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Obviously the Verizon/Yahoo deal has now scared me into action. I have secured my groups name in IO. I want to secure all of the member email addresses from YahooGroups BUT not yet go live with the IO group. Is this possible?

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Thanks in advance for your help & any great advice that you can offer,

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Ruthie Levi(a newbie here, but i recognize some of your names from YahooGroups, so I feel at home already!)
 

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:16 pm, Ruth Levi wrote:

Obviously the Verizon/Yahoo deal has now scared me into action. I have
secured my groups name in IO. I want to secure all of the member email
addresses from YahooGroups BUT not yet go live with the IO group. Is this
possible?
Yes, you can ask to transfer the member list only. But every member will get a message about the transfer. If you later ask for Messages to be transferred, any messages posted to the .io group will be erased. Put the .io group on "only moderators can post" before you ask to transfer Members.

And keep email notifications of new members to the yahooGroup after the member list transfer. You'll have to invite them to the .io group, they'll have to accept invitation (with a click or a reply). Or you can pay .io $10 for one month in order to be able to add them (moderators of free groups cannot add members).
J_Catlady
 

Is it really true that 'any messages posted to the io group will be erased' in this situation? I was not aware of that and I don't think that's correct.

J

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On Jun 20, 2017, at 12:03 AM, Lena <Lena@...> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:16 pm, Ruth Levi wrote:

Obviously the Verizon/Yahoo deal has now scared me into action. I have
secured my groups name in IO. I want to secure all of the member email
addresses from YahooGroups BUT not yet go live with the IO group. Is this
possible?
Yes, you can ask to transfer the member list only. But every member will get a message about the transfer. If you later ask for Messages to be transferred, any messages posted to the .io group will be erased. Put the .io group on "only moderators can post" before you ask to transfer Members.

And keep email notifications of new members to the yahooGroup after the member list transfer. You'll have to invite them to the .io group, they'll have to accept invitation (with a click or a reply). Or you can pay .io $10 for one month in order to be able to add them (moderators of free groups cannot add members).
 

Hi Lena and all,

I think a better approach would be to transfer everything and then transfer the last few messages in a batch. I raised a suggestion to that effect on the beta group, but I haven't heard back yet.

This may be an academic point, since the Yahoo!Groups product does not appear in the updated list of brands on the Oath website.

David.


On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 03:43 am, Lena wrote:
Yes, you can ask to transfer the member list only. But every member will get a message about the transfer. If you later ask for Messages to be transferred, any messages posted to the .io group will be erased. Put the .io group on "only moderators can post" before you ask to transfer Members.

And keep email notifications of new members to the yahooGroup after the member list transfer. You'll have to invite them to the .io group, they'll have to accept invitation (with a click or a reply). Or you can pay .io $10 for one month in order to be able to add them (moderators of free groups cannot add members).
 

When I transferred my group, messages on the new group were retained. What was lost was the chronological ordering by message number. So the messages by number started with the new messages on the new group, followed by the messages on the Yahoo group in chronological order, followed later by messages on the new group received after the transfer.

Has this changed?
 

J is correct here. Messages will not be deleted. In fact, while my archives were being transferred, some members posted new messages, and those fell into the number order of messages being transferred. If I sort by message number instead of by date, there are recent messages that are many years out of place in the numbering because of that. But no messages were lost.

Dano

Is it really true that 'any messages posted to the io group will be
erased' in this situation? I was not aware of that and I don't think
that's correct.

J

Yes, you can ask to transfer the member list only. But every
member will get a message about the transfer. If you later ask
for Messages to be transferred, any messages posted to the
.io group will be erased. Put the .io group on "only moderators
can post" before you ask to transfer Members.
 

Ruthie,

I want to secure all of the member email addresses from YahooGroups
BUT not yet go live with the IO group. Is this possible?
As Lena said, when the transfer agent copies your members list from Yahoo, it also sends a welcome message to each. So in that sense you'd "go live" at that point.

One thing you could do would be to set the IO group to "Announce Only" before starting the transfer. Also you'd want to tell your members what's going on so that they don't panic about the unexpected welcome message, nor attempt to post there until you actually go live.

This might be moot at the moment, until Mark finds a way around Yahoo/Verizon's recent change that prevents him from accessing the Yahoo Groups.

Shal
 

mark has emailed me directly that, in fact, he can turn off that welcome msg when/if(now) we do the member list transfer. that was very welcome news. of course, all is on hold now & mark has way more important things to help us with. wishing him success!!

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