{"id":584,"date":"2009-03-16T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T23:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Liako.Biz\/?p=584"},"modified":"2009-03-16T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T23:30:50","slug":"best-error-message-ever-for-data-portability-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/best-error-message-ever-for-data-portability-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Best error message ever (for Data Portability in action)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we were preparing for the upgrade of <a href=\"http:\/\/dataportability.org\">DataPortability Project&#8217;s<\/a> website, we realised we needed to close off some of our legacy mailing lists&#8230;but we didn&#8217;t want to lose the hundreds of people already on these mailing lists. So we decide to export the emails and paste them into the new Google group as subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>I then got this error message.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/liako\/3357404743\/\" title=\"email permissions by liako, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3465\/3357404743_5d2e2c3e58.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"171\" alt=\"email permissions\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The has to be one of the best error messages I have ever seen.  Yes I&#8217;m happy that I could port the data from a legacy system\/group to a new one, using an open standard (CSV). Yes, I was impressed that the Google Groups team supports this functionality (who I am told is just one Google engineer and are completely understaffed). But what blew me away was the fact Google was able to recognise how to treat these emails.<\/p>\n<p>These particular people have opted to not allow someone to reuse their e-mail, other than the intended purpose for which they submitted it (which was to be subscribed to this legacy Group). Google recognised that and told me I wasn&#8217;t allowed to do it as part of my batch add.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Google respecting their users, while making life a hell of a lot easier for me as an administrator of these mailing lists.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to be helped out like that, because I don&#8217;t want to step on any toes. And these people are happy, because they have control of the way their data is used. That&#8217;s what I call &#8220;Awesome&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we were preparing for the upgrade of DataPortability Project&#8217;s website, we realised we needed to close off some of our legacy mailing lists&#8230;but we didn&#8217;t want to lose the hundreds of people already on these mailing lists. So we decide to export the emails and paste them into the new Google group as subscribers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119,120,139,169,170,268],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dataportability","tag-data","tag-data-portability","tag-email","tag-google","tag-google-groups","tag-people","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}