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Attachments were not sent with digests on Yahoo. Are they on Groups?

We were one of the groups who summarily had all the attachments in our files deleted. That meant all the records from the formation of multi-million $ housing community were lost. I started reminding everyone to both use attachment but to paste the information into the message so it couldn’t be separated and lost.

Is there anything to be cautious of in attachments now?

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC

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On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 05:09 pm, Sharon Villines wrote:

Attachments were not sent with digests on Yahoo. Are they on Groups?

Yes. Large attachments may be sent as links, but are still stored on the server.

We were one of the groups who summarily had all the attachments in our files deleted. That meant all the records from the formation of multi-million $ housing community were lost. I started reminding everyone to both use attachment but to paste the information into the message so it couldn’t be separated and lost.

I find myself very disconcerted by your use of "summarily" in this context. The transfer instructions are quite clear that message attachments are not migrated. Also, they were in no sense "lost"...they were still right there, in your Yahoo group. You could have gone there and rescued them...or continued to use Yahoo, if it was that important.

Is there anything to be cautious of in attachments now?

Be aware that they take up part of your [1 GB?] storage allocation and -- depending on your settings -- old ones may get deleted when you exceed that allocation.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

I find myself very disconcerted by your use of "summarily" in this context. The transfer instructions are quite clear that message attachments are not migrated.

No, no, no. The were deleted by Yahoo years ago. Yahoo just decided one day to strip all attachments from messages. After that they were stored separately in files, but anything before that was gone.

Also are attachments sent with digests?

We find that people don’t look at attachments if they aren’t delivered. That may change because Groups.Io is so much faster but the time to wait for yahoo to open, then locate the file is more than some people will take.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC
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On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:39 pm, Sharon Villines wrote:

No, no, no. They were deleted by Yahoo years ago. Yahoo just decided one day to strip all attachments from messages.?

Sorry...I thought you were talking about something that happened during the transfer. Typical Y!G behavior, though.

Also are attachments sent with digests?

We find that people don’t look at attachments if they aren’t delivered.?

Attachments are sent based on the user's (and the group default) subscription preferences. See "Max Attachment Size" under Subscription->Advance Preferences and also under Admin->Settings-Default Sub Settings (button at the top of the group Settings page). Bottom line is that you set a default for your group which an individual subscriber can override with their subscriber settings.

I have my group(s) set to a default of 5 MB because a few ISP's will bounce messages bigger than that, which (as you might imagine) creates its own problems. The downside is that if a subscriber does send a huge attachment and it arrives to another subscriber as a link, the second one will have to log in before they can download it, and [all too often] become confused when confronted with the login page.

The only impact the email delivery setting has on this (individual vs digest) is that with the digest setting attachments could accumulate over several messages. Therefore a digest is more likely to contain hyperlinks instead of the original documents if you set up any email size restriction...or get really big if you don't.

Pick your poison,
Bruce

P.S. I'm told that GIO will forward any message up to some ridiculous number like 95 MB...so that's not likely to become a bottleneck.
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