Received from Frank Greco at 3/15/2019 02:31 AM UTC:
Clearly I can train my gmail's ML back-end to recognize the emails as legitimate. However this does not address the other users out there; some don't even know they have an email from our group because its in their SPAM folder. Any suggestions are more than welcome.
The problem isn't with Groups.io so there's nothing that can be done on the Groups.io end of things... and Google isn't going to change as far as overly aggressive spam filtering goes... so I suggest that since you know how to check your spam folder and how to mark good messages found there as not spam... that you educate your users on how to do the same. Even if some/many of them are no more tech savvy than a brick, they should be able to follow step by step (click by click) instructions... and will be far more inclined to do so if told at the same time that it isn't a Groups.io problem and that following those instructions is their only hope for improvement.
Of course, the instructions have to make it past the GMail spam filter... :-(
Jim H