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I am a owner/moderator and subscriber of various io groups and I am transferring a group this week. I ?was wondering when the members of my Y group will get a notification email to switch over if I initiate the transfer today? Still running 2 weeks in queue?
(all preliminary steps have been completed).

I only have 150 members and will be meeting many of them this Sunday at our monthly meeting to announce the switch. I would rather them receive an email from me rather than groups first but don’t want to delay.

Thank you in advance
Bill Bradley

Bill -- Go to the transfer page and select your group from the drop-down "In Process" menu.?

On the resulting page, unclick the box that says Send a Message to your Members, then click on Update Transfer.

This will inhibit the subscriber "transfer success" email and allow you to send everyone your own custom message instead.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
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Received from Bill Bradley at 10/3/2018 06:05 PM UTC:

I am a owner/moderator and subscriber of various io groups and I am transferring a group this week. I was wondering when the members of my Y group will get a notification email to switch over if I initiate the transfer today? Still running 2 weeks in queue?
(all preliminary steps have been completed).

I only have 150 members and will be meeting many of them this Sunday at our monthly meeting to announce the switch. I would rather them receive an email from me rather than groups first but don't want to delay.

Thank you in advance
Bill Bradley

I don't think anything replaces a message from you to the original Y! group sent as a "Special "Message" so all receive it... if for no other reason than that they should hear it from you first... and should hear it BEFORE it happens. Whether they ALL read any message you send (or that Gio sends later) is questionable, but that's the same for a message via Yahoo vs one via Groups.io.

I suggest a "Special Message" sent to the Y! group ASAP... followed by an announcement and maybe a Q&A session on Sunday. And later on some will still be completely surprised.

Just my 2 cents.

Jim H

Thank you Bruce that was just the answer I was looking for! I went ahead and began the transfer.
Thanks...... Bill

Bill,

I was wondering when the members of my Y group will get a notification
email to switch over if I initiate the transfer today?

They will get a "You've been added" message from Groups.io at the time their address is copied to your Groups.io group. Unless you uncheck the box Bruce mentioned.

At the same time they'll get a "Welcome" member notice from you (your group) if there is one Active in the Member Notices tab of your group's Settings page. Uncheck the Active box for that message if you don't want that sent.

The member does not have to take any action on their own, except possibly to update their address book and/or bookmarks.

I would rather them receive an email from me rather than groups first
but don’t want to delay.

I concur with Jim that they should hear about it from you in advance, via a Special Notice in your Yahoo Group. That way you could tell them to expect the system message and your Welcome notice.

Here's an example that I sent to one of my Yahoo Groups:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Advance-Special-Notice-for-Yahoo-Group-transfer

See also the matching Welcome notice:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Welcome-Message-for-Yahoo-Group-transfer

Shal


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On 10/4/18 1:04 AM, Shal Farley wrote:

They will get a "You've been added" message from Groups.io at the time
their address is copied to your Groups.io group. Unless you uncheck the
box Bruce mentioned.

My suggestion is to _not_ uncheck that box.

For those who unsubscribed from your list, by writing a filter to toss
it into the spam box, that notice from Groups.IO is the only indicator
they will have that something has changed.

Don't be surprised to:
* get a flood of message from people who haven't sent a message in
years, accusing you of spamming them. (They unsubscribed, by sending
list-mail to spam.);
* see a number of very upset list contributors being automatically
unsubscribed, due to the list being perceived as spam;

I would rather them receive an email from me rather than groups first
but don’t want to delay.

I concur with Jim that they should hear about it from you in advance,
via a Special Notice in your Yahoo Group. That way you could tell them
to expect the system message and your Welcome notice.

+10000

On one list that I thought was dormant, the only notification that the
list-owner made, was on a YouTube video. I didn't even know that there
was a YouTube channel affiliated with that list.

jonathon

Shal,
I unchecked the box that Bruce mentioned and am sending invitations from io
The transfer took just a couple days. I will be sending out the invites to log in and start using on Sunday.
I used some of the verbage that you shared. A big thank you for your help and GMF!

Bill Bradley

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Thank you Shal for including that little tidbit about sending the invite via post with special notice checked, I did have all the subscribers copied over with the transfer!

Bill Bradley