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On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 11:47 AM, Cal wrote:

But making the committee be in a subgroup brings me back to these disadvantages:

(a) everyone would have to use [email protected] rather than [email protected] which is much cleaner, and

(b) everyone would have to belong to the (dummy) main group, which is likely to cause confusion, espcially with the email address situation described in (a).

Not a great situation.

It sounds like you didn't fully understand the Groups.io structure before you started using it. A committee is typically made up from a subset of the membership so it seems to make sense to have that in a subgroup. Everyone must be in the main group if they belong to a subgroup of that; it's how Groups.io works and 'main' is not a 'dummy' group. You may choose to make it an Announcement group so only Mods can post there and have another subgroup that all members are also in for general discussion but that seems more trouble than it's worth to me.

If you have subgroups, your main group can be addressed in two ways, either groupname@groups.io or main@groupname.groups.io. You can rename 'main' to something else if it helps (but be aware of the implications first). I renamed my 'main' group to 'allmembers' as that's what it contains and my members post to allmembers@groupname.groups.io to send a message to everyone in the group.

Your committee and subcommittee subgroups could then become committee@groupsname.groups.io and subcommittee@groupname.groups.io. Each subgroup is almost a stand-alone group so you can decide who goes where (with the proviso that everyone is a member of the main group).

If you are unable or not willing to change the structure of your group then perhaps your other alternative would be to create an entirely new group but that would likely involve extra admin for you or someone else.

Regards
Andy