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Vince,

I have visited this group and marked my subscription for "No Mail",
but the emails keep coming in.

If you're still having this problem, check the bottom of the footer of one of the messages. That will show the subscribed email address next to the Unsubscribe link. You may have more than one subscription to the group in question, and haven't turned off the active one.

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Keith,

Today I got a message that a post needed to be approved. When I went
to approve, all the choices were blocked (the little red circle with
the slash through it appeared in each block.

Hopefully you've resolved this by now.

In the Pending list you must put a checkmark by one or more pending messages before you can take any action on them. Trips me up all the time, it is why I almost always open the messages rather than approved directly from the list.

Shal


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Jim,

But some...like perhaps 15-20 (I'm not counting) have contacted me and
said they sent email notices to get a digest, but that they're still
getting every single message.

For the command to take effect they must receive and respond to a confirmation email from Groups.io. That was also true of Yahoo Groups, but still it trips people up.

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If the DOWNLOAD button is not going to download anything, then it should offer the user a dialog box to follow rather than assuming they can figure out what to do next.? Most of my members are in their 80's and don't share all the current "high-tech" lingo or intuitivity but still might want to save a pic.
Just saying...
Chuck

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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 06:19 PM, Epicatt2 wrote:

No Bruce. I'm using a Macbook Pro with OS 10.11 plus Safari.

As I mentioned I figured out that those 'missing' formatting function buttons don't display because we have our group set to text only. And I see that this extends to the Wiki Page formatting, too.

Your own preferences for your own account don't affect the group settings.

Just change (at least for testing purposes ) in your Account (your name, top right corner). Website Preferences.
This is just a change for your account. You can try to see if you can do what you want and then change it back!?
Will only affect you.

I just tried. Made some text red, chose fonts, etc.
Then changed it back in my own preferences to plain text. It stuck. I can still see the nice formatting!

BTW, I am using a MacBook Pro too, 13 inch - OS 10.15.2
Safari - Version 13.0.4?

Frances
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Paul M.,

Apparently my group's message formatting choice of 'text only' DOES
affect the Wiki Editor.

Not reproduced in my test group.

Changing your Editor Preference on the Preferences page of your Account /will/ affect the creation of new Wiki pages (sets the format of that page).

Clicking on the hamburger menu to show advanced formattng in the Wiki
Editor for a Home page I created shows a second line of formatting but
that line is missing the dropdowns for font, points (size), and for
text color, and highlighting (background color).

I think this may relate to screen width, as Bruce suggested.

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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 08:58 AM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

Are you trying to do this on mobile? Those icons will disappear if the screen
width is too narrow.

No Bruce. I'm using a Macbook Pro with OS 10.11 plus Safari.

As I mentioned I figured out that those 'missing' formatting function buttons don't display because we have our group set to text only. And I see that this extends to the Wiki Page formatting, too.

Now that I know this I can live with it.

And once again, thanx for all the good advice, Bruce. I learned a lot.

Cheers!

Paul M.
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 05:34 PM, Jonathan Sivier wrote:

It would be interesting to know how Yahoo did this. That was one thing that worked very well.

It was probably done by forcing the mime type, which frankly isn't that reliable, either.

The behavior on sending a binary data stream depends on file type, in association with client-side configuration/add-ons. For example, if I click on a PDF file from the Files area, it also opens in my browser; and we recently had a thread here about the CSV file being displayed instead of opening a download dialog box when you export your member list.

However, this should probably be revisited. HTML5 introduced the "download" attribute for the <A> tag in 2015, and I suspect most browsers are now supporting it.?

Ref:?

Bruce

It would be interesting to know how Yahoo did this. That was one thing that worked very well. Clicking on the little download icon on a thumbnail image would bring up the file saving dialog. It took very little effort to save photos from the web site.

Jonathan

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 03:36 PM, Charles Roberts wrote:

is this the way saving a pic is supposed to work here?? Anywhere else DOWNLOAD means DOWNLOAD.

Yes, that's the way it works here.? At one time, it was changed to attempt to actually download a photo, but it broke most (all?) of the browsers that use the Firefox base, so was reverted to this version.

Duane
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On my Mac, I can download the photo (save image to downloads or somewhere else. / some other folder) Or add image to Photos. Or copy the address or the image. Or share.

But usually I want to put the photo in my Photos application.

Frances

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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 12:16 PM, June Genis wrote:

How does someone find and join a group which is currently listed as Private?

It depends on what you mean by Private.? If you mean "private messages", no one but members can read the messages, but can find it in the site Directory, /search.? If you mean "Group not listed in directory", then no one can find it in the site Directory, so you'd have to use one of the methods Bruce mentioned.

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Just a very quick message to wish all a Happy New Year, but also an especially good 2020 to all those good people here who spend their time and expertise in helping the rest of us. Many thanks!

Sandy

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 01:16 PM, June Genis wrote:

How does someone find and join a group which is currently listed as Private?

June -- It's really pretty much the same for any group; the only thing the Private setting does is keep your group from showing up in the groups.io directory/search engine of available groups.

Four options:

1. Go to?/g/GROUPNAME?and click the "Join This Group" button
2. Send an email of any kind to [email protected]
3. Respond to an invitation sent by you (/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Inviting-new-members)
4. If your group is on the Premium payment plan, you can Direct Add people (/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Direct-Add-Members)

Regards,
Bruce

How does someone find and join a group which is currently listed as Private?? I have just set up a test group and need a few people to join for testing.? Do I need to send invites to all those I want to join for now?

June

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 12:09 PM, Steve M wrote:

The work-round, as also mentioned by Bruce is to approve on the website, so I shall use that in future.

Added to the wiki!
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