Re: transferring from yahoo best practices
Suzanne -- You have to click the green "Start Group Transfer Process" button. Once you actually have a transfer initiated and are at the "invite the transfer agent" step, at that point the screen will
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Bruce
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Re: transferring from yahoo best practices
I was looking for the transfer set up page that Bruce spoke of and found /edittransfer?start=1 I don't see any option to opt out of having a notice sent to everyone upon transfer.
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Suzanne H
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Re: transferring from yahoo best practices
Suzanne -- It appears that you've already given the go-ahead to transfer and are counting down your place in the upload queue. That being so, it's too late to change the entries in the checkboxes. If
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Bruce
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Re: transferring from yahoo best practices
Bruce (or anyone) - How do I get to the transfer set up page you mention if I have already requested the transfer but I'm still in the queue.? Can I change anything at this point? The folks on the
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Suzanne H
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Re: Welcome Message Not Sent After Transition
Mike -- For what it's worth, I have reported this as a bug to support, at least in the context of Yahoo group transfers. I haven't yet received a response. I don't know if anyone will bother to work
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Bruce
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Re: Welcome Message Not Sent After Transition
I too am having problems with the Welcome message NOT being sent to new members. I have the "Type" set as "Welcome" and I edited the original message to include additional information then set the
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Mike W5RKL
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Re: Missing Transfer
Make sure the Heathkit group has been upgraded to Premium.? Each group must be upgraded separately.? The premium upgrade is per group not an owner upgrade. IF the group is already upgraded to
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Janis
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Re: Attachments
This might be something of a long shot but don't sub - groups have to share their storage both with one another and with their parent group? Assuming that to be the case is the total quoted for the
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Chris Jones
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Re: hashtag from topic?
#hashtags
So I went and looked, and apparently you can set a hashtag to automatically lock or delete a thread after a period of time, but not moderate. Wanted to correct that statement I made before. Also,
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Su
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Re: Attachments from Yahoo, Storage capacity
#yahoo
I just downloaded them one by one from the Attachments page. Gilbert
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Gilbert Coville
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Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)
Debbie -- If you enable Databases in your Settings (look in the Features block), your links will be there. Bruce
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Bruce
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Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)
Bruce, Thanks but I don't even see a DATABASES section. Debbie
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Debbie Greenlee
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Re: transferring from yahoo best practices
Suzanne -- There is a checkbox for this on the transfer setup page (where you decide what areas of the group to transfer). Such is my understanding, although others have recently reported that it
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Bruce
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Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)
Added to the FAQ on transferring - in the wiki. /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/FAQ-on-Moving-from-Yahoo-Groups Frances -- FAQ on Moving from YahooGroups (
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Frances
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Re: transferring from yahoo best practices
The FAQ says: 5. What gets transferred using the Transfer Agent? Groups.io can transfer message archives, properly owned and properly threaded, (without attachments, however), photos, files, links and
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Frances
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Re: transferring from yahoo best practices
If someone is "no mail" in YG and you have opted to disallow that in Groups.io, they are transferred as Special Notices only. Just an FYI. Frances -- FAQ on Moving from YahooGroups (
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Frances
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Re: transferring from yahoo best practices
In one of the groups we moved to GIO, there were many who had chosen 'no email' in YG. We decided not to provide the option. Even though some members left, most continued. One issue some had was the
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M K Ramadoss
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Re: hashtag from topic?
#hashtags
Su -- Interesting scenario. No. A hashtag IS a string in the topic. I'm afraid not. Even if you could, it's not possible to retrieve already-sent emails and change the reply-to field in those headers.
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Bruce
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Re: Attachments from Yahoo, Storage capacity
#yahoo
Nice! How did you download the attachments from Yahoo in the first place? One by one? PGO? Su
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Su
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hashtag from topic?
#hashtags
I'm trying to figure out how to handle a situation that crops up from time to time in one of my groups. We allow off-topic posts on Fridays. I would like to limit responses to the group to Friday /
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Su
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