List Owners & Moderators FAQ

Viewing 100 messages at a time

Take this url: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GROUP/messages/1?expand=1&viscount=100 Change "GROUP" to your group's name and change "messages/1" to wherever number message you want to start viewing at and then paste that url in your browser. Bookmark it too so you have it handy when... continue reading

Uuencoded Attachments

Q: I set my list to strip attachments and an attachment went thru! Is Yahoo broken??? A: No, Yahoo's not broken, but there is one kind of encoding for attached files that makes them not really an attachment, called "uuencode".... continue reading

Changing categories

Q: The Edit button for the category on the Management page is missing! (or) Help my group is in the Adult category and it's for grandmothers who knit! How can I change my list's category? A: Ask the Yahoo surfing... continue reading

Contacting Yahoogroups

If you're in the US, here's the contact info for Yahoogroups: Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, California 94089 Phone (408) 349-3300 Fax (408) 349-3301 Office Hours 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST But it's difficult to get a human... continue reading

Delete Many Messages in your Groups Archive

Gordon S. created this script and Paul hosts it on his site: Delete Messages in a Yahoogroup's Message Archive It opens a framed view of Yahoogroups, you sign in on the bottom part, find your group and then use the... continue reading

Why isn't my member list up to date?

Q: I know that people have joined my group but they're not showing up in my member list! And there's people who have unsubbed and they're still in my member list! What's going on? A: If your group has over... continue reading

Transferring a Yahoogroup to Mailman or Smartgroups

If you're moving a list from Yahoogroups to Mailman, here's a nifty Perl script that will retrieve the group message archives and save them in the Mailman mbox format which can then be uploaded to Mailman. Yahoo2mBox You'll need to... continue reading

Downloading Message Archives

Backstreet Downloader is an offline browser for downloading any website or part of a website to your computer. You can choose to download as html pages (lots of disk space) or as compressed .zip files. You will have to set... continue reading

How to turn OFF SpamGuard

The number one question today is "How to turn off SpamGuard"! Here's detailed instructions: Go to the home page of each Yahoogroup you own. Click the "Management" link (in the left-side navigation hyperlinks). Under "Group Settings", click on "Messages". In... continue reading

What is bouncing? (aka Help! A list member stopped receiving list mail!)

Q. What the heck is bouncing? A. It's the email equivalent of a telephone busy signal (soft bounce) or a "this number has been disconnected" message (hard bounce) for a telephone number. Soft bounces (busy signal) happen when the recipient's... continue reading

I didn't approve that message, how did it get approved?

Q. A pending message got approved but I (and any other list owners or moderators) didn't approve it. It shows in the message headers and in the management logs that I did but I swear I didn't! How did this... continue reading

Protect your list by creating a backup owner

On Yahoogroups, you can now have co-owners as well as moderators. If you go to your member list, click on Edit for any list member that has a Yahoo ID linked to their membership, you'll see these two options: [... continue reading

Reporting abuse to Yahoogroups

If you've got a spammer using a Yahoo ID and Yahoo email address, you can report them to Yahoogroups. The form is a bit outdated, you'll need to select "clubs" as they've never added groups to the list. If you've... continue reading

Yahoo removing bouncing members after six months

Yahoo is now removing bouncing members who have been bouncing for more than six months (well, that's what they say, but nothing's perfect so you may still find members who've bouncing for longer than six months that haven't been removed).... continue reading