FAQ on Moving from Yahoo Groups Overview with links for more information. https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/FAQ-on-Moving-from-Yahoo-Groups Frances -- FAQ on Moving from YahooGroups GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers

This GroupManagersForum is founded in the tradition of the GroupManagersForum ( https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GroupManagersForum/conversations/messages/2 ) on Yahoo! Groups. Attachments are allowed and the judicious use of screen shots and other illustrations is encouraged. To prevent malicious attachments, avoid spam, off-topic messages, and certain kinds of spoofing, ALL messages sent to GMF are moderated. Despite these measures, be aware that the bad guys are clever so there's no guarantee that we'll always succeed; you are encouraged to be vigilant against any and all threats arriving via email. Your GMF moderators make no guarantees regarding the safety of emails arriving from this or any other Groups.io address. Don't post JUST to advertise your groups. Listing your group in your signature is perfectly acceptable, just make sure there's content in your post. Do post something about being a Groups.io group owner, moderator or member. What suggestions do you have for improving Groups.io? What works for growing your group? When is it a good idea to create an unlisted group? How do you manage the role of owner on multiple groups? How do you manage playing owner on one group and member on others? There is power in numbers. Ask "How to" questions: "How do you do...[function of your choice]?" We all have to learn somewhere Through the contributions of its members this cloup can become a powerful voice for education, quality, change and improvement in Groups.io -- provided we work and focus on that as our collective goal. -- Shal *HELP:* GMF Wiki - https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/home Official Help - https://groups.io/static/help Search GMF messages - https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/topics Search by hashtag - click on the number of posts - https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/hashtags

A summary of your choices in light of recent stoppage of Easy Group Transfer. This page discusses methods for moving any archived group content you have, whether from a Yahoo Group or other list/group service, into a Groups.io group. Some of it is about options to archive your messages, etc. that are on Yahoo. Only a few days more for that. https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Moving-to-Groups.io Frances -- GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers ( https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki )

See this in Slate about the extension: https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/yahoo-groups-is-ending-and-verizon-is-making-it-hard-for-people-to-archive-its-content.html PC Magazine reports - "Verizon still plans on shutting down Yahoo Groups on Dec. 15 as a discussion board site. However, the company is going to extend the deadline for users to download content from their pages to Jan. 31, 2020. "Individual Groups users can use this tool to download any content he or she posted on Yahoo Groups," the company said in an email." That gives you time to use getmydata - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/getmydata That download creates a download in mbox format. A couple of options then. See https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Moving-to-Groups.io Frances -- Moving to Groups.io (without easy transfer) GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers