Re: Closing the Yahoo group
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Hi Michael
I have made a note of your 'instructions' they will come in handy over the next weeks and months. Good idea to keep the 'old' site.
Many thanks,
Barbara
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> Many thanks for previous help with the move to Groups.io which I and members are happy with. However, I have noticed that our Yahoo group still exists and one or two members have unwittingly posted there. Is it time to close it down completely or will this just happen in due course without input from me? If it's up to me, then how do I go about it?
No need to ¡®close it down completely¡¯.
In the groups I moved I:
-updated the YahooGroups Group Description page (¡°About") to announce the move and URL of the new Groups.io
-put everyone on Moderation (including myself) to prevent new posts on YahooGroups
-turned off YahooGroups Notifications for everyone except myself
-sent out a YahooGroups Special Notice (re)announcing the move, the new URL, and the new posting address
-sent out a Groups.io Special Notice announcing the move, the new URL, and the new posting address
Occasionally someone tries to post to the old YahooGroup, when I get the notification:
- I 'reject their message and reply¡¯ through the YahooGroup reminding them of the move and new posting address
- check that they were moved to Groups.io
- sometimes follow up with a message direct to them
Keep the old YahooGroups - they are a ¡®backup¡¯ archive, in case you discover something missing in the move, e.g. YahooGroups has an Attachments folder in Files, Groups.io does not move Attachments from YahooGroups. YahooGroups Attachments must be downloaded and then uploaded to Groups.io Files one by one, which changes the ¡®ownership¡¯ of the attachment/file if not done by the sender of the attachment.
BTW, Groups.io does keep Attachments attached to Groups.io Messages, which requires posters to use a good Subject line to make it easy to locate, and/or Moderation to Edit, Save & Approval Messages to correct Subject lines.
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