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We have been working to port our Yahoo group to Groups.io. The transfer service offered by groups.io did not meet a couple of our needs:

1. About 1/4 of our messages included at least one attachment. We did not wish to lose this valuable archive, nor manually adjusting it. The problem was aggravated by an inexplicable inability to directly add attachments to posted messages.
2. As is the case in many groups (including [GMF]), many of our messages refer to other messages by message number. (It was the only reliable way to target a message in Yahoo.) We wanted to preserve the message numbers--in spite of the fact that our group had undergone pruning from time to time.

We were able to meet these requirements creating a group on Groups.io and populating it with PGO and PGO-2-GIO, but we've hit one annoying issue, due to false starts. During the beta test period with this product, I started and abandoned several uploads, deleting the messages after each test. Ultimately, I had uploaded and deleted around 998 messages before the final complete upload.

So the problem is that all the message numbers are offset by 998 from what they should be.

1. Is there any way to reset the message counter to 0? I could delete all the messages, reset the message counter, and upload again.
2. I could shut down this group and start a new one--but I really like the name I've used for this one. It's about the same as the name at Yahoo. Can I close a group and then reopen a new group using the same name? What are the steps to do this?

We do include the Yahoo message number inside the message, but I'd like the two to match. Here's an illustration:

Thanks for any help.

Larry

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 11:01 PM, Laurence Marks wrote:

• Is there any way to reset the message counter to 0? I could delete all the messages, reset the message counter, and upload again.

I'm not aware of any way to do this.

• I could shut down this group and start a new one--but I really like the name I've used for this one. It's about the same as the name at Yahoo. Can I close a group and then reopen a new group using the same name?

Yes, indirectly.

• What are the steps to do this?

Change the group name to something like qqqqqqxxxxx, and only THEN delete it. At that point you should be able to reopen a new group using the same name.?

Having said that, if you plan to continue beta testing for Wilson, you might want to instead rename the current group to something like PGO2GIOTestGroup, and keep it around for awhile.?

Bruce

Bruce,

Thank you. Your response was very helpful. I wasn't sure if group names were re-usable once abandoned.

Larry

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 10:32 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

Change the group name to something like qqqqqqxxxxx, and only THEN delete it. At that point you should be able to reopen a new group using the same name.

A bit of followup on Bruce's comment.? You might want to create your new group after changing the name of the 'old' one.? Then you could refer to the original when making the settings for the 'real' group.? Hope that makes sense.

Duane
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