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Re: Posting an Owner message to the group (was: Changing Owner to Administrator)


 

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Bruce (and Ronaldo),

Ronaldo -- By checking the box at upper left, you can select every member on that page. If you also use infinite scroll,?in principle?you should be able to select everyone in in the group in this manner and post a private message to each one using the +owner address.
I admit that I have not actually tested this. If you do, please report back on how it went.

I also don't know if/how infinite screwall would work in this scenario as I detest using it anywhere not just here, but what does work impeccably is a URL hack:

1. Go to the members admin page.
2. The URL will display as /g/.../members
3. Click on one of the sorting links, like DisplayName, to force the page to display the code parameter list in the URL.
4. The URL will now look like /g/.../members?p=fullname,members,,20,1,0,0
5. Notice the 20 in the parameter list, it will be there if you haven't touched your default account settings, otherwise it will be the value you have selected, mine is 100 for example.
6. Edit the URL, change that value to your group member count +1 at the minimum, or round up, and press Enter.
7. The whole member list is now presented at once, no need for pressing PageDown/End/mouseclicks to get that -OneOfTheWorstUIdesignIdeas- to get them all; and as long as you don't change from that Members setting (by selecting Mods, Bouncing, etc), you can do anything the Actions allow, including sending messages, and when you are back, the custom value you used remains, so it's very useful when you're doing things en masse.

And the unavoidable disclaimer: It works great for the up to the 5K members one of my groups has, and although I can change it to 10000 for example and the page renders fine, I haven't tried it actually using it with a larger member number group, so if anyone reading this has a very large group, it's a good time to test this and let us know.

I had started a wiki on using this hack to make member admin stuff easier, one of these days I need to finish it up...

/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/15356

Cheers,
Christos


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