Mark fixed the glitches in my group?

Joe

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one of the owners of our group is from the UK… and we have several members from the EU

Is there a way to allow/require prospective new members to answer questions such as "Why do you want to be part of this group" etc. to help identify them as desirable members of the group?

We want to discourage potential spammers and group collectors and keep it to people who would be willing to take an extra step to prove they are worthy of our group.

Thanks!

>??Not sure what you mean by "click on them",

Sorry. To be clear. I can approve either by clicking the check box next the message and then pressing one of the 'approve' buttons. Or I can click on the message itself, (read it,) and click the approve button there.

In both cases, the email does go out (I receive it in my inbox), but the message also remains in the 'pending' queue as viewed on the web site.

Many thanks!
Marina

Sharon,
Under my Account is Preferences, then Time Display. which can be set to Relative ( ie 5
minutes ago) or Absolute (ie Jan 13, 2016, 4:47pm )

OK,
Tony

On 13 Feb 2018 at 9:54, Sharon Villines wrote about :
Subject : Re: [GMF] [tvc] Messages having dif

On Feb 11, 2018, at 8:49 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:

and the default for the message time is relative, “within 5 minutes.”

No. That is "5 minutes ago" - an example of relative time. It is not a control over time accuracy.

The feature is whether you want time displayed in a relative way ("an hour ago", "yesterday") when it is recent enough, or whether you always want to see the actual time displayed.

This control by the way is largely or entirely ignored, and Mark ought to remove it. He's settled on using abbreviated absolute time everywhere, with hover text showing the full date/time string.

Thank you, Shal for all the clarifications. I’m setting up two detail projects — several conjoined
Groups.io and a time banking system. The number of boxes to check off on dozens of screens
numbs my brain.

I would eliminate this. I scrolled through my beyond full inbox a few days ago and all the
messages were for today, yesterday, two hours ago. To quote the date in my return message, I
had to figure out what it was. I don’t think there is a setting in Apple Mail to turn this off but you
remind me to look.

Thanks again,
Sharon

Hi,

? I didn't give you enough information to answer me ...

? The group I'm talking about has over 10,000 members.? That means
that simply isn't possible to get 'authorization' from all of the E.U.
members.

? Will we try?? Of course we will.? But in the end we are going to have
to transfer the group without having heard from each and every
member.? So we can't -know- we have their permission.? Can they
opt out themselves?? Yes.? That's not the issue.? The issue is about
transferring an individual person's membership (who lives in the
E.U.) from yahoo groups to groups.io.

? The real question is "does transferring someone who is in the E.U.
actually violate the E.U. regs (laws?) related to privacy?". These
regs/laws, as I understand it, are related to 'spam' and other
undesirable aspects of using the web.

? I can not disclose who told me about this - it was told to me in
confidence.
- Jim B.

Shal

I have been getting the Claimed By since yesterday. I tried approving using email and by going to the group to approve messages. No luck either way. It let me reset the privilege of the member, but would not let me approve. I also tried sending a new topic to the group and that also did not get posted.?

Finally today after many tries I was able to approve one message, that did show up on the message board. But the ones from yesterday never did, and the message I posted myself never showed up.

Joe

It means that a moderator has edited the message, or has it open for editing now. It is a mechanism intended to help moderators avoid stepping on each other's toes.

(a) When I click on them and say approve, they don't leave the
queue ...

Not sure what you mean by "click on them", but you should be able to check the box on their row and approve them - or open them individually and approve them. In either case you'll get a pop-up warning that the message is claimed.

The hard question- this what I see through my web browser 'at work'.
'at home' I don't see those messages in the pending queue - Pending is
empty form the home browser.

I don't have an answer for that, unless one or the other browser was caching old information, or circumstances changed as you moved from work to home (the messages were approved, deleted, or otherwise removed from the pending queue).

Shal

All I've heard referred to a UK privacy law effective in April. Maybe that was confused with EU which the UK is leaving.

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

Yes

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

Bruce,

My questions: If we don't upgrade to Premium beforehand, what files
will get discarded during migration?

None.

This happened to me in transferring one of my groups. The transfer agent suspended the copy action and emailed me to ask what to do. In my case it turned out to be an excess of photos (1.7 GB) and the solution was to turn on resizing, selecting a 2000 x 2000 max was sufficient to bring them under 0.75 GB.

Does groups.io notify you when you go over your storage limitation and
provide a "grace period" for you to do something about it before they
begin to throw out your files and photos?

When you're at quota I believe you are prevented from adding more rather than having anything automatically deleted. The exception is message attachments, there's a group option to delete oldest instead of rejecting the new messages.

Shal

John Mc,

... (b) both messages a "claimed by" pin on them. What does that
tag mean?

It means that a moderator has edited the message, or has it open for editing now. It is a mechanism intended to help moderators avoid stepping on each other's toes.

(a) When I click on them and say approve, they don't leave the
queue ...

Not sure what you mean by "click on them", but you should be able to check the box on their row and approve them - or open them individually and approve them. In either case you'll get a pop-up warning that the message is claimed.

The hard question- this what I see through my web browser 'at work'.
'at home' I don't see those messages in the pending queue - Pending is
empty form the home browser.

I don't have an answer for that, unless one or the other browser was caching old information, or circumstances changed as you moved from work to home (the messages were approved, deleted, or otherwise removed from the pending queue).

Shal

Sorry, I got this message but it is not very clear to me.

"Send an email to [email protected] saying that you are ready to transfer your group. Make sure you include the names of both your old Yahoo Group and new Groups.io group in your email. The email should be sent from the same address as the owner of your Groups.io group."

Does this mean the e-mail address I registered on Groups.io to create my group?

Thanks,
Marina

Note that when an email post does not have a hashtag in the subject line, only "Mute This Topic" appears among the links at the bottom. If the post has a hashtag, "Mute This #{hashtag}" also appears with {hashtag} filled with the hashtag in the subject line. This had me a little confused until I noticed that the appearance of "Mute This #hashtag" is contingent.
Best, Marv

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:31 am, Shal Farley wrote:

Marina,

In the formatting toolbar of the description, open the Advanced Toolbar
(rightmost button, three horizontal lines) and in the advanced toolbar
click on the Source code button (rightmost button, <> ).

Sorry, there is no Source code button in my advanced toolbar. I had already desperately looked for it. There is a "Clear formatting" button, but it is useless.

Maybe it has to do with my settings?

I have another small group I created to test Groups.io.
The group description in Directory has the same problem: same word in bold.
For misterious reasons, in that group the advanced toolbar shows the Source code button.
I checked the description source code as you suggested and there is no trace of HTML, tags or anything like that.
The description is in plain text. But the description shows one word in bold.

I feel so stupid.

Marina

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 07:03 am, Jim Betz wrote:

Hi,
? So I'm hearing that if you transfer a yahoo group with members in the E.U.
that
you are "violating the rules related to privacy/spam".?

Jim, where did you read this statement?

My group members are mostly Italians and people from European countries.
I have informed them that we are about to relocate and noone has made any objection, so far.
Yahoo and Groups.io are both free services, so I can't see what sort of damages they may suffer in leaving the former for the latter.
I suppose that those who do not agree with the transfer will simply leave the group.

Marina

Thank you, I tried a test, I like whats already there better. I think I’ll just leave it alone.

I did read the wiki before asking here, there was no explanation of the Home?statement that made it clear to me.

For me, knowing that wiki isn’t charged in the storage count (and that files are) made me wish we’d used wiki instead of files when we started our group but what’s done is done.