Re: Problems with transfer memberships
Ro, It may go smoother than you think. If your group members largely read and post by email, without needing the visit the group site, then they are all set. They needn't visit Groups.io, needn't read
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Shal Farley
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#112
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Re: Problems with transfer memberships
Brenda, I wrote: In fact, any and all of these bits of advice would be good things to add to a customized "Welcome" message, so the members get them first thing. Let's collect advice about
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Shal Farley
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#111
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Re: Problems with transfer memberships
This is kind of a deal break on doing the "whole group transfer". People dont read instructions, dont want to go thru that hassle, will get frustrated and upset. Please let us know when a better
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Ro
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#110
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Re: Problems with transfer memberships
Brenda, Actually, at that point his account didn't have a password. Only the email address. That is the intended mechanism for creating a password on a new account. Unfortunately the terminology isn't
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Shal Farley
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#109
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Re: how to limit visibility of archives?
Brenda, You are correct. A better choice of words might have been "archived posts" or "the messages archive". -- Shal
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Shal Farley
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#108
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Re: Bringing the Moderation Question In here.
Brenda, Yahoo Groups don't have that feature, but Groups.io does. No, if it meant that then there'd be no practical difference between it and "Moderated". The reality is that: "Moderated for new
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Shal Farley
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#107
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Re: how to limit visibility of archives?
On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 Shal Farley wrote: Quoting Olivia:>>It seems that "private archives" is not the same as "private group" in the yahoo sense. Here it just means that the old posts are not viewable
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Nightowl >8#
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Bringing the Moderation Question In here.
Okay Shal, I copied over parts of the post from Beta to here, so we can continue the discussion on Moderation and how it works both in Yahoo and in groups.io. Owl wrote:>>Hmmm. Help me understand
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Nightowl >8#
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#105
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Re: Problems with transfer memberships
My transferred members in my test group had the same issue. They were only allowed to 'change' their password but not given an opportunity to create one. (They actually were creating one, but the UI
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J_Olivia Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#104
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Re: did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning?
Xaun Loc wrote: Today's troubles seem to have affected a wide area, maybe all geographic areas to a varied degree. No matter: the good news is that Y!G didn't "finally bite the dust". Yet. I'm closing
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Shal Farley
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#103
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Problems with transfer memberships
Hey everyone, A member whom I transferred from a Yahoo Group to an io.group using Mark's transfer method, had this problem: *** 12/31/15 Hi Brenda, Just to let you know that I struggled to join
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Nightowl >8#
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#102
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Re: did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning?
No problems here either.?? Sounds like the problem was at Catlady's end ? From: Ro Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 18:30 PM? Strange, I just received and posted in my Yahoo group. [Mod note: this
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Xaun Loc
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#101
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Re: did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning?
Yahoo routes everything inbound and outbound through a myriad of task-specific servers. It is entirely possible for ONE server to do something weird for a while. In general, Yahoo doesn't worry about
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Xaun Loc
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#100
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Re: did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning?
I got that same message at one point today, did the same thing immediately and it worked. Most computers and online services have down time and wonkiness from time to time. Sincerely, David Dillard
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David P. Dillard <jwne@...>
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#99
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Re: did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning?
Same problem here in Michigan off and on all today
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mike bader
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#98
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Re: did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning?
It was national. I heard from a member in Brooklyn, NY, and one in Colorado.
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J_Olivia Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#97
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Re: did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning?
It just happened again, and this time I copied the text. All I did was try to get into groups. ---------------------------------------------- Your browser sent a request that this server could not
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J_Olivia Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#96
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Re: did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning?
It only lasted about an hour. Other people thought it was a connection error. I heard from members all over the country. Anyway, that particular thing seemed to have happened only once, but another
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J_Olivia Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#95
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Re: did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning?
J_catlady, I've had no problems reaching Yahoo Groups pages this morning or afternoon. It sounds like you're having some "internet weather" - a local or regional outage, or problems with Yahoo's edge
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Shal Farley
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#94
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Re: did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning?
Strange, I just received and posted in my Yahoo group. Ro Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:26:49 -0800 Subject: [GMF] did yahoo finally bite the dust this morning? To: [email protected] From:
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Ro
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#93
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