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A yahoo list owner has contacted me regarding moving her list to groups.io. The one question she had that I could not answer was whether it was possible to completely disable archiving. Obviously, if this is possible, all members would have to communicate by email since there would be no messages maintained on the site, but apparently that had been possible at one time on yahoo. I'm unable to find this as a feature on my own groups. Does anyone here know of a way to make this happen.
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 05:39 PM, Cacky B wrote:
The one question she had that I could not answer was whether it was possible to completely disable archiving. Obviously, if this is possible, all members would have to communicate by email since there would be no messages maintained on the site, but apparently that had been possible at one time on yahoo. I'm unable to find this as a feature on my own groups. Does anyone here know of a way to make this happen.
Yes, it was possible in Yahoo, and no, you can't do that here.

You're not the first person to ask about this. There is an ongoing thread about it in the beta group at?

The beta group is the official "suggestion box" for groups.io.

Regards,
Bruce
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I can answer that because this was a question I had asked.
I wanted the archives to only be visible to owners/mods or no one.
It cannot be done at this time.?
So what I have done is have each message locked after one day or when I know there are messages there manually lock them.
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I also advised my members in my Signature Tag groups that if they want a tag they need to request from the email they receive only by replying and we need to see the whole email in their request.
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If they request from the message archives, they will see the word PRIVATE at the front?of the subject line and will not see the entire message they are replying to.
This way we know not to fill their request.
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Ilene?
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From: Cacky B
Date: 9/10/2018 4:39:55 PM
Subject: [GMF] Disable Archives
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A yahoo list owner has contacted me regarding moving her list to groups.io. The one question she had that I could not answer was whether it was possible to completely disable archiving. Obviously, if this is possible, all members would have to communicate by email since there would be no messages maintained on the site, but apparently that had been possible at one time on yahoo. I'm unable to find this as a feature on my own groups. Does anyone here know of a way to make this happen.
Cacky
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In yahoo groups it can be done if that is what you are asking.
Go to Management
Control Panel
Access Control and there you can select who you want to be able to see the messages. Select Moderator's only and make sure you have the tick mark in the?selection Members cannot view/edit, only moderators can?view/edit.? ?
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-------Original Message-------
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From: Cacky B
Date: 9/10/2018 4:39:55 PM
Subject: [GMF] Disable Archives
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A yahoo list owner has contacted me regarding moving her list to groups.io. The one question she had that I could not answer was whether it was possible to completely disable archiving. Obviously, if this is possible, all members would have to communicate by email since there would be no messages maintained on the site, but apparently that had been possible at one time on yahoo. I'm unable to find this as a feature on my own groups. Does anyone here know of a way to make this happen.
Cacky
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>>You're not the first person to ask about this.

Which reminds me...

Ilene, did you ever have any luck with Tom's idea of embedding a hashtag in the Subject Tag? If so we might be able to suggest another workaround that will delete any posted topic entirely after one hour. Not exactly what we're looking for, but it's close (see screenshot for example).

Bruce
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I never did the hashtag thing as my groups are simple and they wouldn't know
what was going on. LOL we don't know from hashtags.
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It was easier to just explain to the taggers in the group not to accept an
offer with the word Private in the subject line and when the taggers?make their offer to the group they need
to ask for the complete email in the request which replying from the messages do not give you.
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Then I sent a note to the members saying they need to request via the email they received.
If they request from the messages we will know and their tag will not be made and we also need to see the
entire email in their request.
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That seems to be working right now.
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Ilene
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Date: 9/10/2018 5:11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [GMF] Disable Archives
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>>You're not the first person to ask about this.

Which reminds me...

Ilene, did you ever have any luck with Tom's idea of embedding a hashtag in the Subject Tag? If so we might be able to suggest another workaround that will delete any posted topic entirely after one hour. Not exactly what we're looking for, but it's close (see screenshot for example).

Bruce
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The system Help is your friend.??/static/help

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Thanks to all for the responses, and also for giving the request a nudge on Beta.? I have passed the info along to the person requesting help, along with a workaround that I have suggested she experiment with.? Also suggested she join this list to get a better idea of the features and problem areas.

Cacky

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