YahooGroupedia

 

A free collection of reference material about Yahoo! Groups, with aspirations of becoming encyclopedic.

 

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2020 Closure of Yahoo Groups

• Yahoo Groups to shut down on December 15, 2020
• Download your group's Manage Members list — 1000-member export limit removed
  

 

2019 Changes in Yahoo Groups

• Understand what's changed in Yahoo Groups
• Deadline to download your data: - 2020-01-31 11:59 pm Pacific (2020-02-01 07:59 UTC)
• Group's content no longer accessible.
• Message Digests are gone, sort-of, but you can use an email command to switch your subscription to Digest.
• Message Moderation is gone, sort-of.
• The Activity log is gone.
• The Bouncing members list is gone, but the status is in their Manage Members page.

 

FAQs

• How do I use email commands to change subscription settings?
• "Sorry, an error occurred while loading the content" try the "Browser Ritual".
• Export the Member list - a Chrome application

 

 

Pre-change Information

 

The information below has not been updated to reflect the 2019 Changes to Yahoo Groups. Updating this info will be an ongoing process.

 

FAQs

• How do I join a Yahoo! Group?
• How do I change my email address?
• How do I get help? (please write me)
• How do I get support from Yahoo?
• Keeping your Yahoo Account secure [Please write me]
• Glossary
• Have two or more Accounts [Please write me]
• Use two or more browsers [Please write me]

 

Member Management

• Troll-proof your group
• NEO bouncing problems 

 

Messages

• Reject a pending message, with cc to the other moderators
• Blogs Posting Group Messages

 

Info/About page

• How to create an image link to your web site
• How to post a Bigger Home Page Photo

 
Other Features

 

How Yahoo! Groups works

• A Beginner's Guide
• Annotated screen shots of Yahoo Groups pages.
• Message Moderation
• Group Settings
• Changes to Fully Featured Digest

 

 

Suggestions, Bugs and Workarounds

• Bugs and workarounds

 

Old Articles

• Export - a Chrome application
• AT&T Separating from Yahoo, June 30, 2017
• Yahoo Groups "neo" - 2013
• Disability Access to Neo
• User text escaping flaws - 2013
• The New Yahoo Groups Calendar -- 2012 
• Decoding the members list as exported by Neo
• How to make a Modified Group Join Button (classic)
• The Pinboard [ feature removed Nov 4th 2014 ]
• Export the Member list No longer supported - Prototype scripts (in zip format) for exporting a complete list to a CSV file.
• Uses an API call to bypass the 1000 record export limitation.
• These require node.js, a "cookies.txt" for a group moderator, and the "wget" program.
• They have been tested in Windows 7 and with Cygwin for Windows.
• A documentation file, "Doc.txt" has been included.