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I am sorry if this has been asked before, but a quick search of this group did not reveal the answer.

I sent the invite to the transfer-bot from the Yahoo Group I am transferring a couple of hours ago. Is the acceptance fully automated? Should the transfer-bot have already become a member of my group? I just don't know if this is a normal healthy delay, or if in fact the Yahoo Groups invite did not go out. As of right now, I have no transfer-bot in my Yahoo Group so I can't begin to transfer us over.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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I sent the invite to the transfer-bot from the Yahoo Group I am
transferring a couple of hours ago. Is the acceptance fully automated?

No. The invitation acceptance is not automated because accepting them requires solving a CAPTCHA.

Also, due to the backlog of groups attempting to transfer, and to some limits at Yahoo, the invitations are not accepted immediately. Rather that is deferred until your group is closer to the front of the queue.

I just don't know if this is a normal healthy delay, or if in fact the
Yahoo Groups invite did not go out.

You should be able to see your request's current status by selecting the Yahoo Group name in the "In Process" droplist down at the bottom right of the Transfer instructions page:
/yahootransfer

As of right now, I have no transfer-bot in
my Yahoo Group so I can't begin to transfer us over.

When the Invitation is accepted you should receive a message at the email address you use to log into Groups.io

Subject: "Steps to transfer..."
From: Easy Group Transfer <[email protected]>.

That's in addition to any "Joined" message you may receive from Yahoo.

Note that due to the backlog there will also likely be some time between when you've promoted the transfer agent, and clicked the "Go" button on the In Process page, and when the transfer will actually be underway. In a very large group (lots of messages & other content) it could also take quite a while for all the content to be collected.

Shal


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I sent the invite to the transfer-bot from the Yahoo Group
I am transferring a couple of hours ago. Is the acceptance
fully automated? Should the transfer-bot have already
become a member of my group? I just don't know if this is
a normal healthy delay, or if in fact the Yahoo Groups invite
did not go out. As of right now, I have no transfer-bot in my
Yahoo Group so I can't begin to transfer us over.

Just a couple other thoughts -

When you sent the invitation to [email protected], did you also send an second invitation in the same message to an email address you have access to that is unknown to Yahoo groups? If you get the second invitation yourself, that will tell you if the invitation is actually going out or not. If you don't hear back from the transfer agent in a couple days or if you can't seem to get an invitation out, you might contact [email protected] directly and explain that you may be having trouble getting an invitation out. A reply to such a message can also require a little time for support to have time to respond.

If you've already filled out the transfer request form, such a message might cause 'transfer' to send you a request for membership to the groupname-subscribe@... address for your yahoo group. Watch your group and spam filters for that possibility and make sure your group is set to allow such requests. We had to use that trick to get 'transfer' into a couple Y! groups I was working with that couldn't seem to get invitations out.

As Shal noted, the backlog is pretty deep and it's taking a long time for groups to work through the queue. Given the number of groups trying to transfer, and knowing that a lot of little things can hang part of a transfer, this can be a test of patience, but in my opinion, the final result is well worth the wait.

Dano

Thanks for the feedback. Our arts group is transferring and we intend to upgrade to premium when the transfer is complete. So far no transfer bot has arrived in our Yahoo Group and it's been 24 hours + since I made the request. I checked, no request for membership is pending, either. I guess I'll just hang tight and wait. If I hear nothing by Friday morning I'll send an email to support here so that I get in the support queue before the weekend. But you're right, it's probably the huge backlog of people fleeing Yahoo causing the delay, and nothing more.

Just thought I'd let you all know that the bot just joined my Yahoo Group a few minutes ago. So it took about a day and a half for the bot to join my group. I'll reply to this thread when the transfer process is complete (I gave the go ahead command). This way if anyone else wants to know about how long it will take, this is a ballpark estimate.