We used to be on yahoogroups.com but recently switched to groups.io.? I used to have our yahoogroups address in my contacts to easily write emails to the group without having to go into the group account page and post a message.? I have tried doing this with our groups.io address but the emails keep bouncing back "permanent error."??

Do I have to enter our groups account page in order to post a message, or is there a trick to using our groups.io address to send a message without actually entering our group page?

On 14/01/2020 14:07, Frances wrote:

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 04:36 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:

I'm not sure if it is possible to set a topic as moderated, but if
you can do that, you could do that, to prevent further "replies" to
that mistaken message from being automatically posted.

Yes, you can use the More menu to set a topic as moderated. You must be an owner or moderator.

Thanks. I searched the official help pages and the GMF wiki before I pressed SEND but could not find the information. Do you happen to know (off the top of your head) where this information is written (if any)?

Samuel

So, in doing some housecleaning, I changed the delivery option of several of the groups that I am a non-moderator member of to Plain Digest from Individual Emails. One group, though, did not have the option for Plain Digest available on its menu. I chose Full Featured Digest, and now that I have received one, I don't care for it. Which leads to two questions.
1. Is there a way I, as a subscriber, force the option of Plain DIgest? If yes, how? If not, why is it allowed that a group owner can limit how I look at the messages?

2. As owner of another group, I looked everywhere and I don't see how that limitation was even put on. What am I missing?

Dave

Item 13 says:
13.? You can use the X in the upper right corner of any Column section if you want to delete it.? You’ll notice that there are also up and down arrows on the Column title bar.? You can use these to rearrange the Columns in the database.? This will come in handy when you add more Columns and want to change the order that they’re displayed.

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This will help reposition the order of the columns. But I want to move a row up or down. I think the yahoo groups database had that functionality.

Got it, thank you! ?My messages did go through when I re-sent them later.

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 08:33 AM, angelsonsAna wrote:

Hello there, I am an owner of a group and for some reason I am not able to get in to the group, so I wonder if I should unsubtle, and then get back in again, Any help would be welcomed thank you so much

Likely you are trying to logon with the wrong email.?

look at the email footer to see which email address is registered with Groups.io

Frances
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Don’t unsubscribe! Wait for others to advise. You will almost certainly lose the group access!

Renaming before deleting would be wise to just hit multiple random letters on the keyboard more than 12 characters.? This way, even a acronym for someone else could still be used as a group.

example,?

sazdlkfgzvxocuhazxcjvn??

Try not to use a phrase like Granma-pie-lovers.? Why?? Someone may start a group with old proven family recipes to share with their members.? :)? Yahoo had a bunch of these in the homemaking section.

Hello there, I am an owner of a group and for some reason I am not able to get in to the group, so I wonder if I should unsubtle, and then get back in again, Any help would be welcomed thank you so much.

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 04:36 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:

I'm not sure if it is possible to set a topic as moderated, but if you can do that, you could do that, to prevent further "replies" to that mistaken message from being automatically posted.

Yes, you can use the More menu to set a topic as moderated. You must be an owner or moderator.

Frances
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On 14/01/2020 08:07, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:

One of my new groups is getting tons of "Re: reply to subscribe" messages. But they are not subbed! If I approve the message, it
seems to appear as a message. :( However, some seem properly subbed,
as I can click on their email and see that.

I joined your group temporarily (membership is unrestricted), and here's what I think happened.

One person sent a message to the group with the subject line "reply to subscribe" (which he intended to mean "here is my reply in order to subscribe"), but other list members saw the message and thought that it was an instruction (i.e. "reply to this e-mail if you want to confirm that you want to subscribe), and now many members are replying to that original message.

The original sender of the "reply to subscribe" message did not realise that he needs to press REPLY in his mail program in order to confirm his subscription, so he did what some e-mail users nowadays do: he created a *new* e-mail and addressed it to what he considered the originator of the mail that he's "replying" to.

Or, perhaps he clicked a "Reply to group" link at the bottom of one of the group's other mails, which would result in something similar (although he would have needed to edit the subject line).

I'm not sure if it is possible to set a topic as moderated, but if you can do that, you could do that, to prevent further "replies" to that mistaken message from being automatically posted.

Samuel

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 07:22 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:

If I approve the message, it seems to appear as a message.

I am not entirely sure about the sequence you are trying to describe, but as your group appears to have a "UK" involvement are the messages in question coming from people with btinternet.com email addresses?

Chris

On 14/01/2020 01:39, Events events wrote:

I would like to add an unsubscribe link to my welcome message simlar to the unsubscribe link in the direct add message.

In the Welcome Message member notice that GIO generated for my group, it already contains unsubscribe instructions near the bottom of the message:

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If you do not wish to belong to this group,
you may unsubscribe by sending an email to:
[email protected]
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You can select the e-mail address, click the "chain" icon, and then add a URL, which for e-mail is "mailto:" followed directly by the address. See screenshot attached.

Samuel

But they are not subbed! If I approve the message, it seems to appear as a message. :(

However, some seem properly subbed, as I can click on their email and see that.

The group is?

Valorie

Bruce,
Your last answer was just what I was looking for, This platform has so many capabilities!
Thank you so much.
Bill

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:13 PM, Bill Hazel wrote:

Is there any way to see ALL the edits to a group's wiki?

Bill -- Yes. On any wiki page, click the "xx revisions" link at upper right (where "xx" is the number of revisions). This will return a page of links to all the revisions of that page.

Currently I can only figure out how to see the edits to whatever page I'm looking at so I have no idea what content is being added.

If you select any two checkboxes on the revisions page and click the "Compare Revisions" button, this will display the differences...kinda. It doesn't always work perfectly.

As a group owner it would seem that I could be in danger legally if a member added or edited pages that contained illegal content.

There is no system in place to send you a notification when a page is edited, short of monitoring the Activity Log. If you are truly concerned about this you can always restrict all wiki revisions to Moderators/Owners (Admin>Settings>Features>Wiki>Permissions) or instead at the page level at the time of creation (click the "only Moderators can edit this page" checkbox).?

It would also be nice to be able to see if the wiki was being used as they are designed, as a community knowledge sharing platform.
Is anyone else contributing? Are they doing a "good" job or could they use a little training?

Again, the Activity Log will tell you if someone is contributing (look for entries saying "updated wiki page"). As for whether they are doing a good job, you will have to keep tabs on this yourself and apply your own criteria.?There is no software solution to that (too bad, Wikipedia could really benefit from something like that).

Regards,
Bruce

Is there any way to see ALL the edits to a group's wiki?
Currently I can only figure out how to see the edits to whatever page I'm looking at so I have no idea what content is being added.
As a group owner it would seem that I could be in danger legally if a member added or edited pages that contained illegal content.
It would also be nice to be able to see if the wiki was being used as they are designed, as a community knowledge sharing platform.
Is anyone else contributing? Are they doing a "good" job or could they use a little training?

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Paul,

>>> I tried to use?[email protected]?but this requires the member to log in or create a login if they don’t have one.

I think you may had been intending to post the URL link there, not the email address; anyone on the planet with an email address can send email to [email protected]***, it does not require that person to have a specific group membership or even a groups.io account, so you are fine using this unsub email address in any message/notice your group sends out.
(*** obviously you'll get back different responses depending on whether you are a member or not but that's besides the point)

>>> I would like to add an unsubscribe link to my welcome message similar to the unsubscribe link in the direct add message. If a person new to groups.io wants to unsubscribe, they don’t want to have to create a login.

Since I take it you mean it's the group welcome message/notice you are working with, then anyone receiving/reading it on the other end are already members by the time they get that email, so they already have a GIO login/account, so no worries there, all they have to do is send email to the unsubscribe address, or do it through the online interface if they prefer, and you can safely include both unsubscribing email address and group web link.

>>> How can I do this.

Here's the "boiler plate" text I use in the group welcome messages in the groups I admin regarding unsubscribing, always ensuring it's at the top area, so it's visible right away pretty-much, and I also always list the email unsub method first:

Greetings and Welcome to XYZ, a discussion group for ... (a one or two liner explaining what the group is about)

You are receiving this message because your membership in our group was just approved.? If you accidentally joined this group, or were accidentally added to this group, and/or you do not wish to belong to this group anymore, you may unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] or if using the Groups.io online interface, by going to our group's Subscription page (/g/XYZ/editsub) and clicking Unsubscribe at the bottom of the page. (Please note if you use the online method, if you never visited Groups.io before and have not yet created your account password, select "Email me a link to login" when presented with the Groups.io Login screen)

... (rest of stuff like rules, how-to, etc, follow)

Cheers,

Christos

Don't forget the search box at the top of the wiki pages. ?Simple searches work best.

There is the table of contents too!

Frances
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