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Problems adding members/shutting down/restarting

 

Hello,

With Yahoo Groups shutting down in a few days, our mailing list Teaching Jobs in France, which send out job offers for teaching jobs (many adjunct or part-time), needed to migrate to another platform, and both Groups.io and Google Groups were the most recommended. Doing a little research, I found that Groups.io had some very favorable reviews, so it was chosen.

In creating the group just about 24 hours ago, there was the possibility of adding ALL the previous 706 members of our group, which I downloaded from Yahoo Groups. However, I didn't immediately add them and clicked on the next button.

The new Teaching Jobs in France group was created and a few hours later approved. However, I saw that I could no longer ADD members, just SEND invitations.

Wanting to go back, I decided to delete the group (of which I was the only member at the time) and create a new one of the same name.

But when I tried to use the same email address in reforming our group, the site said I couldn't because it had already been taken. Assuming that my removal of the group needed approval, I have been waiting, but nothing has happened and the original group still exists.

AND, in the meantime, several dozen of our members have signed up to join this new group.

So I went ahead and copied the email addresses of our 700+ members for them to be sent invitations. Because of the numbers, however, we are waiting for approval before the invitations are sent out.

SO, where are we? Will our group be shut down, needing to be recreated? Or will it go on functioning as if I had not chosen to delete it?

Any insights you can provide would be much appreciated!

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Calendar is back in service

 

9PM 10 Dec? Calendar Seems to be restored and back functioning normally
THANK YOU BRUCE FOR YOUR HELP!!!
Re: Calendar page has no data

 

All my groups' Calendars are still displaying as blank, but one of my groups just sent a Reminder 8 minutes ago on time (from its blank Calendar).

On Dec 10, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Michael Pavan <michaelpavan@...> wrote:

I'm experiencing that too.

On Dec 10, 2020, at 6:21 PM, Bob Meyers via groups.io <meyersrh@...> wrote:

The page is basically blank not only for the site for which I am the owner but for other sites in which I participate.
Re: Calendar page has no data

 

I'm experiencing that too.

On Dec 10, 2020, at 6:21 PM, Bob Meyers via groups.io <meyersrh@...> wrote:

The page is basically blank not only for the site for which I am the owner but for other sites in which I participate.
Re: question on using email for unsubscribing

 

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 04:35 PM, Lars S?z¨¹er wrote:
Is it possible for a group owner to customize the content of this confirmation email
which a member gets after sending an unsubscribe request via email?
Lars -- This is not an available feature. However, you can create a Member Notice of type Goodbye to be sent after they confirm.

Customizable member notices are described at?/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-member-notices?

Regards,
Bruce
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Calendar page has no data

 

The page is basically blank not only for the site for which I am the owner but for other sites in which I participate.
WHAT HAPPENED??????
Bob Meyers
Re: Calendar and entries have disappeared #calendar

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It isn't only the entries that are gone, the whole calendar is gone.
It is a blank page.
Should this be reported on Beta or did someone already do that??
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Date: 12/10/2020 5:16:22 PM
Subject: Re: [GMF] Calendar and entries have disappeared #calendar
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I am the owner of /g/n3986q/
The calendar page is totally blank.? I checked another group site I am on and it is the same.? Seems there is a major software glitch.? PLEASE HELP!!!!
-Bob
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Re: Calendar and entries have disappeared #calendar

 

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 06:16 PM, Bob Meyers wrote:
I am the owner of /g/n3986q/
The calendar page is totally blank.? I checked another group site I am on and it is the same.?
Me too. If it's not already been reported to beta, I'll take care of it.

Bruce?
Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual
Re: Calendar and entries have disappeared #calendar

 

I am the owner of /g/n3986q/
The calendar page is totally blank.? I checked another group site I am on and it is the same.? Seems there is a major software glitch.? PLEASE HELP!!!!
-Bob
Re: Calendar and entries have disappeared #calendar

 

Three users (two owners and a member) all have same result. ?Two are Google users.

As far as I know, we all signed on correctly.
Re: Calendar and entries have disappeared #calendar

 

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:59 PM, Susan Hyne wrote:
Have been using the calendar feature in a subgroup every day for a year. ?Today, no calendar.

All entries are gone. ?None of the options (Month/Week/Day) seem to be responsive.

Am a Google user. ?
Are you seeing the Owner or Moderator beside HOME on the top left of your group homepage?
This is often a reason - people logging in with the wrong email address.

Frances
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Calendar and entries have disappeared #calendar

 

Have been using the calendar feature in a subgroup every day for a year. ?Today, no calendar.

All entries are gone. ?None of the options (Month/Week/Day) seem to be responsive.

Am a Google user. ?

Any ideas?
Re: question on using email for unsubscribing

 

Is it possible for a group owner to customize the content of this confirmation email
which a member gets after sending an unsubscribe request via email?

Lars
Re: images on mobile phones

 

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:45 AM, Mimi Kessler wrote:
On my computer, I signed in once and get all the images now. But on my iPhone, I have to sign in each time for each individual image.
On each device, logging in sets a cookie that's good for 30 days unless you sign out.? Unfortunately, iPhones don't default to saving the cookie.? There may be a way to change that, but an iPhone user would need to find it.

Duane
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images on mobile phones

 

I received this inquiry today. It relates to iPhones but it also happens on Android. I thought if the person has an account on that they would be able to see them, but I think this person does have an account as well as being a member of my group:

"I still don¡¯t get images on my iPhone when someone attaches a JPEG. On my computer, I signed in once and get all the images now. But on my iPhone, I have to sign in each time for each individual image. It¡¯s a pain in the butt. Does anyone have this same problem, and is there a solution?"

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Mimi Kessler
919-599-2892
Re: How to make edits without emailing everyone in the group #messages

 

BillSF9c,

I am awful with typos, Chuck. So I do an Edit or two BUT this is not
sent out. I do it to clean up archives - and admonish myself to do
better.

If a member did as you say I'd moderate him and explain, mostly
offlist.
A member doesn't have the "don't send" option, only moderators/owners can make an edit without sending the new version. I'm not sure if you knew that, but it sometimes trips up mods who think that members have the same options.

I HATE when, because of this problem, some owners simply shut down
edits.
Ditto, though I do have some small sympathy for the group owners who don't want to spend the time trying to educate their members about responsible use of the Edit ability.

Shal


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Re: member unsubscribe

 

Bruce,

This screenshot shows what actually happens


Ok, so option (a). Probably the lesser evil. At least it clearly explains what happened and what to do. (You could have made that a link, BTW.)

I still think an mailto link to the +unsubscribe address may be more
straightforward.
The argument against a mailto link is that the +unsubscribe command requires confirmation. The concern was that the confirmation requests would not be received (or not noticed) by the sender. Then the complaints flow in about this broken system that won't let them unsubscribe.

Under Stephanie's circumstance, with a login required, the need for email confirmation may seem the lesser evil. But Mark says it isn't supposed to be that way, so I guess it is up to him to figure out what's going wrong with what is supposed to be a streamlined web confirmation.

Shal


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Re: member unsubscribe

 

Stephanie,

So to test the below, I signed up my daughter from her device (she has
never logged in) and when tried the unsubscribe link from her
email/device she also got the same request to login.
Since that seems to directly contradict how the system is said to work, you should report that in beta. Probably best as a new topic with the #bug hashtag:


In your message I think you should cite this answer:


Before convert my entire yahoo group over any chance this is a setting
I can fix?
Nope. It isn't supposed to be that way,

I don't know if you need the screenshot, but you could include it for emphasis. Maybe there's something about the fact this is being handled on a mobile device. But your test wasn't was it?

Shal


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Re: Is a log kept of messages sent from Owner address

 

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 05:31 PM, John McLachlan wrote:
So, you can send (or reply) to individuals via the web interface (/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/sending-and-receiving-group-owner-email-messages/sending-messages-from-the-owner-email-address)

This works fine, but I don't see a record of these direct emails under Admin->Activity. Are these messages logged anywhere??
No...if you need a copy of your own message, you must BCC yourself.

Any replies coming back will appear in both the log and in that member's "+Owner Messages" page.

Regards,
Bruce?
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Is a log kept of messages sent from Owner address

 

So, you can send (or reply) to individuals via the web interface (/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/sending-and-receiving-group-owner-email-messages/sending-messages-from-the-owner-email-address)

This works fine, but I don't see a record of these direct emails under Admin->Activity.

Are these messages logged anywhere??

- John Mc
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