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KIGRPS-121109: Why am I getting "Access to pending messages temporarily unavailable" error?

Description: Some group Moderators and Owners are seeing the following error when accessing pending messages on the groups website:

"Access to pending messages is temporarily unavailable"

Current Status: UNRESOLVED. Engineering is aware of the issue and is currently working to resolve it.

Workaround: Approve pending messages via email instead of on the website.

Additional Details:

If you are experiencing this issue, please Answer below so we can attempt to gauge the impact of the problem.

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Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue!

Update:

*** UPDATE 11/23/2012 ***

This issue has been resolved.

If you are still experiencing this issue, please post a new question with as much details as possible about the issue and what group you're experiencing it in.

Thanks for your patience as we worked to resolve this issue!

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  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

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    Check your Browser in others which to another if you have one and see if the problem clears. If not clean your browsers by clicking Hold Alt-type X, note a menu should appear. Now go down to INTERNET OPTIONS and click another menu will appear Keep the top box open and mark all others below it and click delete. This will remove errors and junk files which may be creating the issues for you. Now try a restart and see if it works.

    Now lets work on the computer and this should be performed once a week kind of a workout for your computer.

    Now we have fixed the Browser above now we have to clean up the PC. Click on Start lower left and onto ALL PROGRAMS, Next look for the folder called ACCESSORIES , NOW remember this path and look down for SYSTEM TOOLS: Now look for DISK CLEANUP and run it a few types until you see all "0" showing now you have to check the open boxes and OK then Delete Files. This is from viewing the internet as it stacks up over time and loads a lot of junk. Do this until you only have four "0" showing. Now go back to SYSTEM TOOLS and look for DEFRAGMINTER Click on that and here in a nut shell is what is going on. Your Hard Drive is spinning at a high RPM's and as it pickup a download, junk files, errors, history it just writes it onto disk. What you are doing when youde-fragg is put everything back into alignment in other words think of a book case with book every where. You are starting at the top and closing all spaces and the book are going into order from A through Z and the number 1 through 9. Got the picture, this make finding thing EASY for your computer. The New Norton 2012 will now do this automatically if you set it up that way.

    Source(s):

    There is a valid Yahoo email where you can forward such scam emails. I'll try to find it for you if no one else provides it. Otherwise, you can simply delete the scam mail.

    EDIT: One way you can report that email is by using this form:

    http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=cont%E2%80%A6

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ym%E2%80%A6

    http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en%E2%80%A6

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/answers%E2%80%A6

    If you have any difficulties with that form, try this one:

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ym%E2%80%A6

  • shalf
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    I've been seeing it sporadically in GroupManagersForum and yahoo_group_of_groups, in fact have some pending messages I can't access right now.

    A weird thing happened a moment ago in GroupManagersForum, I have three notices of pending messages and I clicked the web link in the third one. The pending message was displayed, as 4 of 4; Curious why 4 rather than 3 I clicked the Previous link and was able to display the prior, and again click Previous and again see the prior message, then again Clicked Previous. The message showing as 1 of 4 pending was a message already approved and posted! I had approved it by email, yet there it was.

    Spooked, I decided not to approve or reject it. Rather I clicked Next to go approve the later messages. Blam -- I got the "unavailable" message, and have ever since. I'll now go approve the other three by email and see what happens.

    [later]

    Dang, it's a shame that the Moderator Activity log doesn't show the pending-message number of messages approved by email (only by web). It would have been fun to post the two log entries: approving and deleting the same message, or approving the same message twice -- both of which just occurred.

  • 9 years ago

    Only because there's no where else to ask, but why not pin this to the top in place of the Still receiving emails from a group after unsubscribing? People will miss this entry as more people post questions, as they probably never seen this issue previously posted by others.

    Or why not update the Groups Blog for issues like this, and pin that to Answers group? I seen the Blog has 2 newer entries, so it seems active again.

    http://www.ygroupsblog.com/

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    This has been an issue for almost a week now. My group is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pixiesrule

    It's causing loads of extra work.... AND approving by email isn't working as well. It either DOES or it DOES not. And posting of the messages is taking about an hour to show up.

  • 5 years ago

    I am not equipped entry pending messages and my dwelling web page is just not displaying the contemporary activity either. Large system defects, i can see the place they are engaged on the aid pages and new apps. Hope they hurry and fix this. I just started promoting for new contributors and obtained a number of and now I can't approve their posts.

  • 9 years ago

    dunno.

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