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Daniel,

I'm looking at importing a list of members from our old mailing
software into a subgroup and have been testing this out with just my
own personal email. It seems that groups.io is generating 4 emails:

As you may have surmised, that's because adding a member to the subgroup automatically adds them to the primary (main) group.

Is there any way to cut this down to just 2, or even 1 email?

I don't think you can eliminate 3 & 4, they are there to make sure the person is informed and consenting.

It used to be that 1 & 2 (the Welcome messages) would not be sent for Transfers or Direct Add if you left the stock message in place, but would if you modified it. However, the interface for Member Notices has been radically altered since that time, so it may not work that way anymore.

You might want to experiment with marking none of your Welcome Messages as "Active", or having none in your list, or something like that. I can't readily test this for you because I don't have the Direct Add feature in my test group.

My thought was that the Direct Add feature would help us more
seamlessly transition into groups.io, but I'm worried about
"blasting" our members from the start.

It may be that the best you can do is forewarn the members about the upcoming messages. It is likely a good idea to forewarn them about the change in any case.

I'm guessing your old list isn't Yahoo or Google Groups (or else you might consider the Easy Group Transfer method). But have a look at this Wiki page and see if you can adapt any of the ideas to your circumstances:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Transfer-from-Yahoo-Groups

Good luck!
Shal