Thanks. All very good suggestions. Going for sub-groups to use as main talking groups eventually as wanna work out how many of the members actually interact or actively lurking. This will be used

I believe the message 'owner' can still delete a message, even if the topic is locked, though I haven't tried to verify it. Duane

Why don't you try going into your Settings page, scrolling down to Message Policies, and setting x in "Automatically Lock Topics after x Days" to the interval between now and the last yahoo message

I can't say about what does or does not work on your old Yahoo group, but I made a new group on Yahoo after the October 28 deadline to monitor Yahoo falling apart. It had been mostly working up until

My first thought would be to ask if it's OK to load the old Yahoo group into a subgroup of the new Groups.io group, and make that subgroup read only. Then the main group can be used going forward,

Hi Mark, Does this “free up” some of your time to consider some “system” tweaks? In particular, I’d REALLY like to see a “Select all” option for the members display. It is an

Mark, My block has both an old yahoo group (started by someone other than me) and a groups.io group that I started about 4 years ago. The yahoo people would not budge and join the new group until

Hopefully Yahoo will fix the outage. If they don't, I will of course refund your charge. Thanks, Mark

Hi Mark/Community, I have taken over a yahoogroup spanning 15 years. I want to draw a virtual dotted line where anything in past is only viewable as a library/archive, but all new postings are

How about those of us that upgraded to premium yesterday so we could do the transfer? Ann Goodspeed

Hi All, The Yahoo Groups outage continues, preventing us from exporting group messages. For now, I have disabled the ability to create new transfer requests, and have posted a note on the Yahoo Group

Not sure whether this is related, but two of my group members with yahoo email addresses started bouncing yesterday.-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My

Hi All, FYI, Yahoo's having a bad day today. It's been very difficult for us to download archives, and consequently transfers have started backing up. We're getting a bunch of errors and their rate

I'm not one of the people that you're transferring, but I just have to say I've been very impressed with all you have done during what I can only imagine has been a ridiculously stressful time. I just

Changes to the site this week: API: Added /searchwikis endpoint. API: Changed search_result object to message_search_result. API: Added /getbounceinfo and `/getdeliveryinfo' endpoints. API: Added

Hi All, As of this morning, we've completely worked through the backlog of Yahoo Group transfer requests. It took 29 days, but we did it. :-) I've removed the option to pay for a priority

Changes to the site this week: INTERNAL: Several database optimizations to speed group imports. INTERNAL: Completed webhook server. API: Added /getmemberdirectory endpoint. API: Added

We were able to add 3.4M messages yesterday, besting yesterday's record by 1M messages. We are no longer falling further behind with transfers, and are starting to (slowly) catch up. As of now, we're

Appreciate your tremendous efforts to improve the process. My group went from #80 to done. I know it's been a big effort and new costs with new servers to host and to process transfers. Out of

We are at 67 and 68 in the queue at 10 am CST so we have moved forward over 100 groups since yesterday afternoon. We now expect to be transferred today or tonight. Very exciting! It has been