On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 11:44 AM, Chris Klemmer wrote:
...my group is considering?requiring new members to provide a real name and an introduction or user profile.
There is no way of making applicants provide a real name; even if it was asked for thre would be nothing to prevent them using Deputy Dawg (or similar) unless Mark automatically barred obvious cartoon characters. On a less facetious level it would be perfectly possible to use John Smith or some other unremarkable name.
Requiring an
Introduction is possible now, using the
Pending Subscription Message capability which is available for groups set up (or changed to be) as Restricted.?
The term
user profile is perhaps not a good one to use because Groups.io already has that in use, and it is nothing more than another "name" (which may or may not truly reflect the user's actual name) but that is an
Account level function not a
Group level one.
Suffice to say that having a Restricted group with an active Pending Subscription mesage requirement is the usual way in which this potential problem is addressed.
Chris.
(Which
is my real name!)
