[UCIMC-Tech] BTP Email lists

[Stuart Levy]

Curious - Jay, do you have a good way to load names into a Google Groups 
list?

It used to allow uploading a bunch of people and auto-subscribing them, 
and that may still be possible, but their anti-spam provisions make it 
very difficult.   You upload a very small number of people at a time, 
and if you load too many - and they won't tell you how many that is - 
then you're locked out and can upload no more for another day or so.     
I was able to load a few tens at a time, up to most of a hundred per 
day, when last doing this a couple years ago.   So a 500-person list 
took more than a week to migrate, including a few lockouts.   I don't 
know how this compares with the BTP lists.

Uploading addresses for people who then get Google 
invitations-to-subscribe is less restrictive.   But unless you have a 
good way of telling people what to expect, most will just miss the 
subscription-invitation, or at least won't respond to it.

Not sure whether the above is helpful, but if you haven't already done 
that migration, then maybe it'll give you an easier time than I had.   
(I don't have access to do the things you'd actually want tech help 
with, like getting the existing lists to forward messages to your new 
google groups.)



On 7/23/14 3:34 PM, Jay Schubert wrote:
> Techsters,
>
> Books to Prisoners has decide to migrate our email lists over to 
> Google Groups for spam control, reliability and user experience 
> issues.  We have three lists total on chambana.net 
> <http://chambana.net> and we will be ready to decommission them in the 
> coming days (not immediately).
>
> We will be starting with *Keystaff*, then *Jail Library*, then the 
> *General *list.
>
> Is anyone available to help with this effort?
>
> thanks,
> Jay
>
>
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