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1. Admin Assunnah said,

   February 10, 2009 @ 12:04 am

   Thanks if you want to keep file inside email attachment in your server again. Very useful for member who only access to your mailing list using web interface, and for other member while on the road, leaving the archive email on his/her computer at home/office.
   Currently we open our mailing list archives to the public, so all yahoogroups.com visitor could read our mailing list archives without needed to become our mailing list member.
   But is it possible to give special permission to access this email attachment in the future?
   For example, while non mailing list member could read our email archives, as long as they do not become our mailing list member, they cannot access to file inside email attachment.
   In our opinion, maybe this option could have some benefit in your system, to reduce the massive download from our mailing list from non-member/public visitor.
   Thanks for your comments later, if any.
   Regards,

2. jay vinton said,

   February 10, 2009 @ 7:19 am

   when i try to go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EmailAttachmentsBeta, i get some goofy guesthouse login page.

   but when i try to login with my yahoo id or email address, and my password, it tells me to get lost.

3. Administrator said,

   February 10, 2009 @ 12:48 pm

   @jay vinton
   Sorry about that– feel free to leave your feedback here for the time being. I’ll update the post once we have the group URL corrected. Thanks!!

   -Melissa

4. Stephanie HC said,

   February 10, 2009 @ 5:39 pm

   I signed our group up for this last night and today embedded pictures are coming through just fine but I sent a test message (from OE) with a small photo file as an attachment and this not work so well!! There was a box saying “attachment” and udnrneath it said to view the attchment click on View Attachment under left navigation bar – the only problem I could not find that link anywhere on the page! I know some people like embedded pictures better – but they are also a pain when they are not deleted from replies and they are sent over and over again. We have had to warn group members that anyone who persists on doing this will be set to moderated status. I use attachments because I write mail in plain text.

   Stephanie

5. Nubia said,

   February 12, 2009 @ 4:45 am

   hi dear all
   since this morning pending mails are no more avalaible in my group
   so i cannot aprove any mails
   here is the error message

   (Access to pending messages is temporarily unavailable)

   also the comments written by the members in “pending membership” are not visible

   can you solve this please

   thanks a lot
   Nubia
   owner Nubia_group

6. surya said,

   February 12, 2009 @ 8:21 am

   Very Good

7. Elizabeth said,

   February 12, 2009 @ 8:55 am

   Since last evening (Feb. 11), my site has been having problems. Posts are not posting, my database has been lost, and the links section is down, getting an error message of “Invalid list ID.” I was in the middle of re-organizing links when it went down, had ‘cut’ a number to be pasted into another folder, and now those cut ones are trapped in limbo and will be deleted in 24 hours, and I cannot access them.

   I am disappointed that Yahoo Admin has not yet acknowledged any problem, nor did you inform us that you would be working on the site, so that we would not attempt our own maintenance work at this time. This happens far too often, leaving group owners out of the loop when problems are occurring!

   -Elizabeth
   Owner, Ianites group

8. Chon said,

   February 12, 2009 @ 9:21 am

   My Yahoo list is now having problems with the search engine. Any/all terms are coming up empty when searching through past messages.

   http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/tern/

   Can someone please take a look at this issue?

9. Winnie said,

   February 12, 2009 @ 6:51 pm

   We are unable to post messages from our group site. I disabled the attachments but it hasn’t helped. I’m assuming this is because of the attachment tool being started. When can we expect to be able to receive messages via our groups? My members are most distressed.

10. Winnie said,

    February 12, 2009 @ 7:11 pm

    Okay, problem seems to be resolved now. Thanks, anyway

11. cafedeyou[dot]com said,

    February 12, 2009 @ 10:45 pm

    Thanks for this service

12. Widderschynnes said,

    February 13, 2009 @ 2:26 pm

    There is a definite problem! NO posts are showing up on the group. The ones that I do as list owner, the ones from unmoderated members, the ones that I approve. The management section shows they have been posted and/or approved but they are not on the group and have not shown up in my mailbox either.

    I have also tried resetting everything as directed by your front page here, but it doesn’t make any difference. So it seems there is nothing I can do to go back to normal. This change is not something that my group will operate well with anyway. Members use this group as a way to communicate within our community locally and are upset by suddenly not being able to communicate.

    How long is this going to go on?

    Cat’
    Owner, Widderschynnes group
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/widderschynnes/

13. Dave said,

    February 13, 2009 @ 2:47 pm

    My group is supposed to be unlisted, but as soon as I registered for the attachments beta, I was presented with a list of all the groups that had registered, including mine. This looks like a breach of privacy.

14. Administrator said,

    February 13, 2009 @ 3:02 pm

    @Chon
    Yep, our team is looking into it now. Thanks for your patience and commenting!

    -Melissa

15. Administrator said,

    February 13, 2009 @ 3:05 pm

    @Dave,
    We’d be happy to pull your group from the list if you’d like. I will email you (at the address you provided here) for your Group details.

    Thanks!

    -Melissa

16. Administrator said,

    February 13, 2009 @ 3:18 pm

    @Widderschynnes
    At this time, we haven’t seen a lot of reports about this, but definitely report it to Customer Care. (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/members/forms/general.html;_ylt=AnwuwYXFZs0FlUAYOWTReZoACXdG?from_url=http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/members/basics/basics-04.html;_ylt=AvDDszxhQhbaOQab6IM2hkrxliR4) Reporting an issue to Customer Care puts it into an issue queue and lets our teams know that there’s a potential issue on the site. It’s great to let us know here, but your best resource (and the plan of action you should always take) is to report it to Customer Care.

    Once it’s been reported (be sure to provide as much information about the issue as you can), our team can take a better look at the problem and work to resolve it.

    If you still have trouble, come back here and I’ll see what I can do. Sorry I can’t be of more help right now!

    -Melissa

17. Masenchipz said,

    February 15, 2009 @ 12:07 am

    why Access to pending messages is temporarily unavailable?

18. mrbill said,

    February 15, 2009 @ 1:58 am

    thanks

19. Athul B Nair said,

    February 15, 2009 @ 7:12 pm

    So when you archive it, whether it will be seen in our archived mail like in gmail.

20. rakesh said,

    February 16, 2009 @ 2:01 am

    This is very useful for us

21. Judy said,

    February 16, 2009 @ 8:52 pm

    I’m confused. I belonged to a group LMSarcoma@yahoo groups, but my email changed from verizon to my fairpoint. I can’t find my group. Can anyone tell me what happened? This group is very important and had tons of info on leiomyosarcoma for me.

22. dauddjaja said,

    February 16, 2009 @ 10:24 pm

    we’ll wait until it’ll comes ..

23. Iggy said,

    February 18, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

    We have the same problem with our group ketsaM-reConnect as others have described here.

    In Pending Messages it says: (Access to pending messages is temporarily unavailable)

    In Messages it says: The group ketsaM-reConnect is temporarily unavailable

    We’ve been down for several days now. Please help.

24. Charmaine Voisine said,

    February 19, 2009 @ 12:32 am

    I went into the settings for “archive attachments in the group” and beside that it says to remove attachments from emails.

    So I gander that those on Individuals Emails would no longer receive attachments, and would have to go on NO MAIL to receive these attachments?

    Then I do not feel this is a good idea?

    I just went and turned this feature off now, as I do not want members on Individual Emails to lose the opportunity to still receive attachments in their email.

    Please elaborate, as for a moment I felt it was a good idea for those on No mail.

    Charmaine Voisine

25. Paw_Paw said,

    February 19, 2009 @ 2:19 pm

    Here we go again, yes, I have many members upset, I have some that are blind, and depend of receiving attachments
    With the new options that are offered, I see this is to be of no help for other members.
    WHY, could you not have added one other option :::
    Store at site ( Include in emails ) ????
    This would take us back to being close to what it was several years ago, before the site storage was taken away from us.
    These options will be of no help for any one that needed to stay on no mail, or digest …
    I have to consider all members of my groups..
    Please, think of this 4th option that I make mention of..
    Meanwhile, I am having to change my groups back over to the old settings :O(

26. Dan said,

    February 19, 2009 @ 6:18 pm

    This new “feature” is not an improvement. I have to echo paw_paw’s statement above that there needs to be a 4th option, to store at site and include in emails. If I store on site, the emails become almost worthless, forcing members to click on each individual attachment to view them.

    Also, viewing messages on the web site and wanting to see the attachments is much more difficult. If I’m in a message, there should be a direct link to the attachment or, at the very least, a link into the folder that contains the attachments for that message. If I have to read a message and then sort through a lot of attachment folders to find what I need, that’s a waste of time.

    So, I’ve turned off the feature on my groups. I hope some improvements can be made to the system before it’s out of beta, else I know I won’t use it.

27. Paw_Paw said,

    February 20, 2009 @ 5:29 am

    Reading back through this, if I am reading correctly ??
    Does this mean, if I should have chosen this option, that my messages are open to public view, even though, I require membership, to read them, let alone access the archived files ???

    >>>>
    Admin Assunnah said,
    February 10, 2009 @ 12:04 am

    Thanks if you want to keep file inside email attachment in your server again. Very useful for member who only access to your mailing list using web interface, and for other member while on the road, leaving the archive email on his/her computer at home/office.
    Currently we open our mailing list archives to the public, so all yahoogroups.com visitor could read our mailing list archives without needed to become our mailing list member.
    But is it possible to give special permission to access this email attachment in the future?
    For example, while non mailing list member could read our email archives, as long as they do not become our mailing list member, they cannot access to file inside email attachment.
    In our opinion, maybe this option could have some benefit in your system, to reduce the massive download from our mailing list from non-member/public visitor.
    Thanks for your comments later, if any.
    Regards,

28. Melissa said,

    February 20, 2009 @ 3:49 pm

    @Paw_Paw,
    Thanks for your suggestion for a fourth option– I’ll be sure to pass it along. I appreciate you providing such a compelling use-case (blind members) as we want to be sure to provide an equally enjoyable experience for ALL members.

    In regards to your second comment, the short answer is no. If your content is set to private, it will remain private. Hope this helps!

    -Melissa

29. Melissa said,

    February 20, 2009 @ 3:57 pm

    @Dan,
    I have to disagree, just a bit with your comment (though I do appreciate you sharing). The new attachment feature doesn’t make all emails useless– in fact it actually makes things better for people who had previously set their preferences to receive only the daily digest (daily digest users don’t have access to attachments without this feature). Instead, this feature creates “equal access” to attachments for all users– storing them on the site irregardless of their email preferences.

    As far as the second portion of your comment goes (navigating outside of the message) I’ll be sure to share the feedback with the team.

    Thanks for commenting!

    -Melissa

30. Paw_Paw said,

    February 21, 2009 @ 2:59 am

    Thank You for Responding Melissa

    I do admit, that I did like , to a certain degree, just receiving a link to download from,since at this time I am on satellite, and limited bandwidth, but in all fairness to all members concerned, some found it more difficult, no easy organization of the stored files Etc.
    I know, that the reading programs, that the handicaped members I have , use, they are able to download the attachments when they receive them in mail, but can not, by trying to click on links or going to the group site and trying to find the files, etc.
    And at the same time, others, need to stay on digest, or no mail, a lot of the time, and then miss out on so much that has been posted to the groups.

    Yes, it is difficult at times, but we do try to take care of all our members..;O)
    I truly hope that the fourth option can be added.

    I remember so well, in the old format, being able to go to the group site, there was a list of all messages, just click on one, it opened, then there was the attachment, to click on and download, if you so desired, that was so easy ..( hint hint ) :O)

    Thanks so Much

    Paw Paw

    P.S. , thanks for answering the question on the open files :O)

31. Foxye said,

    February 23, 2009 @ 9:09 am

    Hello,

    I have been eagerly waiting for this feature since you first mentioned it would be coming, but it is not on my group yet. Any idea when we will have it?

    Thank you!

32. Paulo Mendoza said,

    February 23, 2009 @ 10:09 am

    I’ve been having this problem for years.
    All the attachments being sent in my yahoogroup acct would always appear as file not stored.
    Now after clicking a link as advised by the HELP site, the attachment says click attachment on the ledt navigation bar.

    Am hoping that i can view the attachments soon.

33. HarryH said,

    February 23, 2009 @ 4:05 pm

    I greatly prefer to receive my email attachments directly rather than be required to login to the Yahoo group to see the attachment. Is this a moderator setting? Years ago, the attachments were included as well as archived in the group; is this what the Beta is supposed to accomplish?

34. jay vinton said,

    February 24, 2009 @ 8:33 am

    to summarize what I think people are reporting with regard to the new attachments feature:

    1. those who are receiving individual emails are seeing a link at the bottom of the email that goes to the attachment in the email I sent to gmf, now stored in yahoo’s gmf attachments archive.

    2. that is the same as what I see in my daily gmf digest, a link to the attachment in the gmf attachments archive.

    3. but the/my email in the gmf message archive is missing a clickable link to the attachment. Instead one has to click on the attachments archive link on the left side of the page, and go find the attachment. Easy when there’s only one , won’t be so easy when there are thousands.

    Yahoo should add the direct attachment link to the messages in the archives, the same as in cases 1. and 2. above.

    — In GroupManagersForum@yahoogroups.com, “Vinton, Jay (NIH/CIT) [C]” wrote:
    >
    > Testing the new attachments feature.
    >
    > Please see if you can access the attached word doc in the gmf web site message archives.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >

35. Melissa said,

    February 24, 2009 @ 11:31 am

    @Jay
    Thanks for the suggestion/feedback! I/we appreciate it. Great points.

    As it stands, any attachments that are sent in the same message are put into a folder together, but these are not grouped by thread. (Meaning if four people responded to topic A, and all four people included attachments, separate folders would appear for A1, A2, A3, and A4 and they would not nest beneath each other.) Nesting within the attachments section would make it easier to sort through these attachments once they accumulate, and linking within the messages would also make it easier to access.

    -Melissa

36. Melissa said,

    February 24, 2009 @ 12:13 pm

    @HarryH,
    Yes this is a moderator setting as a result of the new Attachment beta. If you’re not the moderator of the group that is experiencing this, I suggest you contact him/her and voice your concerns and see if they’re interested in switching back.

    Thanks.

    -Melissa

37. Melissa said,

    February 24, 2009 @ 12:17 pm

    @Paulo,
    The attachment feature is not a retroactive feature– your past attachments will not appear in the folders– however, all future attachments you send out will be stored there, should you choose to use this feature.

    I hope this helps clarify things.

    -Melissa

38. James said,

    February 24, 2009 @ 1:36 pm

    So will restoring attachments affect the message archives as it did in the past…meaning older messages were deleted because of the storage space for messages being eaten up by the attachment files?

39. Asiimwe said,

    March 2, 2009 @ 1:29 am

    may attachment cant open why?

40. Antonio said,

    March 10, 2009 @ 6:41 am

    Thanks for taking care of my suggestion

41. Ganesh said,

    March 22, 2009 @ 8:35 am

    There is a problem in my yahoogroup.
    When i am trying to approve pending message it
    say following error.

    (Access to pending messages is temporarily unavailable)

    Can anyone gudide me what to do now to
    solve this problem?

    Ganesh

42. ASHWANI said,

    April 1, 2009 @ 3:30 am

    plese any girl photo send me and ask me

43. sumanth said,

    April 1, 2009 @ 5:46 pm

    send me any videos which can be downloaded

44. RosL said,

    April 2, 2009 @ 1:58 pm

    It’s fine having this, but how ON EARTH do members download attachments to their own computers – which is what they want to do????

    We send a tremendously high volume of attachments in one of the groups I’m in – the storage space is going to fill up mighty quickly.

45. CA GIRISH KULKARNI, AURANGABAD said,

    April 5, 2009 @ 8:15 pm

    Thank for announcement. Good Feature. But start at earliest.

46. amin said,

    April 6, 2009 @ 10:28 am

    thank you very much

47. Bobbie Curry said,

    April 9, 2009 @ 6:26 pm

    We liked the old method best. When I leave a comment to a photo it gives me a error message saying “An error occurred” and the note comment does not go through.
    We appreciate you and all you try to do for us. Guess my feelings are that if it is not broke….”Don’t fix it’.

48. Rick O'Keefe said,

    April 29, 2009 @ 11:24 pm

    At last! We are a technical forum, and often our messages have attached diagrams, schematics, or photos tha are necessary. Our forum was greatly made less useful when the attachment storage was removed six years ago.
    I would hope that both storage and including in the initial e-mail simultaneously would be available. We sure hope the new system works!

49. Teks said,

    May 3, 2009 @ 10:35 pm

    It’s kinda hard to download the attachments with this new arrangement (the attachments archived on site), unlike if the attachments were included in the emails. But then again, if you sent it out with the emails, you can’t have them archived.

    If it’s archived as well as sent out, that will probably defeat the purpose for which this feature was introduced in the first place since its design was to reduce bandwidth usage, plus it’ll eat up Yahoo’s storage resources.

    IMHO, the best thing to do is to let the group members, not the group owners, choose the setting that would be applicable to them. That’s the only option that would cater to the needs of most people.

    Just my 2 cents worth…

50. Robert Nielsen said,

    May 13, 2009 @ 9:25 pm

    I’m curious as to why my group (BoundTiedGagged) hasn’t migrated over to the new attachment storage feature yet. I do show 100GB of storage under my Photos section, but do not see the “Attachments” link on my left hand menu. Please advise.

    Sincerely,

    Robert Nielsen
    Owner/Moderator, Yahoo! Groups boundtiedgagged

51. Hermine Stover said,

    June 27, 2009 @ 9:02 am

    everythiing was FINE. i am sorry you are changing things. nobody on my lists and on the lists to which I belong is doing the happy dance over this.

52. Dale La Forest said,

    June 27, 2009 @ 9:09 am

    It sounds like a lot of people aren’t happy about learning new tricks. Perhaps most of their difficulties are the result on not knowing how to use their computers. I think most of us are self taught and this leads to large knowledge gaps in how we understand how our computer programs work
    I too struggle, but at least make an attempt to understand how and why changes occur.

53. jed elroy said,

    July 1, 2009 @ 4:56 am

    you see… our professor mailed us via the yahoo groups and attached 2 files. i cant download either because i dont know how. please tell me how. when i click attachments, it says that “The Group’s Email Attachment Archive setting is currently set to not archive attachments:. A classmate of mine was able to download it. but i cant! so what should i do?

54. alexandre van de sande said,

    August 19, 2009 @ 3:32 pm

    Can you please allow users to disable the new attachment mode?

    It really bugs when a message that has an attachment breaks a conversation on gmail, and forces everyone to see the new message separated. Also I wanto to have direct access to my files, not having to click anything extra. thanks..

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