Marina,

I'd like to have just one reminder sent to the group. But all I get
are two different messages: one with the actual reminder (hashtag
#cal-reminder) and, on the deadline date, a second message with the
same reminder (hashtag #cal-notice).

This happens even if I don't check the options Send Invite to Group
and Sent Notice when Event happens.
Is there a way to have just one reminder sent to the group?

Unchecking "Send Notice when Event happens" should have prevented the second, #cal-notice, from being sent. Works for me anyway.

Though there have been some bugs reported involving updates (edits) to repeating events, so maybe this is something to have [email protected] take a look at for you.

Shal


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Stan,

If I made all members of the subgroup, they would be getting emails of
topics they don't want to see, unless they modify their profile to
nomail in the subgroup, but then that becomes more complicated to
them.

In the subgroup's Settings page you could alter the Default Sub Settings to make their default Email Delivery be No Email (or Special Notices Only). Or Daily Summary might be appropriate.

Or, leave it at Individual Messages and use Message Selection instead.

Following Only plus Auto Follow Replies would mean they'd get email replies to any posts or replies they make in the subgroup. Which may pleasantly surprise (or just confuse).

Shal


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Pamela,

Now when a new member accepts the invitation and joins the group, a
Welcome letter is automatically sent to them with the old, wrong group
name and hence, wrong email address.
I can see no where to fix this or to even stop the sending of this
particular email.

It is one of the Member Notices. Go to the Settings page of your group and click the button of that name. That should bring up a list with at least that one message listed. Probably only that one initially.

Click on its name to open and edit it. When finished click on the blue Update Notice button at the bottom.

Or you could stop it from being sent by unchecking the "Active Message" box.

You probably want to explore the other types of Member Notices that are available to you.
/static/help#membernotices

Shal


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Margaret,

I am on a laptop running Windows XP. I assume the trash can is
alongside the notebook and pencil symbol (Edit?) and a pair of
scissors Move/Cut?)?

Yes. Each of those icons should have a hover text if you hover the cursor over them - Edit (pad and pencil), Move (scissors), Delete (trashcan) and Report File (flag).

If you hover in the blanks space to the right of the scissors (about as far as the distance from the pad and pencil to the scissors) does the hover text for Delete show up? And if you click in that empty space do you get the delete confirmation pop-up?

I'm just wondering if the functions aren't available to you, or if it is just the icons that are missing from your display. Kind of a long shot, but I otherwise don't see why you'd be allowed to Move but not Delete - and everyone should see the Report File flag.

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Bryan,

However, now that I go into the group, there are no messages starting
in June of 2013. Any idea what happened? Is this something that I can
request to be put back into the queue for?

I don't know what might have happened, but if those messages are on the Y!Group but not on the Groups.io group I'd write to [email protected] to see if there's anything to be done about it.

Shal


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Margaret,
Are you running Windows?? You might try Ctrl and the minus/hyphen symbol.? This should reduce the size of the window contents so you can see the entire window.? I find that recent website design often neglects to scale windows properly to the size of screen or browser window that the content is being viewed with.? Consequently edges of pages get cut off without the user having any idea they aren't seeing the whole page.?

Ctrl + and Ctrl - are useful to enlarge or reduce the font size or other elements on a webpage.? If it works properly, the text is re-flowed (if that's the right term) and the other page elements are adjusted to accommodate it.?

Similarly, is the window you are viewing with maximized to your screen size?? In a similar situation, I couldn't find a button on an app until I maximized the window, even though the window I was using was only pixels smaller that the maximized view.? Some of these things depend on the device you are using, I think.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks, Shal.

With regard to the below....

On 2/27/2018 7:18 PM, Shal Farley wrote:

Stan,

and to be able to read and post in the subgroup without having to join
the subgroup.

Wait... If they can both read and post in the subgroup, why not just
make them members of the subgroup?

I hadn't thought this through thoroughly enough when I made the comment. I am setting up these subgroups because some members do not like to get inundated with a huge amount of messages on a particular subject. If I made all members of the subgroup, they would be getting emails of topics they don't want to see, unless they modify their profile to nomail in the subgroup, but then that becomes more complicated to them.
Stan

Thanks Shal, Francis, and Duane for responses to my Privacy and Non-Subscribers questions.
Stan

Stan,

In a subgroup setting, there is a choice to let non subscribers post.

In primary groups too, by the way.

The description of this setting says 'Posts by non-subscribers will be
moderated, instead of rejected.' Does this mean that all posts from
members of the main group will be moderated?

Yes. And posts from the public as well (non-members of the primary group).

Can I set them to be not moderated after their first post?

Not when they are posting as non-members of the subgroup.

Ideally, I would like members of the main group (who have passed the
main group criteria to not be moderated) to not be moderated, even
initially, when they post in the subgroup,

I'd like that too. I hadn't thought of tying it to their moderation in the primary group, but that probably makes sense.

and to be able to read and post in the subgroup without having to join
the subgroup.

Wait... If they can both read and post in the subgroup, why not just make them members of the subgroup?

Shal


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I just started a new private group. When there were no members of the group but me, I changed the group's name.?
Now when a new member accepts the invitation and joins the group, a Welcome letter is automatically sent to them with the old, wrong group name and hence, wrong email address.
I can see no where to fix this or to even stop the sending of this particular email.?
Anyone able to help with this?
This is not the Invitation email where you can edit it under Admin\Setting\Invitation. The one I'm talking about is this one:

Hello,

Welcome to the?@groups.io?group at Groups.io, a free, easy-to-use email group service. Please take a moment to review this message.

To learn more about the?@groups.io?group, please visit?/g/

To start sending messages to members of this group, simply send email to?@groups.io

If you do not wish to belong to?@groups.io, you may unsubscribe by sending an email to?[email protected]

To see and modify all of your groups, go to?

Regards,

The?@groups.io?Moderator


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Victoria,

In beta you wrote:

Thats why I liked the recurring mail tool in YG where small
instuctions how to handle this or that could regularly be sent,

The guidelines are a single document, and the other information we
regularly sent are quite long ones. In our group they are necessary
though. I have a solution already, ?ll create a new moderators adress
and will send those scripts monthly, but each at a different time.

There is nothing in Groups.io that closely matches Yahoo Group's scheduled files. What I use is Calendar events. The Description field for the event can be formatted just like a message posting; but there's a little bit of added boilerplate above it and an automatic hashtag in the subject line.

See:
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/3749 and
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/4264

Shal


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In a group that you own, go to Admin > Promote to find information on adding to your web site.

Duane
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There's no context here so let me copy and paste. This is in response to a message Victoria originally posted in beta, which reads:

... I liked the recurring mail tool in YG where small instuctions how to handle this or that could regularly be sent,

I explained to Victoria could use the Group Guidelines for that purpose. She responded

Not really J... The guidelines are a single document, and the other information we regularly sent are quite long ones. In our group they are necessary though. I have a solution already, ?ll create a new moderators adress and will send those scripts monthly, but each at a different time.

at which point I suggested she post about this in GMF instead of beta.

My suggestion is to use a wiki page and specify it as the "sticky wiki." You specify which wiki page is the current sticky wiki in the "sticky wiki" field on the settings page. The first several lines of the sticky wiki appears as a banner at the top of the message.

An alternative is to create a sticky message, to the same end.

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Stan,

I assume archives being private means non-members if the main group
cannot view the content of messages. The only thing non-members see is
a monthly table containing the number of posts for each day.

Whether it is a primary or subgroup, private archives means that only members see the message content. All others the table only.

I do not understand the significance of being listed in the Directory,
or not being listed, mostly because I do not know what the Directory
is.

What Frances said: /search

It's a list of those groups that chose to be listed. At the moment it isn't much more than that; that is, no categories or tags or other form of organization.

With respect to subgroups, I want members of the main group who are
not members of the subgroup to be able to view messages, but to hide
messages from non-members of the main group.

You want:
"Listed in parent group, archives viewable by parent group members"

However that choice is no longer available to this subgroup if you have previously chosen Private Archives for it.

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Two things for the new owner to try:

-- Refresh the page. If that doesn't work,
-- Log out and log back in.
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I have refreshed the page and logged out and logged back in again, but this did? not reveal the trash can against files - still only a notepad and pen symbol and a pair of scissors symbol. Might my settings have something to do with this omission?

Margaret P
UK

Hi Stan,

I have all but one of my groups to allow non-members to post. These are all unmoderated except for first post.

This allows someone to send an email to the group who isn’t a member - and I get to decide if it will be allowed or not.

Of course, if they wish to regularly post, they need to join.

And they don’t get a response, I am fairly sure. The transmission is only one way. They can post but they don’t see any replies.

Why do I have it set to this? I have a family group site of about 25 people but sometimes someone else wants to write something to the rest of us. Say, our Irish cousin. He can do that. I can moderate it and it will be sent on to the members of my group.

Or someone forgets and posts from another email address. (Of course they can edit their account to allow alternative addresses to be used, but they don’t necessarily do this.) In this case, they would see responses because they are a member, just sending from a non-registered email address.

I hope I haven’t confused you! The main thing - these are unmoderated groups but the occasional non-member might post and I approve it if appropriate.

I could also follow up with an invitation to join. Or a suggestion that they add that email address to their account.

Frances

Stan, if you go to:
/search

You can see all the public groups. I am a co-owner of a public group with private archive. You must be a member to read the posts. I also have a few private ones not listed in the directory since they are just for a specific group.

Frances

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