I agree with Barb on this.? I usually err on the side of the lightest moderation possible, and this seems like overkill to me.? As an example, I belong to several recipe groups.? Sometimes a member cross-posts a recipe to more than one of those groups.? For no reason I can see other than multiple recipients, Gmail will send one of them to spam and the others to the inbox.? I try to stay on top of that and mark them not spam as soon as I see them, but I know not all my members read their messages every day or even every week.? Sometimes a message comes through the groups that really is spam, or maybe a malware link sent by accident or hacking from a member who is allowed to post without moderation.? Gmail appropriately puts them in the spam box and I delete them without opening.? The members of these groups have different levels of sophistication with email groups and programs, from very technically challenged to IT experts.? I would not be at all happy to lose members because of something that to me hurts no one.? Yahoo Groups and email as a form of communication have survived the spam folder for many years.? Groups.io is getting better all the time and this group is doing a great deal to help make it that way, so please feel free to explain to me what about this issue I don't understand.
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Elizabeth
On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:51 PM, Barbara Byers <babmay11@...> wrote:
No, you do not have to necessarily mark messages as spam to have them go into a spam folder.? It can be unintentional.? Some of my legitimate messages have gone into the spam folder, which I have not "marked" and didn't know they were in there until I checked it days later.? And the messages might accidentally get deleted if someone is doing a mass delete of their spam folder.? So unsubscribing isn't always right.
I wonder if this could be made a choice by the owner somehow.? It seems like it's pretty divided on how people would like it handled.
