Comments on: Related Groups Feature Test Results

By: Hosea

Hosea — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:16:29 +0000

As owner/moderator of a Yahoo group, I wish to up-date a person’s email address. I can go to my account, see members on the left side, click on that and view all the members and their email addresses, but see no place for editing. It is difficult to believe that an email address for a member could not be simply changed by the moderator. Please give me instructions.
Hosea

By: farmer

farmer — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:59:37 +0000

Question
I noticed when deleting posts from yahoo groups that while they are deleting from the message board itself and no longer show up by post number in the listing of messages, that when using ADVANCED SEARCH to search by user name or email address, the deleted posts are still displayed in the Advanced search as if they were not deleted.
Why is this? and how can you get posts you delete by their post number on the message board to also delete from the Advanced search listing. Thank you

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:51:54 +0000

I first have to say that I appreciate the opportunity to post comments in this forum. It’s also good to see Jami’s posts on the matter.

That said, this is ridiculous. Yahoo, while providing a feature that some people find desirable, has released this feature while at the same time showing absolutely no consideration for those of us who find it intrusive, and not to put too fine a point on it, Spam. As the old saying goes, this is no way to run an airline.

A professional way to do this would have been to release this feature as an opt in, rather than an opt out, or to release the feature after having had the foresight to, oh…I dunno…actually release it with the mechanism for opting out already in place. As it is, I’ve posted on the message board, scrolled through this blog, and I still see no way to get the Spam that Yahoo itself is currently attaching to the postings in my group. Given that fact, I’d appreciate hearing from Jami or someone else with Yahoo when we might have such a mechanism. If none is to be forthcoming for a while, then I’d suggest that Yahoo disable the Related Groups “feature” until that mechanism is in place. I refuse to believe that this can be that difficult a thing.

By: JD

JD — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:17:10 +0000

Can’t take the spam any longer. I started a group for a common calendar to share and within hours started to receive spam. I won’t bother trying to use the group as intend because its classless and basically unworkable. What can be done. I’ve tried all the settings.

All and all, yahoo has been unable to manage spam for it users and the pay for protection model doesn’t work and never will. One very big reason Yahoo is under fire to be sold. They have missed one of the biggest white elephants in the middle of the room in internet history with its customers moving over to google. MS is no better at spam but remember its about eyeballs and a finite amount of time each day.

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By: Terri

Terri — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:01:01 +0000

I want to thank you Jami for the feedback on the “related links” and for the action that will be taken to make it a choice for group owners. I am never against progress but I do like to have “options” for what makes my particular groups run well.

Thank you for not letting our voices get lost and taking into consideration what we needed.

I would like to ask if there is an option to not have Yahoo send out Automated greeting posts to new members? I have “posts/files” that go out automatically to my members that are clear on the rules and how the group runs. This post is rather generic and really doesnt apply and will become “junk mail” to my new members. My automated posts/files are specific to my members and group.

Can this be shut down?

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:11:07 +0000

I’m sorry, I get it now. It’s an new updated HTML or whatever you call it automatic letter that confirms someone has joined the group, that the mods had never seen. I just thought from the wording that it sounded like there were changes made or being made to groups.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:51:47 +0000

Paul,yes groups are free but we built the group and chose what it is about.
We have every right to complain.

“You choose when and how to stay in touch,* You choose when and how to stay in touch,
Quickly scan new postings and browse detailed message archives,and
Plus enjoy many more ways to show and tell – 24/7″

Oh man that has me worried.

By: Mims

Mims — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:14:18 +0000

Karen and GH, I don’t understand why Yahoo signs the names of mods who had nothing to do with writing that. Doesn’t seem very fair, does it? Is this the forthcoming new YG team willing to talk to us before doing something?

By: gh

gh — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:06:16 +0000

Paul,

I don’t consider it complaining. However if we want Facebook/myspace or grouply we’ll go to them. The reason I’m on yahoo groups is because I have no interest in social networking. If they want to do that why not do as a separate service and not mess with groups. Up to now they’ve been the best. If they change over to social networking they’ll lose a lot of people. I don’t think that’s what they want. Why just try to copy what others are doing. They have a unique product right now if they leave it alone.