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Re: Subscribers v.s. Members

 

There certainly are two types of 'belonging' to Groups.io that do exist.

1) There are those people who 'belong' and do not have a Password (they may not understand or wish to have or use one - which is OK) but there are certain things they can not do in Groups.io

2) There are other people who 'belong' and do have a Password, and therefore can do those certain things that require a Password in Groups.io

Clearly "Subscriber" and "Member" have not been carefully used to distinguish between these two types. I stated what seemed to me to be the appropriate differentiation of what those terms could and should mean.

So that there is no confusion as to who is able to do what in Groups.io, my question was and is:
What are the unambiguous, official Groups.io terms for these two types of 'belonging¡¯?

I think it would be better to have clearly defined terms, than to have to say ¡®except if you do not have a Password¡¯, ¡®if you have a Password¡¯, or other such cumbersome phrases.

On Jun 25, 2018, at 6:47 PM, Jim Higgins <HigginsJ@...> wrote:

Received from Michael Pavan at 6/25/2018 08:03 PM UTC:

Members and Subscribers is synonymous.

I think of and understand:

Subscribers: as people who have a subscribed email address, but do not have a Password, and can only receive and send messages to a Groups.io group.

Members: as Subscribers who do have a Password, and can access the Groups.io group website to access all available features.

If those aren't the correct names to refer to these two distinct levels of Groups.io participation, what are?

There are no distinct levels of member/subscribership. Those two labels - member/subscriber - are synonymous. The "levels," if one chooses to think of it that way, are Owner, Moderator, member/subscriber... in that order. Moderators have additional privileges/authority/responsibility as granted by the Owner from a limited list of additional privileges/authorities/responsibilities.

Jim H
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