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Email address truncated

Karen Swanson
 

When I try to send group message with a long email address it gets truncated.? That is a real problem when I am trying to share the email address.

ABCGROUPLISTCOORDINATOR@...

This is not my real email address above - just want to see if it get truncated going to you, too.? ?It is used in full in other places.


Culling messages before import

 

Hi again,

I'm looking at the messages in our Yahoo groups that we'll need to either transfer over here or else lose the archives. Many of them don't need to be saved. If I download them in Mbox format, my understanding is that I can open them with Thunderbird (my usual email client) and delete out the cruft and then re-export.

Can I then upload the resulting Mbox file into my group here at Groups.io rather than do a complete transfer? Or is that something that only [email protected] can do? And is there a fee for that?

Thanks,
Su


Re: Backup

 

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For pity sake. As soon as I became a member, I did another search and found what I was looking for, so thank you anyway.

Yes, the blonde, it is real.
Diana

On 10/16/2019 1:56 PM, Diana via Groups.Io wrote:

Hi...I'm a new member, but long-time owner/moderator.? On io, I own the MMarioKKnits group. MMario (Leo Pola, knitting designer) passed away late last year, shocking us all. Now, I'm concerned that this will be the only place that many of his designs - some as yet unknit-will be available.

I'd like to backup our Files section to an external drive, but the only way I can see to do that is one file at a time. This would be a Herculean task; MMario was very prolific. Is there a way about which I don't know, that I may backup all our files at once?

I should add, I have continued ownership of the group that I established with him with his family's full approval.

TIA,
Diana Cooper


Re: Backup

 

Diana,


I'd like to backup our Files section to an external drive,

Go to the Export Group Data tab of your group's Settings page. There you can select what sections you'd like a backup copy of. Groups.io will email you a link where you can download a .zip file when the export is ready.

Shal


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Re: Plain Text Only & other questions

 

On 10/16/19 12:12 PM, Shal Farley wrote:
Sorry, that battle continues here in both versions:
...

Groups.io has two mitigations for bottom quotes: they are stripped from
Digest messages, and when viewing in the Messages section they are
collapsed under a*Show quoted text* button.
But alas not (I gather) from individual email messages.

Thank you for the data. I'm reading more on group.io


Backup

 

Hi...I'm a new member, but long-time owner/moderator.? On io, I own the MMarioKKnits group. MMario (Leo Pola, knitting designer) passed away late last year, shocking us all. Now, I'm concerned that this will be the only place that many of his designs - some as yet unknit-will be available.

I'd like to backup our Files section to an external drive, but the only way I can see to do that is one file at a time. This would be a Herculean task; MMario was very prolific. Is there a way about which I don't know, that I may backup all our files at once?

I should add, I have continued ownership of the group that I established with him with his family's full approval.

TIA,
Diana Cooper


Re: I was told to copy and past this onto my site

 

Bob,


I just found a document with this content noting with the notation:

. said copy and past this onto your site:


Can anyone corroborate this?? Does anyone know exactly where on my Groups.io site I paste it and what it will do?

That looks like the Promote code (found on the Promote page, in the Admin section).

That code isn't to be inserted at Groups.io, but rather into any other personal or organization web site, blog, or other web pages you administer if you wish to provide a join button for your group on that site.

Shal


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I was told to copy and past this onto my site

Bob Gerard
 

When I first set up my group on Groups.io in late August, I was terribly busy discerning exactly how Groups.io worked.

I just found a document with this content noting with the notation:

. said copy and past this onto your site:


Can anyone corroborate this? ?Does anyone know exactly where on my Groups.io site I paste it and what it will do?

Many thanks.






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<div class="classictemplate template" style="display: block;">

<style type="text/css">

? #groupsio_embed_signup input {border:1px solid #999; -webkit-appearance:none;}

? #groupsio_embed_signup label {display:block; font-size:16px; padding-bottom:10px; font-weight:bold;}

? #groupsio_embed_signup .email {display:block; padding:8px 0; margin:0 4% 10px 0; text-indent:5px; width:58%; min-width:130px;}

? #groupsio_embed_signup {

? ? background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;?

? }

? #groupsio_embed_signup .button {

?

? ? ? width:25%; margin:0 0 10px 0; min-width:90px;

? ? ? background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom,#337ab7 0,#265a88 100%);

? ? ? background-repeat: repeat-x;

? ? ? border-color: #245580;

? ? ? text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.2);

? ? ? box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.15),0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.075);

? ? ? padding: 5px 10px;

? ? ? font-size: 12px;

? ? ? line-height: 1.5;

? ? ? border-radius: 3px;

? ? ? color: #fff;

? ? ? background-color: #337ab7;

? ? ? display: inline-block;

? ? ? margin-bottom: 0;

? ? ? font-weight: 400;

? ? ? text-align: center;

? ? ? white-space: nowrap;

? ? ? vertical-align: middle;

? ? }

</style>

<div id="groupsio_embed_signup">

<form action="/g/TechTuesday/signup?u=5801314279385897916" method="post" id="groupsio-embedded-subscribe-form" name="groupsio-embedded-subscribe-form" target="_blank">

? ? <div id="groupsio_embed_signup_scroll">

? ? ? <label for="email" id="templateformtitle">Subscribe to our group</label>

? ? ? <input type="email" value="" name="email" class="email" id="email" placeholder="email address" required="">

?? ?

? ? <div style="position: absolute; left: -5000px;" aria-hidden="true"><input type="text" name="b_5801314279385897916" tabindex="-1" value=""></div>

? ? <div id="templatearchives"></div>

? ? <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="groupsio-embedded-subscribe" class="button">

? </div>

</form>

</div>

</div>


Re: Plain Text Only & other questions

 

y@es,


One of the best features of Yahoo was blocking all HTML crapola giving
the list users legible, readable, text. Some searching here seems to
indicate that exists here in some form. What should I know about that?

There are two related options here:
Normalize HTML Emails - Strip all different fonts and colors from HTML emails.
Plain Text Only - Strip HTML out of messages.

The Normalize option generally gives good results for legibility while preserving the ability to include emphasis (bold, italic) in the text and illustrations inline in the body of the message.


A perennial issue is repliers taking no effort to trim their quoted
text. I once set up a small Mailman list that rejected any post already
containing the Mailman dot.sig; is that viable here?

Sorry, that battle continues here in both versions: convincing email users to trim their bottom-quotes and convincing web users to include enough relevant quote to know what they're talking about.

Groups.io has two mitigations for bottom quotes: they are stripped from Digest messages, and when viewing in the Messages section they are collapsed under a Show quoted text button.
Shal


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Re: Number of Groups.io Members

Pablo Sanchez
 

Hi Duane,

At the end of last week we started the migration of our Yahoo Groups list.? It has about 1,000 members.? As of this writing, our main group is at 553.? I plan on shutting down the old YG list this Sunday.? It'll be a?soft shutdown:? I'll put everything under full moderation.? Anyone who posts for the next week will be told to join us here on groups.io? ;)?

-pablo


Re: Group maintenance???

 

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 04:50 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:
Not sure why he has Friday in the banner.
It now says Thursday!

Chris


Re: Group maintenance???

 

On 10/16/19 11:42 AM, Kathleen Taormina wrote:

The message says this evening and then says Note: groups.io will be
down for maintenance this evening, starting at 2AM Pacific Time (9AM
Friday) today is Wednesday??

My ISP ended confusion by not saying "evening" and instead using "early morning" on all {post-midnight} their maintenance warnings.


Re: Plain Text Only & other questions

 

Hi

You might check out this page in the GMF wiki for an overview of setting up and preferences for your group -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation

Frances

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Re: Group maintenance???

 

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:44 AM, Kathleen Taormina wrote:
The message says this evening and then says?Note: groups.io will be down for maintenance this evening, starting at 2AM Pacific Time (9AM Friday)
today is Wednesday??
In his original notice () Mark said it would be Thursday 10/17 (i.e.: early tomorrow morning in the US).

Groups.io is a global service and depending on your time zone this could be Wednesday evening, etc.

Not sure why he has Friday in the banner.

Bruce


Re: Group maintenance???

 

Quite; I have posted a query about this on beta.

Chris


Re: Plain Text Only & other questions

 

You may find groups.io to be acceptable. When replying from the web site it does not by default quote anything. I use 3rd party email programs so I can choose to quote or not. Phone email users may find it difficult to trim a message reply though.

Donald

On October 16, 2019 11:37:13 AM "y@es" <yahoo@...> wrote:

Hello:

I'm part of the Great Yahoo err Verizon Diaspora seeking a new home.

One of the best features of Yahoo was blocking all HTML crapola giving
the list users legible, readable, text. Some searching here seems to
indicate that exists here in some form. What should I know about that?

A perennial issue is repliers taking no effort to trim their quoted
text. I once set up a small Mailman list that rejected any post already
containing the Mailman dot.sig; is that viable here?




Re: Yahoo Groups death knell?

 

If you pay for a premium group for one year you can move everything over and current members are set up as part of the group. I believe they only have to accept being in the new group when they get the notification email.?

You don't have to pay for it if you just start a new group. With a tool found online you can retrieve the membership list and grab emails to send out invitations. You can also instead just make an announcement in the old group about the move.?

Donald AD8DY?

On October 16, 2019 10:24:56 AM "Walter S. Arnold" <walter@...> wrote:

And of course, typical Yahoo, the announcement on the top of groups pages includes a "learn more" link which is a broken link.

I have a migration question- when we migrate a yahoo group, does it automatically send groups.io invites to all members? We are testing, want to migrate all the message archives and save the member list but not invite the members yet; we we don't want to do that once we see everything is set up the way we want.

?

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Group maintenance???

 

The message says this evening and then says?Note: groups.io will be down for maintenance this evening, starting at 2AM Pacific Time (9AM Friday)
today is Wednesday??


Plain Text Only & other questions

 

Hello:

I'm part of the Great Yahoo err Verizon Diaspora seeking a new home.

One of the best features of Yahoo was blocking all HTML crapola giving the list users legible, readable, text. Some searching here seems to indicate that exists here in some form. What should I know about that?

A perennial issue is repliers taking no effort to trim their quoted text. I once set up a small Mailman list that rejected any post already containing the Mailman dot.sig; is that viable here?


Re: Yahoo Groups death knell?

 

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:08 AM, Walter S. Arnold wrote:
In our case the files and photos belong to the group, so that isn't an issue; but we have the white boxes/empty place holders, and for the past two days haven't been able to see any of those.
Walter -- Yep. Unfortunately, access to Yahoo servers is something that is not within groups.io's control. If you can't see it using Yahoo's own web interface, odds are the transfer agent won't be able to, either. For what it's worth, it seems to affect only files and/or photos...the message archive is usually accessible.

The best time to initiate a transfer is when Yahoo is performing well. Transferring a group costs a one-time payment of $110 (i.e.: one year of Premium access). If you're willing to roll the dice and pay up front, I'd go ahead and get things set up, get the agent invited to your Yahoo group, and then click the "Give Go Ahead to Transfer" button as soon as you notice that Yahoo has gotten their act together.

In the past, Yahoo has usually fixed their problems eventually; but given the recent notice who knows if they will do so this time around.

Good luck,
Bruce