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Automatic Distribution of Messages

Bruce Birnel
 

I have just set up a new egroup on?. I have been and still am an owner of other groups ?on Yahoo groups. We have been very unhappy with Yahoo for many years now and would like to transfer our membership over to?. When we are ready to make the transition, we can not use your automatic transfer method because we have over 7800 registered accounts. We are certain that many of these accounts are unused due to people moving out of our community, etc. What we plan to do is to have people sign up as new members so that when the sign-ups are complete, we will be assured that all the accounts are being used.

In the meantime, the present moderators and owners of the Yahoo egroup, have already joined our new??account. I am trying to duplicate the services that we¡¯ve had on the yahoo egroup and have run into a problem. On our old Yahoo egroup, there is a feature whereby we can upload a text document and have that document automatically sent out to the entire membership once a month. We can also have that document automatically sent out to new members upon joining the group. I can not figure out how to do this on?. Would appreciate any advice here.
 

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 05:47 pm, Bruce Birnel wrote:
On our old Yahoo egroup, there is a feature whereby we can upload a text document and have that document automatically sent out to the entire membership once a month. We can also have that document automatically sent out to new members upon joining the group. I can not figure out how to do this on?.?
Go to Admin->Settings and click the Member Notices tab at the top of the page. Create a new notice of type Group Guidelines. There are checkboxes for "send on join" and "send monthly to group."

Hope this helps,
Bruce
 

Bruce,

When we are ready to make the transition, we can not use your automatic transfer method because we have over 7800 registered accounts. We are certain that many of these accounts are unused due to people moving out of our community, etc.

I would recommend using the automated transfer anyway.

Firstly because you can uncheck the box for copying your group members, and have just the content copied. But beware: content in both Yahoo Groups and Groups.io is "owned" by the member who uploaded the content. If the matching email address is not in the Groups.io group then the ownership info is lost, and the item becomes attributed to the person who initiated the transfer. For this reason it is best to let the transfer agent copy over the membership so that as much of the content remains properly attributed as possible.

Secondly, those Y!Group members who have "Bouncing" status will be skipped when copying the members. That alone will trim a lot of your deadwood (though you may mean you have 7800 non-bouncing members). Immediately after the copy operation a number of the copied members will likely get "Bouncing" status in Groups.io. That's because Y!Groups bounce tracking mechanism has been unreliable for some time, and Groups.io will pick up the ones Y!Groups missed. It is also possible in some cases that an email service might reject messages from Groups.io where it had been accepting them from Y!Groups.

Shal


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Bruce Birnel
 

Much thanks. It works.

Bruce

From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, April 30, 2018 at 6:08 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GMF] Automatic Distribution of Messages

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 05:47 pm, Bruce Birnel wrote:
On our old Yahoo egroup, there is a feature whereby we can upload a text document and have that document automatically sent out to the entire membership once a month. We can also have that document automatically sent out to new members upon joining the group. I can not figure out how to do this on?.?
Go to Admin->Settings and click the Member Notices tab at the top of the page. Create a new notice of type Group Guidelines. There are checkboxes for "send on join" and "send monthly to group."

Hope this helps,
Bruce

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