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Beth,

1. A group can have unlimited subgroups, but subgroups can not have
their own subgroups correct?

Correct.

(Hint, that would be very helpful for a future enhancement)

Beta is the official "suggestion box" for Groups.io, they do not monitor GMF.

2. Does the subgroup inherit the settings of the main group?

No.

But it does inherit the primary group's owners (and moderators, I think), regardless of whether they are added to the subgroup's Members list.

3. Is there a way to bulk add all members of the group to a subgroup?

Nope. Just a list of primary members with columns of checkboxes per subgroups on the Admin > Subgroups page of the primary group.

4. A subgroup can be renamed, but there seems to be a delay on the
email address hitting the "new" subgroup; they tend to get lost for a
while.

The internet's domain name system (DNS) can take a while to catch up with changes to domain listings, but that should only affect changes to the "subdomain" part of the primary and subgroup addresses.

It is also possible that browser caching of web pages will confuse appearances, and of course auto-complete and address book entries kept by members' email interfaces will remember the old name.

Is it OK to rename the subgroup (thinking of dividing data by
meeting date as an example).
5. After the subgroup has been renamed, can the old subgroup name be
used over and over

Yes.

(again meeting types of data - have a subgroup named CurrentMeeting
and after the meeting is over rename to JanMeeting, then recreate
CurrentMeeting to use again) - is there a better way?

I think I would skip the CurrentMeeting idea and just name it JanMeeting from the get-go. Then you don't have to do anything about it until next year.

6. I have created a test group with subgroups. I have added several
members to the group and subgroup and tried to send messages - both
through "new topic" and email. The members aren't getting the emails
- just the owner. Any ideas what I haven't set up correctly (e.g.
stupid mistakes to look for)

...

The one flaky part of this is that both of those unique email
addresses eventually forward to my email address (all are gmail), but
groups.io wouldn't know that.

I think you've bumped into the "Gmail won't show you multiple copies of the same message" issue.

That is, your "members" are being sent, and are receiving, their copies of the messages. But the Gmail interface where you're looking sees three copies of a message with the same Message-ID field in the header. It decides you don't need to see the duplicates.

This is the same behavior, by the way, which causes members of Yahoo Groups (and other list services) not to "receive" their own messages back from the group. They do, but Gmail won't show them because they are "duplicates" of the sent message. Groups.io works around that via a setting in your account.

The solution, for your testing purposes, is to look for the "members" copies of the messages in those members' Gmail inboxes.

Shal


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