On 1/7/2018 10:02 AM, Janet Smith wrote:

I have transferred a small Yahoo group over here for testing purposes and we're pretty happy, so I'm setting up a test group for a large Yahoo group.??? I would like some input on the user transfer part of things.

We have some 1400+ members on the rolls, but I know that several have passed on and families haven't removed their email addresses.??? And I have many in my community who are not computer literate, so many will simply rejoin if they change email addresses, so they are on the rolls multiple times.??? And we have members who joined years ago never to be heard from again.??? So I am thinking this is a good time to clear the slate and had been thinking of requiring that people rejoin on their own or email me and request to be invited.??? Either of these options is more work for me, so I am wondering what the downside is to simply inviting all 1400+ to move with us.

If they don't get the invite and aren't using their email address any longer for any reason, is this just a no-op for me???? I won't ever see them on the new group. Their invites will simply go into cyberspace somewhere???? Or if they get the invite and opt not to opt-in, that, too, is a no-op from my perspective?

Was wondering what others' experiences have been along these lines.

Thanks.

Janet Smith

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Shal Farley
Sent: Sunday, January 7, 2018 12:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] Transfering members

Janet,

> So I am thinking this is a good time to clear the slate and had been >
thinking of requiring that people rejoin on their own or email me and >
request to be invited. Either of these options is more work for me, > so I
am wondering what the downside is to simply inviting all 1400+ to > move
with us.

I would recommend letting the transfer agent take care of the members list
for you (as it normally does). It will copy all of the addresses from your
Yahoo Group into your Groups.io group, excluding those on bouncing status.
Most of your dead-wood addresses will likely be cleared out simply by the
fact that bouncing addresses don't get copied. After the transfer some more
may end up on Bouncing status at Groups.io because they were dead after all,
but not listed as such by Yahoo.

So you don't need to invite the members, and they don't need to accept or
join anything. As soon as the transfer completes they'll be sent a welcome
notice from Groups.io (with opt-out option) and, if you set one up before
the transfer, a custom Welcome notice that you create. At that point they
are "email-only" members - meaning that they receive group messages and can
post by email.

If they want to access group Photos, Files or other members-only web content
then they'll need to log in to Groups.io - but that's a simple process. They
go to the web site and click the link to Log In or Sign Up, the instructions
should guide them from there.

> If they don't get the invite and aren't using their email address any >
longer for any reason, is this just a no-op for me? I won't ever see >
them on the new group. Their invites will simply go into cyberspace >
somewhere? Or if they get the invite and opt not to opt-in, that, > too,
is a no-op from my perspective?

If you choose to invite some people then yes, bad addresses and ignored
invites are pretty much a no-op for you.

I think you'll be told by the invite page if the address is actually bad
(rejected by the receiving service), and the ignored addresses may hang
around on the Invite page for your convenience in sending a re-try later. I
haven't used invite very much myself so I've forgotten some of the details.

Shal