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Re: Closing the Yahoo group

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Oh yeah that is another reason to leave the Y group open.
In many cases old Ads Letters are still in circulation so someone may visit the Y group and try to join.
Then they would be directed to the IO group from the home page at Y directing them to IO.
And in the rare case they do try to join, the pending application message will send them to IO group.
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So you can use the Y group as a tool for advertising.
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One of my Y groups, I deleted everyone from the group.
The others I made it so no one is allowed to post to the group.
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The Y group did come in handy to get a message from me to the members when unexpectedly some of the IO groups were done a while ago. I sent a message to the Y group to let the members know.
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Ilene
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From: Epicatt2
Date: 9/3/2018 12:49:15 PM
Subject: Re: [GMF] Closing the Yahoo group
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Hello Barbara,
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We had the same situation with our relict Yahoo group after moving to GIO.
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What I did was change the message in the masthead photo on the main page to say that we had moved to GIO and to come see us there.??But I left the YGroup in place as a signpost to our new GIO group.
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Well at first that didn't stop a few of the die-hard members from trying to post on the old YGroup so I changed it so that all posts would have to be approved by a moderator AND I also posted a message to the group titled, 'This is the Final Post to CRL' in which I announced (yet again) that we had moved and provide a URL to the new GIO group.
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Now in the very rare case that someone tries to post to the old YGroup I get an alert that there is a post needing approval.??Then I reject the post and include??a note giving directions to the member for where to join us on GIO.
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We have been moved now since the end of June of this year and the posts to the old group have all stopped now.
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I'd suggest just leaving your old YGroup in place as a signpost to your new GIO group but set the old one as inactive so that no one can post to it.
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Cheers!
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Paul M.
CRL Owner/Moderator
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