Locked Re: Group transfers
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Linda
Hi Mark,
I love the way you're
thinking! I'm just worried that Yahoo might stumble upon the new
description and close down the group completely, thereby deleting the
archives. Wish there was an easy way to transfer the archives over
too...
Thanks!
Linda
From: Mark Fletcher
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 1:51 PM
To: beta@groups.io
Subject: [beta] Group transfers Hi All,
Happy 2015! Now that the holidays are over, I'll be able to get back to
serious development work.
I've been trying to think of ways to make transfers of existing groups to
Groups.io easier. My problem with having direct add of members generally
available is that it tends to get abused and Groups.io gets labeled a spammer.
But I want to make it easy to transfer groups over.
If someone can prove to me that they own an existing group, I think that's
enough of a bar to permit their members to be added directly. So, here's an
idea:
- Create the new group at Groups.io
- Change the description of your existing group to include a link to the
new group at Groups.io. Something like "This group has moved to https://groups.io/org/groupsio/GROUPNAME".
- Email the member list and a link to the old group to a support account
I'll set up.
- I'll verify that the old group's description has been changed, and
directly add the members to the new group.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Mark |
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