On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:27 am, Paul Konanz wrote:
Search the GMF archive; there are dozens of postings pro and con on this issue.
Paul; the most recent of those postings are gathered in the
Automatic Deletion of Members If Message Marked As Spam thread with a Poll attached further down the front page, assuming that you read this on the web UI rather than by email. It currently stands at 89 posts and may or may not
grow further.Out of that topic a fairly comprehensive wiki page has been written, and as whoever moderated your post said "
See the wiki page about it"; it may not be immediately obvious but the moderator put a link there for you, and it's in the pasted version here as well. While noting that it is still technically a "work in progress" I don't think there is much more that will be done with it; it is certainly comprehensive enough for you to paste into your own group's wiki. Once you have done that? I also suggest that you send out a post drawing your members' attention to it, and make that post "sticky" so that it remains in view on the group web UI. A suitable hashtag against it will also help; I use Group_Management.
IMHO important topics such as "members being deleted..." show up what I would regard as a major weakness in people relying on email access rather than the web UI. Emails are quite ephemeral; they come, they go and will often be forgotten about not much later, so an email containing important "Group Management" information gets forgotten along with the rest. Using the web UI means that "sticky topics" with a hashtag in an eye - grabbing colour will act as reminders every time someone accesses the group via the UI; that simply won't happen with email access.
Having said that I daresay that expecting people to use the web UI in the days of smart phones is simply expecting too much, sad to say... in my view it is much more useful.
Regards,
Chris
