Really good questions, Robert. I often wonder about bouncing members. I used to remove them after trying unsuccessfully to unbounded them especially if they had signed up long long ago. Then I think I understood they might actually still be receiving email at a different linked address so I stopped removing bouncing members. Not sure if that is a correct assumption.
"This message cannot be viewed because it was sent from another group" can be explained. I think it just refers to the last email sent by the yahoo member who may have sent it from a different group in which case you are obviously not allowed to read it if you are not a member as well. It gives you an idea of when the member was last active in yahoo groups generally.
Louise
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My Yahoo group hardly ever gets used. Of my 211 listed members 68 are bouncing. They joined between 2003 and 2011. Because it is a health related group, I suspect (fear) many if not all of these are perhaps no longer with us. Also most have Yahoo email addresses against their membership and the last bouncing message says something to the effect "this person no longer has a Yahoo email account". Others (non Yahoo) say "unreachable" whilst some say "(This message cannot be viewed because it was sent from another group)" which seems strange.
Anyway. If I transfer my list to I understand bouncing members get removed in the process. Or if I were first to remove them myself, could they, if still with us, whilst the group is still on Yahoo, get to read the messages from the Group page? I feel slightly nervous about assuming bouncing members are no longer with us, even though I do suspect it, when in fact they might still be.
Also Yahoo used to provide code to insert a joining link and graphic into a webpage. Does do this too?
Robert
