Shal,?

***If you upgrade the group to premium you can do that. You could choose the Premium for one month option, change them all during your 30 days, then the group would revert back to Basic.***

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o.k. This is an option. I vaguely remember this was a subject in beta. Good idea.

***They could if they had already set up a password for their Groups.io account. ***

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Does this mean, they can join by password without an email-adress? I thought you can only join by existing e-mail adress and then create a new password if you had forgotten the old one …..

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***But from what you say these are likely people who didn't ever log in to Groups.io.***

For some of them this is reality, unfortunately.

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***An invitation is probably the easiest answer for them. They can reply to it and be subscribed under their new address without having to go to Groups.io's web pages. If they only want to read and post by email that's pretty simple.***

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o.k.

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***Absent an email address change (by you or by them), their old membership will remain bouncing.***

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Of course. I remove that old one and approve of the new one.

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*** Whether you invite them, or they use the +subscribe email command, or they use the Join/Apply button on your group's home page, those will all create a new subscription based on their new address. Which does abandon their ownership of any posts or uploaded content they may have contributed under their old email address.***

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Ownership yes, but they can read the old stuff online if they want to including theirs, I hope.

One more question, Shal, even though I am not quite sure if this was already answered somewhere: Could it be that all yahoo-adresses have stopped functioning in the course of the last few months or years? Otherwise it?s hard to understand why almost all of the bounced members have yahoo-adresses and are not reachable any more.

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Victoria

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