Is there an ongoing problem with delivery to hotmail? We have a complaint from a Hotmail subscriber who has received no group email for a week. His and other hotmail addresses show "Queued mail for delivery -> 250 2.1.5" response in their delivery history.

It took a good week for my transfer to come through, and I repeated the request 3 times. I think they're backlogged with everyone fleeing yahoo.

Terry

Jim,

According to the transfer page it says that I should have heard about
the status and received a message in a day or two. If not to start
the transfer process over again.

A screenshot would help me understand what you're seeing. I don't currently have any transfers in process to compare with.

I have followed the directions carefully but no answers and nothing in
the In process box, ...

What do you mean by "nothing in the In process box"? It is a drop-box, you have to click on it to see the list of your transfers In Process. If you've clicked on the drop button and no Yahoo Group names appear then you haven't actually started a transfer. If one or more Yahoo Group names appear, click on one to bring up its "In Process" (status) page.

so I assume it is taking longer than what the page says.

So far as I know it takes no time for the site to put the Yahoo Group name into the In Process list after you click the "Start Group Transfer Process" button. Hence my desire for a screen shot, as I can't see how the setup page changes after clicking that button (without starting a transfer).

The original request was over a week ago and I have filed updates
to the request as directed.

If you've been clicking the Update Transfer button your transfer request that may be putting you to the back of the queue each time. But I think that button is only on the In Process page, which you say you can't find. So how is it that you "file updates to the request" and where is that directed?

It appears that the only way I will know if the invite is delivered to
[email protected] will be if I receive an email or some kind of post
to the Yahoo page.

A banner on the In Process page should tell you. See the screenshot here: /g/GroupManagersForum/message/10162

Can anyone tell me if there is a problem with my request or if there
is a longer delay than on the Transfer Page?

Aside from what you can learn from the user interface, only [email protected] can tell you anything about what's going on behind the scenes.

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I am curious about the process beyond what information I can find or have seen here and in other posts. ?

According to the transfer page it says that I should have heard about the status and received a message in a day or two. ? If not to start the transfer process over again.

I have followed the directions carefully but no answers and nothing in the In process box, so I assume it is taking longer than what the page says.? The original request was over a week ago and I have filed updates to the request as directed.? It appears that the only way I will know if the invite is delivered to [email protected] will be if I receive? an email or some kind of post to the Yahoo page.

Can anyone tell me if there is a problem with my request or if there is a longer delay than on the Transfer Page?

Jim

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Thanks - appreciate the help, and will work on it. The spreadsheet in question has about 20 columns, but I tested with a few, and it imported easily.

Apparently, though, you have to include ALL columns when you set it up; you can't do them in stages. At least not in a way this techno-novice can figure out.

Terry

Terry,

Strange that you can't just upload an existing table, though.

Not really. You need to define the Type and other attributes for each column, and those can't necessarily be inferred from the csv data.

But I will agree that the UI could be a lot friendlier about it. And in particular it ought to be possible to import the table with a default column type and extract the column Names from the first row of the csv.
cf:

Or better still would be something like Excel's Text-to-columns wizard which allows you to interactively define the column types while viewing a preview of a few rows.

Can it be Yahoo has an easier system? Wouldn't have expected that.

Easier, but more limited in capability.

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Thanks -

Strange that you can't just upload an existing table, though.

Can it be Yahoo has an easier system? Wouldn't have expected that.

Terry

Terry,

I want to import an existing Excel file into the database of my group.
Any suggestions? Not seeing it working when I tried the import table
with a csv file.

As I recall the secret handshake is to create the table with column names that exactly match the text of (and perhaps the order of) the names in the header row of the csv file. As if that was obvious.

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I want to import an existing Excel file into the database of my group. Any suggestions? Not seeing it working when I tried the import table with a csv file.
Thanks

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Member-Notices

Frances

stopthethyroidmadness,

And yes, with my new io group, I do have a response sent to them as a
pending member. But do I have to give my email to all pending
members?? At least Yahoo has an "Owner email" to use that protects the
privacy of my email.

Groups.io does as well - it is listed on your group's home page with the other group email addresses.

There are two differences versus Yahoo Groups, one trivial the other less so.

The trivial difference is that it is spelled groupname+owner rather than groupname-owner.

The less trivial difference is that you have (each mod and owner has) a setting in your Subscription page that controls whether +owner messages are forwarded to you. You can choose "All Emails" (which is the same as Y!Groups function), "Subscribers Only" or "None".

I generally recommend that at least one owner or mod in each group accept +owner messages from "All Emails" - just so that pending members and others trying to join the group can reach someone.

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I am having a challenge figuring this out. Yes, with my Yahoo group, they are required to prove why they are qualified to join the group...and they use a field to do so.?

And yes, with my new io group, I do have a response sent to them as a pending member. But do I have to give my email to all pending members?? At least Yahoo has an "Owner email" to use that protects the privacy of my email.?

Anybody know the solution to this??

?

Where do I go that will require a new member request to include a message from them as to why they are qualified to join???

On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 12:37 PM, KA5DWI wrote:

Be patient.
I have been waiting for over a month.
When I get time, I will do it manually.
Regards
Art

Art -- It should not take a month. Have you visited the group transfer page lately? What does it say at the top?

Bruce
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Milt,

BigTent responded saying that they will not take action on requests
from anyone other than the current moderator of a group, so we will
funnel our request through the current moderator. I'll do a post here
on any response we receive.

I'm confused.

From yesterday's post I thought you already had a response - and a very positive one at that!
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/11476

I had meant to reply to that message but hadn't gotten to it yet. So I guess now's the time.

The dump was in .tgz format, and our tech guru, Bob Leder,
successfully created a simple python program to convert the entries
from that dump into email messages and mail them individually to our
groups.io group. They're showing up just perfectly on the new group.

Presumably they're showing as From Bob, and with the date he ran the program. Did he include the original poster's name and the original date in his (program's) messages?

In any case though, bravo!

It seems to me that something of the sort could be done with messages caught in any proprietary format - such as a PG Offline export of a Yahoo Group, or an mbox export from a Mailman list, or ...

Shal




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Donald,

To save Shal the trouble, these are the changes Mark has made to the
groups.io system.

That would be:

Feel free to discuss any of these items.

I normally like to start off with some commentary on at least one of the items. Though some weeks none of them particularly excite me.

CHANGE: Tweaked the wording of 'Default Post Policy' and 'Default
group policy' to be more clear.

Now the Actions menu and the Posting Privileges option in the member's page both say "Use Group Moderation Setting".

You're welcome.
(I'd suggested the change in a request to support)

CHANGE: Disable Action button on Members page if no members are
selected.

You're welcome.



Shal
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Be patient.
I have been waiting for over a month.
When I get time, I will do it manually.
Regards
Art

To save Shal the trouble, these are the changes Mark has made to the
groups.io system. Feel free to discuss any of these items.

Donald
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Changes to the site this week:

INTERNAL: Tested database backups.

INTERNAL: Changed the internals of the database APIs to better deal
with the new connection pooling system.

CHANGE: Tweaked the wording of 'Default Post Policy' and 'Default
group policy' to be more clear.

BUGFIX: Couldn't delete a topic that had previously had a hashtag that
had been deleted.

BUGFIX: Fixed a race condition in the test topics page when deleting
topics.

CHANGE: In the Files section, display the Updated field instead of the
Created field for Uploaded date.

CHANGE: Disable Action button on Members page if no members are
selected.

CHANGE: Tweaked URL text in confirmation email to match the URL
itself.

BigTent responded saying that they will not take action on requests from anyone other than the current moderator of a group, so we will funnel our request through the current moderator.? I'll do a post here on any response we receive.

Milt Baker

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