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Ease of transfer of group from Yahoo? Capacity at IO? #transfer

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Dear IO and Dear Group Managers,

Serious question -- with the current system outage over at YahooGroups, I am seriously considering moving my Yahoo Groups here, as there have been positive reviews.

Several questions --?

1.? Is it easy to transfer the groups?

2.? What implications for the member?? Especially, will they have to create a new account here, or if they to date have been only using the YahooGroup via their email to send and receive messages, will it be a seamless transfer with no verification step necessary?

3.? If *everyone* having trouble at YahooGroups is getting the same advice, to transfer to Groups.io, how is capacity?? Are you going to be able to handle the deluge?

Many many thanks,
I may make the move in the next few hours...

Michelle
(moderator in Geneva, Switzerland)
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1. yes
2. no, it¡¯s created automatically
3. probably, so get moving!

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On Nov 23, 2017, at 6:22 AM, michellefiore@... wrote:

Dear IO and Dear Group Managers,

Serious question -- with the current system outage over at YahooGroups, I am seriously considering moving my Yahoo Groups here, as there have been positive reviews.

Several questions --?

1.? Is it easy to transfer the groups?

2.? What implications for the member?? Especially, will they have to create a new account here, or if they to date have been only using the YahooGroup via their email to send and receive messages, will it be a seamless transfer with no verification step necessary?

3.? If *everyone* having trouble at YahooGroups is getting the same advice, to transfer to , how is capacity?? Are you going to be able to handle the deluge?

Many many thanks,
I may make the move in the next few hours...

Michelle
(moderator in Geneva, Switzerland)

 

Am 23.11.2017 um 15:22 schrieb michellefiore@...:
Dear IO and Dear Group Managers,
Serious question -- with the current system outage over at YahooGroups, I am seriously considering moving my Yahoo Groups here, as there have been positive reviews.
Several questions --
1.? Is it easy to transfer the groups?
very easy

see: /static/transfer

2.? What implications for the member?? Especially, will they have to create a new account here,
no

or if they to date have been only using the YahooGroup via their email to send and receive messages, will it be a seamless transfer with no verification step necessary?
there is one email with a link that they have to click on and one inital login - everything is done for them

transferred 3 large mailing lists

servus

markus



3.? If *everyone* having trouble at YahooGroups is getting the same advice, to transfer to Groups.io, how is capacity?? Are you going to be able to handle the deluge?
Many many thanks,
I may make the move in the next few hours...
Michelle
(moderator in Geneva, Switzerland)

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Michelle -
I have moved three of my own groups (one with extensive message archives)?and oversaw the moves of a number more. The most difficult thing was to remember to make the 'transfer' email address a moderator of your Yahoo group. To be honest, I think it takes longer to explain the process than it does to do it. If there are problems afterward, use the help email and Mark can straighten out about anything. I'm sure it's even smoother since I moved my groups.
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As for the members, most of mine never noticed. I had to remind them to change their address books to show the new group address and to send messages to the correct address, but otherwise there was nothing but praise from most of them. I left my old Yahoo groups running but set to full moderation so I could catch those who forgot.
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If you run into any problems with managing the move or dealing with issues that may arise, bring them here to this group. I would guess there are already thousands of groups that have moved, and waiting will only risk losing your information if Yahoo finally scuttles itself.
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Dear IO and Dear Group Managers,

Serious question -- with the current system outage over at YahooGroups, I am seriously considering moving my Yahoo Groups here, as there have been positive reviews.

Several questions --?

1.? Is it easy to transfer the groups?

2.? What implications for the member?? Especially, will they have to create a new account here, or if they to date have been only using the YahooGroup via their email to send and receive messages, will it be a seamless transfer with no verification step necessary?

3.? If *everyone* having trouble at YahooGroups is getting the same advice, to transfer to Groups.io, how is capacity?? Are you going to be able to handle the deluge?

Many many thanks,
I may make the move in the next few hours...

Michelle
(moderator in Geneva, Switzerland)
 

Michelle,

Dear IO and Dear Group Managers,
For the record, Groups.io is not here - this is a volunteer-run help group. Groups.io has the official groups update and beta, plus email support at [email protected]

2. What implications for the member?
They will receive a welcome notice from Groups.io, and optionally one you set up before the transfer to be sent to them. Most of their subscription settings (Individual/Digest etc.) will be copied over from their Yahoo Group settings.

Especially, will they have to create a new account here,
Only for web access to members-only areas of your group. Fortunately the process is very simple.

or if they to date have been only using the YahooGroup via their email
to send and receive messages, will it be a seamless transfer with no
verification step necessary?
The members will immediately begin receiving group messages (per their subscription settings for Individual/Digest/Special/None) and may immediately begin posting by email - no verification step needed for that.

3. If *everyone* having trouble at YahooGroups is getting the same
advice, to transfer to Groups.io, how is capacity? Are you going to
be able to handle the deluge?
Groups.io buys web service and storage from large web services companies, so I think the capacity can expand dynamically as needed.

As I understand it there is some manual involvement by support (Mark) in setting up and starting each transfer, so he may be getting a bit busy.

Shal

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