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Thanks Shal.

Yes, I know what the process is (although I haven't needed to use it since the
time limit was introduced) and that workaround is pretty obvious to someone who
is reasonably clued up. I vaguely remember the timescale being discussed some
time ago on beta. Does the green banner you refer to mention the short time
scale? If not perhaps I should raise that on beta? It seems essential for some
people.

Jim

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Forget Google! I search with which doesn't spy on you

I anticipate that many of the people on my list will probably never need to log in to the groups.io site, and many are also technically challenged.? That said, the RSVP feature could be useful since our group holds events frequently, so I've been trying it out with a couple folks that were direct added to my group.? (In time everyone will be direct added).

When they try to RSVP, it asks for a login/password which they don't have.? The only options I see for them to continue at that point are to:
1) Do 'forgot password' and set up an account
2) Direct them to get a temporary link for sign-in.?

Unfortunately this pretty much ends the process for most of our users.? Is there a better option that I've missed?

Thanks,
Christine

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Last year I suffered a ransomware attack thru an attached photo in an e-mail.
Are photos (uploaded and attached) scanned for malware in groups.io?
A search in this group had zero results.

KEN

"It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in
men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling
are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest,
sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are
the traits of success." STEINBECK - CANNERY ROW

I am considering moving the group I manage on YahooGroups to another software base. This potentially would mean releasing names and email addresses to a third party. It thus falls under the remit of the UK Data Protection Act 1984? and then the even more stringent forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) from May 2018. In the latter, implied consent (with an opt out for such an action) may not be legal.

How have other list managers dealt with this issue?

Margaret Parker
Leeds, UK

Is there a way to edit and change format (hot pink) while approving?

Nancy

Thanks for the replies. I will download them and upload to the group, which brings up another question. Is it possible to somehow keep the original uploaders name as the person that uploaded the file? Tried it with one and it put my ID as Uploaded By.

Pamela

All,
I set the size limit in e-mails to a smaller 488x488 maximum,
while images in Photos are limited to a larger 1024 x 1024.

However I don't see a means of limiting photo type.
A Jpeg 488 x 488 image is much smaller than a 488x488 Bitmap.

Is there any way to restrict wasteful image types like Bitmap?
Other than encouraging use of Jpegs?

KEN

"It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in
men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling
are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest,
sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are
the traits of success." STEINBECK - CANNERY ROW

Marv,

10% are bouncing. That is more troubling.

Not necessarily. Y!Groups bounce tracking has had problems for several years, and these may be addresses which should have been listed as Bouncing at Y!Groups, but for one reason or another weren't.

I posted on the Y! group that members should be receiving posts from
groups.io and to adjust their anti-spam if they are not.

And particularly if their email service uses a "challenge" type of anti-spam they may need to explicitly white-list groups.io.

Shal

Marv,

I suppose I am asking if groups.io can track reads on posts.

I think it has been suggested, but no.

And of course, any attempt to track whether email messages are opened would be problematic.

Shal

I have many databases in our group, and I'v noticed something peculiar when I do a search on one of them. Six dbases have some information found in all of them, and when I do a search for a particular item in one dbase, the results of the search will also display that particular information in the other dbases, along with what I'm looking for. It's like these dbases are connected, so a search in one is a search in all of them. This does not seem like a normal operation to me. Is it?

Don

Johnny,

Hi, I wanted to transfer my adults only yahoo group to groups.io, but
I cannot find any info that adult groups are allowed on here.

It depends on the group's content:
/static/adult
(That link is in the TOS)

... if so how do I make my group available to adults only.

As Duane said, there is no mechanism to do that.

If you decide that your group fits within the content guidelines you might want to make the group's content members-only and restrict membership to people you approve.

Shal

Jim,

That time limit is nevertheless ridiculously short, and I fail to
understand the reason for it.

You can blame J for that.
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/3574
(Just teasing!)

If I follow a link within one of those messages, as in the case
described, I would not see the response for about 24 hours (and could
be several days if I happened to be away from home the following
days).

It takes more than following the link in the email.

One then must click on the button that says "Email me a link to login". After you click that button the web site puts up a green banner that says "An email has been sent to you with a link to log into your account". If you click that button and then don't bother to check your email within several minutes I'd say that's on you.

Besides, apart from wasting some of your time the consequence is harmless. Learn from your mistake and click the button at a time when you are prepared to check your email.

Shal

"If the files are particularly valuable to the group you might reply to the message, or forward it to support, and ask if another attempt might be made to retrieve them once Y!Groups stabilizes."

Or you could do what I did, and download the files to your computer from Y, then upload them to your group Files on G. It's tedious work, but I got the job done.

Don

Pamela,

My question is why did it not transfer any of the files over?

Probably the copying software couldn't access any of the group's files.

That could be a result of the current rash of outages in Y!Groups - Files in particular is often mentioned as missing. Recently I couldn't access the Files section of Y!GMF, but today I can.

I've also read in Y!GMF that the transfer agent seems to have trouble retrieving files that are inside folders (rather than being on the main Files page itself).

If the files are particularly valuable to the group you might reply to the message, or forward it to support, and ask if another attempt might be made to retrieve them once Y!Groups stabilizes.

Shal

Bob,

> Where soft bounces have a Blue B and hard bouncers have a Red B.

Groups.io's blue B ("bouncing") and red B ("bounced") status don't
really correspond to the traditional email "soft" and "hard" bounce
categories.

That is, even a hard bounce starts an address with blue status, and
persistent soft bounces will eventually progress the address to red status.

> Since hard bouncers are not recoverable, you can just delete them.

Substitute "red B" for "hard" and this is essentially correct.

Blue B status means that Groups.io has suspended group message delivery
to that address, but is periodically sending a "probe" notification in
hopes of having the member respond. If the member responds to a probe
then group message delivery is resumed.

Red B status means that Groups.io has given up sending "probe" notices
to the address.

> It seems to me the best way to process all of those No Email people is
> to download your membership into an Excel file and sort it.

You can sort the Members list by Delivery (click on the column header),
and then if you don't have too many of them put a checkmark next to each
No Email person, and use the Actions menu at the bottom to send a
message to that batch of members. I think you have to repeat this a page
at a time.

This has the advantage that your message (by default) comes from the
Group+owner email address, and there is a convenient checkbox to Bcc the
message to all the moderators. There is also a Notices selector which
lets you fill in the message subject and body with a canned message
(from the Member Notices tab of your group's Settings page).

Shal