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new_email_list [2019.10.23 08:59] Steve Isenbergnew_email_list [2021.12.22 10:51] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return to LCTG home]]+~~NOCACHE~~[[lexingtoncomputergroup|return to LCTG home]]
 =====October 2019 Need To Leave Yahoo Groups===== =====October 2019 Need To Leave Yahoo Groups=====
-====What Do We Need==== +===links for new group=== 
-Capture what we need for the future\\  +[[http://lists.toku.us/admin.cgi/lctg-toku.us/members|member management]] (needs password)\\ 
-Set up some email group for communication\\ +[[http://lists.toku.us/admin.cgi/lctg-toku.us/members/add|add or invite new members]] (needs password) 
 +====Plans for the switch==== 
 +We discussed and decided that for at least the short term, we would take me (Steve Isenberg) up on my offer to host the email list as part of my Dreamhost ISP account.\\  
 +CharlyS is checking on what it would take for the group to get a 501c3; once we have this, then Dreamhost will give us a free account, and it's likely that groups.io would as well.\\  
 +QUESTION: Does Lexington Community Center have a 501c3?  If so could we use its 501c3 to get a free account at one of these? 
 +===Email list tasks=== 
 +|Get email addresses from Yahoo Group|DONE| 
 +|Create new group|DONE|List address (for posting messages) is: ''LCTG@toku.us'' (or ''LCTG@lists.toku.us'')| 
 +|Test new group, send email to it and see it distribute message to select test subjects|DONE|added footer, sent test message| 
 +|Add all current Yahoo group's email addresses to the new group|DONE| 
 +|Send message to Yahoo Group saying we are switching and give new address|sent to new list DONE| 
 +|Add list address for new group to the YahooGroup (so email sent to old Yahoo group will go to new group for distribution|NOT DONE as I turned off mailings to the list| 
 +|Set all members of current Yahoo group so not receive email (means we rely on new group)|DONE by disallowing email to the yahoo list| 
 +When this is all done, 
 +  * All current Yahoo group members will be on the new list
  
-Specifics on what to do, send to:\\  
-CharlyS\\  
-Jonathan\\  
-Bob Melanson\\  
-Peter Albin\\  
-Harry\\  
-John Rudy\\  
-Bob\\ 
-Lynnell Stern 
  
 +===Files stored on Yahoo Groups===
 +|Need to download all of the documents/files to non-yahoo space|CharlyS did this?  Verify|TBD|
 +|Find place and way to store all of these files (Steve's Wiki?  Elsewhere?)| |TBD|
 +
 +===Old message archives===
 +|Need to see how to get old messages|DONE, downloaded 9,233 messages to a mbox file|
 +|How to store them somewhere so they can be searched and read|TBD|
 +
 +===Using new list===
 +See the group wiki at http://lctg.toku.us as I have put usage info there.
 +
 +===Subcommittee members===
 +  * Bob Melanson
 +  * Bob Primak
 +  * CharlyS
 +  * Evie Isenberg
 +  * Harry Forsdick
 +  * Jonathan Goode
 +  * John Rudy
 +  * Lynnell Stern
 +  * Peter Albin
 +  * Steve Isenberg
 +
 +----
 +====Older material====
 ^Category^Needs^Post-Yahoo Groups Solution^ ^Category^Needs^Post-Yahoo Groups Solution^
 |Email List|Way to add/delete members.| |Email List|Way to add/delete members.|
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 ^ Option                      ^ Cost                                  ^ Notes                                                                                         ^ ^ Option                      ^ Cost                                  ^ Notes                                                                                         ^
-| Groups.io                   $110/yr (or is it $220for premium)                                                                                                |+| Groups.io                   | $220 for first year                                                                                                |
 | Google Groups                                                                                                                                                   | | Google Groups                                                                                                                                                   |
 | <del>Facebook</del>                    |                                       | works like usual Facebook feed                                                               | | <del>Facebook</del>                    |                                       | works like usual Facebook feed                                                               |
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 [Jonathan] [Jonathan]
 This seems to be clean and nice, but I'm wondering what problem we're trying to solve. Are there things that bother you about our current Yahoo pages? The things that bother me are that Yahoo no longer automatically generates meeting notices from the calendar (and sometimes blocks access to it). Right now, I keep our Yahoo home page (at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/LexingtonComputerGroup/management/settings) pretty much up to date. I stopped keeping our calendar (at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/LexingtonComputerGroup/events) up to date a few months after it stopped generating meeting notices. I also manually generate meeting notices using the general format of the previously automatically generated notices. Do we need more or different? Is there a calendar facility that will allow automatic notice generation? This seems to be clean and nice, but I'm wondering what problem we're trying to solve. Are there things that bother you about our current Yahoo pages? The things that bother me are that Yahoo no longer automatically generates meeting notices from the calendar (and sometimes blocks access to it). Right now, I keep our Yahoo home page (at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/LexingtonComputerGroup/management/settings) pretty much up to date. I stopped keeping our calendar (at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/LexingtonComputerGroup/events) up to date a few months after it stopped generating meeting notices. I also manually generate meeting notices using the general format of the previously automatically generated notices. Do we need more or different? Is there a calendar facility that will allow automatic notice generation?
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