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Re: Can a Topic be Muted?
Hi I just sent a message about muting and following.?I discovered where I can see what is muted and followed by clicking on Duane's link. You must select Manage Subscriptions from Your Groups (in the blue banner). It is nice to have an overview, but I would like to be able to see this information in the specific group. Or at least some link to suggest this view of my subscriptions. Frances |
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Re: Can a Topic be Muted?
Duane, where do I mute a topic?? I know that I can "follow" from my email - it brings me to a confirmation page on the group website. I did see a Muted in the menu on the left when I started to look at this but it has disappeared now.? Can you try it yourself and then give me specific instructions?? And I can't see the list of threads I follow. But I know that I do that from email and then I see the list. Frances |
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Re: Can a Topic be Muted?
Mute is only for you, not the group. You can Mute (or Follow) a topic from your overview (/topics), once you're looking at the topic, at the top of the page. Locking is best if you don't want that thread used again. If it's getting 'rough', you could use Moderate Topic. Remember that in either case, someone can easily start a new Topic with the same subject matter.
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Re: Trouble navigating to polls?
Not sure if this helps but there is a button in the messages view selector. Just discovered this earlier this week. ?Odd place(?) for it to be but it is there. When you click it goes to a page that contains all the polls: A link could be posted in the wiki. -- ?Archivist |
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Re: Can two Yahoo Groups be merged into one Groups.io group
Just FYI if others reference this thread in the future...here is the reply from Mark... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Jim, Yes, we can combine the two groups for you. It shouldn't be an issue. Just go through the easy transfer process for each group. Cheers, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After I've combined the two groups I'll make one last post here. -Jim Coffee |
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Re: member got unsubbed
groups2manage
My co owner who uses AOL and had it happened to her (she said sheMy understanding is that it is not so much a glitch, but a very bad design decision. AOL (like most services) does automatic spam filtering to put some messages into a user's Spam folder rather that their Inbox whenever that filter judges the message to be spam. That much is ok. What's not ok is that if a group message happens to be delivered to the Spam folder, and the user doesn't pro-actively reach in and mark it not-spam, then eventually the message gets deleted automatically, and at that event AOL sends a spam report to Groups.io, causing the unsubscription. In my opinion, while it is excusable that a spam filter might mistake a group message for spam it is NOT excusable that such a mistake would cause the service to send a spam report to the list service. Only an explicit choice by the user should ever cause such a report to be sent. I think AOL doesn't use the modern security standards most newerI don't think this relates to security. It is just a bad user experience caused by a bad design decision. Shal |
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Re: How do I have completely my own footer?
John,
It may be mail reader dependent. My constituent group will be mostlyA system footer is sent out in every message delivered by email. Also a group-specific footer if one has been set in the group's settings. Neither are shown when you look at messages from the group's web pages. So for your email-receiving members, one format or the other (plain-text or HTML) of footer should be visible in every message via the group, regardless of what email interface the member uses. The one exception I'm aware of is if the message is sent as HTML formatted, but the user's email interface displays the plain-text content of the message. In that case no footer appears (and I'd argue that's a bug). Shal |
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Re: How do I have completely my own footer?
John,
In messages with HTML formatting the footer is somewhat more tidy, showing simple words and phrases rather than the whole URLs.
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Re: I have a lot of questions
Hi Nicole!
Here's my first question: if you want to have more than one group butYes. In Groups.io each account is tied to exactly one email address. If you have more than one email address, those accounts will be treated as if they are separate individuals. There was talk, some time ago, in beta@ about implementing a mechanism to allow a single Groups.io account to manage multiple email addresses. That hasn't been done yet, but it has made it to the "To Do" list: I don't know how high in priority it might be. 2nd question: how do I change addys in groups.io <>?Basically the same answer as the first question: Groups.io does not yet have a feature to manage multiple email addresses from the same login. Third, why does it keep saying I'm bouncing when I'm not.I don't know, I haven't experienced that. It may be tied up with what transpired below, but that doesn't really make sense to me. In view of the first answer, things will seem confusing if you aren't careful to distinguish you (logged in with one address) from that other you (who logged in with another address). When you're logged in to Groups.io you can hover over your name (in the upper right hand corner) and it will pop up the address you logged in with. Could this be my fault- I messed up the other day and somehow lostI'm not sure I followed all of that action. But it is probably tied up somehow in the fact that each email address (including typos of an email address) appears to Groups.io as a separate individual user. I have been, and several other people have reported being, very confused by accidentally making a typo in your email address when attempting to log in. "Poof" - it seems like all of your groups are gone, and you're asked to confirm again and ... yeah. That's because you (with a typo) aren't you. The system tries tries so hard to streamline the process of setting up a new account that it "streamlines" you into confusion when that's not what you were trying to do. Fourth question: I left out one letter of my addy so now I have noIf I've got the picture right, no, you didn't. It is just that your typo doppelganger doesn't have any groups. Is there any way to get them back or do I have to start all overIt should be as simple as logging out of that typo account, and then logging in again with your email address spelled correctly. The account with the typo'd address could never have been confirmed, so it could never actually get to the point of receiving group messages - only a confirmed address can do that. The typo address may show up in the Members list for groups you attempted to join while logged in with the typo - but those subscriptions will be marked "NC" in those groups. That means "Not Confirmed" - an email address that hasn't been confirmed does not receive group messages. Shal |
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Re: Hotmail spam problem - same as aol...?
Hi Ginny,
Has/is anyone else having this problem with Hotmail?We've had a Hotmail user removed from GMF back in September, and by coincidence just today a Yahoo Mail user. So it isn't AOL alone. I'm presuming the gmail work-around is applicable again, but it's notIn theory the "work-around" is "don't do that" - that is, don't mark group messages as spam. But from others' experience it is more than that. For AOL (at least) a member must pro-actively review their spam folder and mark as "not-spam" any group message that arrives there. Otherwise those messages lurking in the spam folder are ticking time-bombs that will cause unsubscription when the message is auto-deleted from the spam folder. That behavior on AOL's part (and possibly Hotmail's and Yahoo Mails') is shocking to me. I don't think they should send these Spam reports unless the user him/herself specifically marked the message as spam. Looking in GMF's Activity log, in the Member Activity list, there's an Action filter for "removed because of spam report". That's handy for seeing these incidents. I notice there are two types of log entry: in some cases it shows you (and links to) the message number that was "spammed". I'm presuming that's when the message was from your group, and the ones without a message number are when the message that caused the removal was from another group. Shal GMF Owner |
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Re: Delete Group Before Approval Causes Namespace Problem
John,
I added a group called "Clear-Ridge-Water" and then in confusionI think an email to [email protected] would be your best (only) option. Explain what happened and they (Mark) can likely free the name up for you. If I recall correctly there isn't currently a time-out period after which used group names become available once more. Shal |
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Delete Group Before Approval Causes Namespace Problem
I added a group called "Clear-Ridge-Water" and then in confusion deleted it before it was approved. ?Since then I have not been able to add it again, as it says name is in use. ?It of course does not show up in my group menu. ? ?Any ideas on how to "unfreeze" the name? |
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Re: How do I have completely my own footer?
Right, I did include the footer via cut and paste, but it doesn't show in this reader. ?It may be mail reader dependent. ?My constituent group will be mostly reading mail and not discussion groups, so it's hard to say how it will all be to them. Thanks, John |
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