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Sharon . . .
On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 23:00:51 +0000 (UTC), "Sharon Pohlman via Groups.Io" <ceegee2006@...> wrote: What I am not liking is when IO determines that something is spam so they remove the post AND the member. I donot think that is right. its my group let me decide if it is spaqm and if the member should be removed.GIO doesn't remove a member for sending SPAM to the group. That is up to the moderators to determine. Now if the member deletes a message from GIO and it's in their spam folder, they mark it as SPAM, or their email provider marks it as SPAM and it's left in the spam folder long enough that the email provider automatically deletes it, then GIO will unsubscribe them. This arrangement had to be agreed upon by forum platforms like GIO to reduce unwanted messages for the email users (members). I believe this is part of the DMARC specification for the web to help reduce spam. At any rate, if GIO did not implement this, they would be blacklisted by some email providers. This is supposed to be for our protection but it only works well if people are aware of how it works and to NOT mark messages as spam that aren't, check their spam folders, don't delete a message in the spam folder that isn't spam, etc. It's up to the members to treat GIO messages as messages and not SPAM, and for moderators/owners to train and educate their members about this. If the members don't read your messages about this (you do send out a message now and then about this, don't you?), then they will end up being kicked off the group. Some of our groups have a monthly reminder sent out about this so new members will see this soon after they join. I might make it a message they will get when joining, too, but we haven't had many members make that mistake and get kicked out. Most of those who have immediately rejoin, and hopefully they actually read the email they get after being removed. Do I like the way this works? Not at all. But we're stuck with it since email providers have demanded it and we wouldn't be getting messages from forum platforms without the platforms agreeing to do this. Donald ---------------------------------------------------- Join the Icom group, a general Icom (amateur radio) discussion group on Groups.io and some other groups: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp ---------------------------------- **also, a new self-help group dedicated to your cat's health: /g/CatVet (just launched) **and a group to discuss sourdough bread baking: |
