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We're about to go live on a new Groups.io group formed because BigTent is closing down.? The old BigTent group has 200+ members, and BigTent has provided us with a list of their email addresses.

Can anyone here tell me whether we can we invite that many to join the new group, or will we have to do it a few at a time?? Yesterday I sent invites via the group to 19 beta testers and Groups.io didn't bounce any of them, so it looks like we're good to go for at least that many.? I think I'll try 50 at a time and see what happens unless someone here has more info.

In porting over hundreds of discussions (messages) from the BigTent group we found that Groups.io would not allow us to post more than 20 at a time and then required 20 minutes without posting any before it would allow us to start again--almost certainly a spam-blocking mechanism.? Our tech guru wrote a short program to make that happen, so copying over the messages went smooth as silk.? Only problem is that they are now in random order.? It would be nice to be able to put them in chronological order but we have not figured out how to do that--no big deal.

Any info on any of the above would be?welcomed!

Many thanks,

Milt Baker

P.S. The group's first beta testers are beginning to report in and they like the functionality of Groups.io.

When I moved my groups from yahoo, one of them had close to 400 members.? I divided my listed into approximate thirds, and posted those for invites to be sent.? It actually took very little time, and I was notified after each batch was sent.? I would then post the second batch.? It took total a bit over a day, mainly because I didn't rush back to see when groups.io was ready for the next batch to be posted.? I think you could easily do it, possibly all at once, but in two sections.

Cacky

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 04:23 PM, Milt Baker wrote:

Can anyone here tell me whether we can we invite that many to join the new group

You can invite everyone at once.? There may be a small delay before they actually get sent if it requires approval.? It's used as a spammer preventative.? It only occurs when there are more than 20 in a 24 hour period and may not happen on subsequent batches.

Duane
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Milt,

Can anyone here tell me whether we can we invite that many to join the
new group, or will we have to do it a few at a time?

Confirming what Duane said, you can invite them all at one time - I've invited up to several hundred at once, others probably more. The only hitch is that the invites will likely be briefly held for review by Groups.io - usually less than a day.

Only problem is that they are now in random order. It would be nice
to be able to put them in chronological order but we have not figured
out how to do that--no big deal.

I don't think there's any way to set or adjust the posting time when posting them as you are doing; but if your process posted them in order they ought to have remained in order.

If the messages as posted retain some of the original message header fields, especially the Date field, you might ask [email protected] to copy that field into the database such that the messages appear to have been posted "back then". That would likely be something they'd have to do as a "one-off" bit of database manipulation, but maybe if you catch Mark in a good mood... ;-)

Shal


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I recently sent 75 invitations to a new policy / political group I started.? I believe it got blocked at about 30 or 40 invitations, however I was surprised how fast they approved the rest.? Maybe I just got lucky, but they got to it in less than a half hour.??