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Hi Judy,

I wrote:

Just before clicking the "Go" button, send a Special Notice to the
Yahoo Group letting them know that the time has come, ...

Also, in my most recent go-around I exported the Y!Group's Membership List in TSV format (the group had fewer than 1000 members) and pulled that into Excel. Three I sorted by email Delivery, and used BCC in from my Gmail account to send a copy of that "time has come" message to all the members set to No Email.

That might have been over the top, and a few of those messages bounced, but it wasn't that much effort and (so far) none of them have objected to receiving the off list message from me.

After the transfer completes I'm considering taking the Y!Group's Bouncing list and sending them an Invitation. They won't have heard anything about the move, and they won't have been copied by the transfer agent. And indeed likely most of them are truly dead addresses that will bounce when I send the invite.

But experience has shown that Y!Groups does sometimes have working addresses on the Bouncing list. Just as sometimes a dead address is not listed as bouncing - and those will immediately go bouncing in your Groups.io group.

Shal


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Hi Judy,

In an automatic transfer, which email address will be the one used?

The only email address that Groups.io learns is the one listed in your group's Manage Members list. I think some of the newer members might have email addresses in the "Yahoo Profile" column as well, but it is only the email address in the "Email" column that is of interest to the transfer agent.

Are there any other pitfalls I should be aware of before I commence
please?

Undoubtedly. ;-)

See also:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Transfer-from-Yahoo-Groups
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Welcome-Message-for-Yahoo-Group-transfer

If you think you might want subgroups to your group do that research and decide before the transfer, or well after it. The first subgroup you create makes a permanent change to the format of your group's web and email addresses. So it is best to have that sorted out before so that the members don't see it as another change. Or wait until they're settled in before springing that change on them.

Let the Y!Group know as far in advance as you can that you will be making the move. You don't need specifics (and maybe should avoid them) before the actual move, but it makes sense to get the idea "out there" so it won't come as a shock when you do it. Remind them a couple or three times, but know that even so there are some who won't get the message.

Make a new Welcome message tailored specifically for the transfer, name it something like Transfer Welcome, and make it active immediately before giving the "Go". Then after completion make the normal Welcome message active. You can carefully craft the subject line and body of the Transfer Welcome to match the style and tone of your group, and to fit with what you've told them in advance.

Decide whether or not you want to check the box for Groups.io to send its "You have been added to [groupaddress]" message at the completion of the copying. I've generally left it enabled, but some here have reported that it can spook the members, and that too many take the offered "opt out" that comes with it. Despite being all 60-ish in age, and highly varied in computer skills, my group members apparently didn't have an adverse reaction to it.

Just before clicking the "Go" button, send a Special Notice to the Yahoo Group letting them know that the time has come, and that they should watch for your Welcome message from the new list (and optionally the aforementioned "You have been added" message. That (or those) messages will tell them the new web address and new posting address for the list, and they can begin posting in the new list as soon as they get it (them).

Shal


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