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Re: Quick question. How to change the message?
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 01:08 AM, Gisela Dawson wrote:
Thanks for that. Now Bruce has explained about the "boilerplate" text that Groups.io adds as a matter of necessity, so I will not repeat that. Let us look at your existing message in detail; the following is what Groups.io adds to top and tail your message customisation:? You have been invited by Gisela Dawson to join the??group?[email protected].
The following message was included by Gisela Dawson: ... and If you have questions about this invitation, send them to?[email protected].
To accept the invitation, please reply to this email, or you may?accept the invitation?on the website. This link will expire in 14 days, on 05/09/2023 at 11:04am PDT.?If you are not interested, or if [Invitee Email Address] is not your email address, please ignore this email.
The above are "fixed" (as already explained) and any change can only be done by Mark Fletcher; you would have to negotiate with him via the beta group.? Now let us look more closely at your customisation:? You have been invited by Catalinas of Santa Monica Bay to join??group?catalina-fleet.
Please accept this invitation so that you will be able to receive emails and notifications?
of upcoming meetings, cruises and events and be apprised of all that is going on.??
This is our only means of communication to the Catalina group.
It also allows you to participate in any discussions on-line.
Why is the first sentence there? It is a nearly word for word copy of the text added by Groups.io.? ? Next; is there a good reason for the next line to be a different font? As well as a different typeface it has the appearance of being a different font size, although that is not strictly the case. IMHO it makes the whole thing rather harder to read. The sentence continues: "...upcoming meetings, cruises and events and be apprised of all that is going on".? The phrase I have underlined is redundant because of the words that precede it - having mentioned "meetings, cruises, and events" you have more or less covered everything that is going on!? Your next sentence then reads:?This is our only means of communication to the Catalina group. As far as I can see that sentence is completely unnecessary. You then add (in your final sentence) "It also allows you to participate in any discussions on-line". Why not combine that fact immediately after the comment about "meetings, cruises and events"?? If I may take the liberty of rewriting your customisation for you I suggest the following: If you accept this invitation to join us you will be able to receive notifications about meetings, cruises and other events, and be able to take part in the Group's on-line discussions, using either email or the web interface. That has reduced the word count rather significantly and IMHO is much easier to read. In fact it is perhaps just a bit short, so why not preface it with a slightly modified quotation from your Home Page, thus: We are a group of enthusiastic owners of Catalina sailboats. We own about 75 boats, sailing out of Marina del Rey, California. We started as all C36 owners, but now have boats in the range of 28' to 47'. If you accept this invitation to join us you will be able to receive notifications about meetings, cruises and other events, and be able to take part in the Group's on-line discussions, using either email or the web interface. You mentioned not being able to change any wording; you can change your customisation by going to Admin > Settings > Member Notices and then clicking on the existing "Invite" notice.? If you make any changes don't forget to click on Update Notice when you have finished.? Chris PS: sorry the above rather long... :)? |
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