[UCIMC-Tech] BTP Email lists

[Chris Ritzo]

I know that if you're running google apps for business/non-profit, then
you can bulk subscribe people. Is this what you guys are doing, Jay?
What specifically are you looking for help with? Migrating users &
archives? DNS redirect once the switch has been made?

-Chris


On Wed 23 Jul 2014 05:22:10 PM EDT, Stuart Levy wrote:
> 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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