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how to find all posts by a past member?

J_Catlady
 

I'm trying to find all posts by a past member. I found a couple of them by searching on subjects I remembered the person had posted in, but from there I draw a blank. I can't do "all posts by this member" because she's no longer a member (and/or because the posts were before we moved from yahoo) - the option doesn't come up under "More." And a search on either her name or email address comes up blank. At ?the top of the messages by her that I found is

HerName <her-email-name@...>

yet searching on either "HerName" or "her-email-name" brings up nothing.

Is there anything I can do? Is this a bug??

Thanks.

J
 

It must be that her posts came from Y!? I looked in one of my groups and posts by folks that have left are still shown using "all posts by this member" in the More menu.? I also searched the Activity log using the user name contained in the email address (or the complete email address) and found when they were posted that way.? I didn't copy messages from Y! on my groups, so can't do further testing.

Duane
J_Catlady
 

That's right, all her posts were from when we were in yahoo. But why doesn't the search on her name or email address prefix (name sans the domain), which are at the top of every message of hers, bring up nothing?

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Duane <txpigeon@...> wrote:
It must be that her posts came from Y!? I looked in one of my groups and posts by folks that have left are still shown using "all posts by this member" in the More menu.? I also searched the Activity log using the user name contained in the email address (or the complete email address) and found when they were posted that way.? I didn't copy messages from Y! on my groups, so can't do further testing.

Duane


J_Catlady
 

I'll try the activity log, but I haven't had success with that in the past. Last time I tried to search by email address in the activity log, it was bringing up the entire log and I reported a bug. Maybe that's been fixed.

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Duane <txpigeon@...> wrote:
It must be that her posts came from Y!? I looked in one of my groups and posts by folks that have left are still shown using "all posts by this member" in the More menu.? I also searched the Activity log using the user name contained in the email address (or the complete email address) and found when they were posted that way.? I didn't copy messages from Y! on my groups, so can't do further testing.

Duane


J_Catlady
 

oops, the activity log is not going to show anything since this was in the dark ages of yahoo.

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:59 PM, J_Olivia Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote:
I'll try the activity log, but I haven't had success with that in the past. Last time I tried to search by email address in the activity log, it was bringing up the entire log and I reported a bug. Maybe that's been fixed.

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Duane <txpigeon@...> wrote:
It must be that her posts came from Y!? I looked in one of my groups and posts by folks that have left are still shown using "all posts by this member" in the More menu.? I also searched the Activity log using the user name contained in the email address (or the complete email address) and found when they were posted that way.? I didn't copy messages from Y! on my groups, so can't do further testing.

Duane



 

J,
Doesn't the All messaged by this member, which is in the More drop down at the end of a message perform this for you?
I just found I've posted over 700 times in our main group.? I'm rather shy.
--
Bob Bellizzi

The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation
 

J,

I can't do "all posts by this member" because she's no longer a member
(and/or because the posts were before we moved from yahoo) - the
option doesn't come up under "More."
Works for me with a member who joined and left the Groups.io group.
Works also for me with a message that was posted in the group at Yahoo.
That is, the More menu has the "All Posts By This Member" item, and it works.

So far I haven't found a case that exactly matches your description (a post made at Yahoo by a member who left from Groups.io). So maybe that's the "secret sauce", but I'm more inclined to think that perhaps something went wrong when your group's messages were imported to Groups.io, and at least some members' messages didn't get connected to their email ID. Maybe the person changed email address at some point between the posting and the transfer?

Is there anything I can do? Is this a bug?
That may be a fair question for support: Under what conditions would the "All Posts By This Member" item be missing from a message posting, and can that be corrected.

Shal
 

J,

But why doesn't the search on her name or email address prefix (name
sans the domain), which are at the top of every message of hers, bring
up nothing?
I think the search is only on the message body, not any of the header fields or other metadata.

A field for filtering by email address (mods only?) and one for display name are clearly needed in the "Tools" pane.

Shal

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