Upgrading from basic to premium
How do you upgrade a group to premium? Sara Tarpley
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Sara Binkley Tarpley
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The Transfer Message
I do not have readily on hand the actual text of the message a member of YG's gets to inform them that the group has been moved to groups.io. However, I do remember that the message gives the member
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Stan Gorodenski
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Re: Site Updates - How Does He Do It!
#testimonials
Stan, That's about the most open of secrets. It's the core of the Groups.io product announcement (linked from the Groups.io About page): https://wingedpig.com/2014/09/23/introducing-groups-io/ We have
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Shal Farley
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Re: Site Updates - How Does He Do It!
#testimonials
That would be Mark Fletcher who is, AFAIK, the one-man band behind groups.io ( http://groups.io ). I've voiced the same concern, now exacerbated by the demise of #Wikispaces. When I first started a
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Tom H
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Re: Site Updates - How Does He Do It!
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I didn't complete my sentence correctly. I said "Another thought that concerns me is that I believe I read that one or more of the creators of what is now Yahoo groups was bought out by Yahoo around
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Stan Gorodenski
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