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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 09:46 AM, Martin Ridout wrote:

do I need to instigate the transfer process again or will it be picked up in due course?

I'd check the status page first.? If it shows nothing going on, I'd give the Go Ahead again.? I suspect this is what you'll need to do.

Duane
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Hi friends,

Actually, hitting the button "cancel event" doesn't have any effect.? The item remains, and no notifications are sent out.? Is my only option to delete the event from the calendar?

I instigated a transfer from Yahoo, had made '[email protected]' a moderator, and had clicked on 'Go ahead to transfer' just before the process was suspended. Nothing has happened since then.
Now than transfers are possible again, do I need to instigate the transfer process again or will it be picked up in due course?
Martin

I have a member who posted this:

Not sure what the problem is but when I try to reply to messages lately
I get the undeliverable message. Anybody else having this problem?

For 20 years she's used a hotmail address
And ever since we moved here, no one but she has had a problem.
She's not bouncing, her membership looks good, she can post a new message.

Any helps?

Hi Bob,

thanks for the update. I'll work through your steps so I can fully understand your process.? I started by exporting the beta table to a CSV. What happens there is that the single address field on the database gets split out into its sub-fields (address line 1, 2, City, Zip etc.) with a column for each.

I think your proposed improvements list looks good and if implemented would add some really useful features.? I would probably like to see a summary of a Google seach for a location at one side of the map. This frequently shows pictures and for places like cafes & restaurants (which is what my table will contain) opening hours and also a link for directions.

Regards
Andy

Ilene,

I own 6 IO Groups ... 1 group, none of my mail seems to be going to
the group.

Look in the group's Activity Log to see if there's an item there corresponding to your attempted posts.

My profile shows that there isn't any mail history.

That confirms that the messages haven't posted to the list.

Please let me know what could be causing this.

There are several possibilities:

o Posted to the wrong address (e.e. spelling error in the address you sent to).

o Rejected by your group.

o Still in your group's pending message queue (needs to be approved).

Shal


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Ok, one can right click on the list of topics, copy the link address.

You end up with a link address:
/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/permalink_to_topic/29189544?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,50,2,0,29189544

Yuck.

But can edit it down to this:
/g/GroupManagersForum/topic//29189544

Convoluted.? Needs a "button"!

Frank,

But I'm concerned spammers will just create (huge numbers of) dummy
email addresses in an attempt to post.

Unless you set your group to allow non-subscribers to post the first hurdle for spammer would be joining your group. The bulk spammers won't bother, in my experience it is pretty rare to find one who will go to that trouble. Even on a large group with unrestricted membership.

If you do allow non-subscribers to post those messages are always put in the moderation queue, so at worst you'd have to reject them when they happen. I've a couple of groups set this way, the larger one has picked up a recurring spammer trying to sell a related service but so far that comes in only once or twice week, so no big deal to delete from the pending queue.

I'm about to create a discussion list (receive-only emails) for our
user group. I can set the moderation level to N approved posts before
a member can post unmoderated.

That's also a good way to thwart spammers, those few who bother to join your group.

Shal


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We use a form on our web pages that allows people to request a subscription to our list. You can get the code from the Promote page under the Admin features. I don't think it has any specific security features built in, but we haven't seen any attempts to join programmatically. The code displays a window where people can enter their email address and a button they need to press to request to join the list. Of course, they then have to be approved by a moderator. We had a similar device for our Yahoo list before we moved to Groups.io. We never had any problems with that either.

Jonathan

On 1/17/2019 2:35 PM, Frank Greco wrote:

Hi Jonathan,
Before our group instituted a Captcha V2 on our WP website, we got hundreds of email addresses per week in our database that were obviously programmatically generated.
It was a major headache for us to regularly purge our DB.? Just wanted to know if Groups had any anti-spammer procedures to offset that.
An auto-purge after N days would be fairly easy to implement I would guess.
Frank

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KISS.? i'm just looking to create the link, regarless what I am doing with it.

Good trick to right-click, I hadn't thought of that.?
But of course, if it's the initial post there is no "show all" button to copy the address.? Say, post an important msg I want to paste in another forum immediately, and make sure they end up at the topic, not the first post.

There is a way to go to the 1st msg and then back to topics and yada?yada and end up with a browser url?such as your way:
/g/groupname/topic/topicname/29188727? <-- topic number

But I was looking for something do it quickly (and shorter) at the 1st posting:
/g/groupname/topic/29188727

-k

Is your group unrestricted?? that type typically has issues since looneys can join at will
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 03:44 PM, Ken Kloeber wrote:

But is there an EASY way (a/k/a button) to create a link to the entire topic??

Or is this a BETA suggestion?

It depends on what you mean by "creating a link."?Assuming you want something you can paste into a message, copying a string (like a URL) to the clipboard with a mouse click is possible, but it requires javascript to be enabled and may not work at all with some older browsers (pre-2016, it required Flash to be installed). Having said that,?I'm sure Mark is more up-to-date on such stuff than I am...sounds like a beta suggestion to me.

If there is more than one message, I right-click on the "View All xx Messages in Topic" link below the message I'm reading and select "Copy Link Address" from the resulting browser popup. Not too terribly inconvenient.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
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I can create a permalink?to a topic (to assure that the linker? Linkette? Linkestress? sees the entire thread instead of one message.?
But is there an EASY way (a/k/a button) to create a link to the entire topic??

Or is this a BETA suggestion?

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 02:47 PM, Frank Greco wrote:

I'm just concerned I'll be spending an hour once a week purging spammer submissions.? ?I already do this with our WP website and its just a pain with hundreds of them.

In the year that I've been involved with groups.io, I don't recall seeing any inquiries along these lines in GMF. Your mileage may vary, void where prohibited, objects in mirror may be closer than they appear.

Can we have some sort of delayed purge, that is, if a user is not approved after NN days, its auto-purged?

Pending subscriptions older than two weeks are automatically deleted (ref:?). Those in Pending and Not Confirmed status are also conveniently displayed on a separate, "Pending Approval" page in the member's list so they can be deleted earlier if desired.

Regards,
Bruce
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Andy,
I just finished playing around with an exported/imported copy of the Beta Mapping Database.
I found it very easy to manipulate.

1. I exported/imported it as json so that I had a working copy.
2. I modified my small sample .csv file's header row to match the Database's field names
3. I Upload(ed) the rows in my sample csv file too the database to see what happened and they not only came in but the addresses all worked correctly.
4. I then modified the name of one field in both my sample csv file and the database, deleted all but 1 row at the database and reuploaded my sample csv file and checked the result and it was fine.
5. I finally modified all of the fields I needed to, changing the field type (didn't mess w/address: fields) in both the database and my sample csv file
6. Deleted all but on row in the database.
7. Uploaded my sample csv file to the database.

All of the above worked perfectly.? I've also added fields and changed field types to get what I want.
The? only issues I have are some proposed improvements I've asked for at

Like, resequencing the IDs, having more edit/viewing restriction options and accessing Google Maps Directions
I've got a Specialist's database of over 500 MDs just itching to get uploaded.
This is the easiest path to Google Maps I've ever found

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I own 6 IO Groups All my mail to 5 of the groups are being received to the group. 1 group, none of my mail seems to be going to the group. I wonder why? I believe all my settings are correct - the same as in the other groups. ? Please let me know what could be causing this. My profile shows that there isn't any mail history. Ilene