On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 03:52 PM, CoProS Moderator wrote:

Just a simple “Note to Member”.?

I tried a couple of the others were tested as well. For some reason they are not being activated as well as listed.?

Peter -- Member Notices of type "Note to Member," "Invite" and "Direct Add" do not need to be activated. You select the one you want to go out at the time you send it. You can have multiple notices of the other types, too, but only one of each type can be made Active, so groups.io knows which one to send.

As for being listed, be sure you give each notice a unique Name. If you save a Member Notice under the same Name as an existing one it will be overwritten.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

Hi Chris

That ship has long sailed ;-)

There are plenty of ex Rootsweb list owners here already ;-)

Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)

Hi Bill,

Thanks so much for a really constructive reply - I'm about to look at GMFs Wiki to see if i can find a way to save your message (apart from copy / paste).

I'm a new List Admin exile from the Rootsweb Mailing List demise and I've been encouraging my fellow List Admins to make more use of it - I've found answers to most things I've wanted.
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Regards ... Susie Zada
from Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Thanks, Frances.

Yes, you can. The photo is part of Admin, Settings - a separate button. /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation#Cover-Photo-button3A

I've set all these, but the home page HTML still has:

<meta property="og:url"           content="/g/zoom-rxx" />
<meta property="og:type"          content="website" />
<meta property="og:title"         content="zoom-rxx groups.io Group" />
<meta property="og:description"   content="Discussion group for users ..." />
<meta property="og:image"         content="/img/logofull.png" />

As you can see, the og:image refers to the generic groups.io logo, not my group image.

I moved over here to groups.io because I was co-admin of a Lithuanian Genealogy list on Yahoo.? We're very happy with the move, and we migrated with very little in the way of problems.

It appears Rootsweb is twilighting their list service, as well.

Has anyone here successful migrated a non-Yahoo mailing here?? And in particular, Rootsweb??? The cutoff is in March, so I wouldn't be surprised to more requests in the coming weeks.

Hopefully, some of the Groups.io people will see this post.??

Hi Frances,

Just a simple “Note to Member”.?

I tried a couple of the others were tested as well. For some reason they are not being activated as well as listed.?

Thanks?

Peter

Tha seems to have fixed it. ?I think I am ready to go. ?Fingers crossed.

The user complaint follows:

Dan, when i receive messages from groups.io through my gorge.net account, the sender and subject do not appear as they do when i look at the groups.io server.? This is an issue with the way messages are shown on my account at the gorgenet server and also when they are forwarded by gorgenet to my outlook account on my computer.?

However, when messages are received from AWORKOFMARC, the sender and subject do appear.? What is different about his account?

Is there any fix for this.
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There are no differences in the member setup between the example AWORKOFMARC and other users- the all caps is different, though, in the user name.? Anyway, is there anything to be done about his missing senders and subject??? I? think Gorge.net came up in an earlier problem.

Dan

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 02:52 PM, Moderator SamiJo wrote:

Does the reject message (below) automatically go out when someone emails or posts directly on line in a group where all messages are moderated? Or is it something that we need to send out?

The subject of your message contained at least one hashtag that is restricted for use by moderators only.

Click on this link to edit your message subject and add appropriate tags:

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When I tested it the other day, I sent an email from a non-moderator e-mail address. The response was automated and that response arrived by email.

And in Activity, it says: ?joeblow@xxxx??sent message "test #howtoguide" with a tag that only moderators can use, has been asked to update subject via email.

Frances
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 02:41 PM, Johan Vromans wrote:

Maybe I'm overlooking something trivial...

Can we have og:image and og:description for group home pages?

Yes, you can. The photo is part of Admin, Settings - a separate button.
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation#Cover-Photo-button3A

For the description, it is editable in Settings. If you are listed in the public list of groups on Groups.io (you can be restricted and listed), be sure that keywords appear earlier in your description.
If you are set in your own subscription to allow full text, you can do fancy formatting, if you wish. (On group home, top right under your name.)

Perhaps there are other group settings you might wish to review!

/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation

Frances

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Does the reject message (below) automatically go out when someone emails or posts directly on line in a group where all messages are moderated? Or is it something that we need to send out?

Maybe I'm overlooking something trivial...

Can we have og:image and og:description for group home pages?

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:58 PM, John Pearce wrote:

Could that be added to the response page?

You'd need to suggest it on the , the official suggestion box for the site.? GMF is a user-to-user group that isn't monitored by GIO management.

Duane
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:26 PM, Doug Raymond wrote:

However you give a path forward for any individual original poster in my group: he can resubmit the attachment to me and I can relink it to his message as you say.

Actually, if the message is "linked" to a current member, as it should be if they use the same email address, they can edit and insert the link themselves after uploading the file.? (Mostly depends on the tech savvy of the members, so might be less work for you to do it yourself.)? Probably a good time to remove the attachment info contained in the message as well.

Duane
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Our group requires someone to tell us something about why they are interested in our group before we approve.? Member notices are active and edited appropriately and are sent to them explaining what we want to know, and to explain that they must reply to the email as this part of the process is automated.? However with the folks who request to join via the web days go by before people respond if at all.? Many just age out after 14 days.? I have a test ID that I use to subscribe and unsubscribe to see what happens as well as testing what users see with various email options.? I used that to subscribe via the web and the response page from groups.io does NOT mention that they should check their email as some groups require a response via email before they can join.? Could that be added to the response page?? It appears that many people don't use email much and rely on the web interface to read messages.? It might also be helpful to move them to a page where they could fill out their response immediately but at least a notice to check their email.

John

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 01:23 PM, CoProS Moderator wrote:

Thanks Samuel,

I was trying to make a new notice based on the existing list. For some reason it will not activate.?
Ive reported it to support.?

What type of notice are you trying to create?

Frances
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 01:26 PM, Events events wrote:

This member’s posting privileges are set as?Override: moderated. ?I was expecting to get an email at my moderator address asking if the post should go thru. ?I got no such message and the member got: ? Delivery status notification: Failure?
I had another test where the member’s posting prividges are set:?Use Group Moderation Setting ?and the Same sort of message arrived in their email

This must be where the issue lies.
My groups Spam settings are:
Restricted Membership: ?ON
Announcement Group: ?ON
Moderation: ALL MESSAGES MODERATED
New User Moderated ?ON

I thought this would give me the funtionality I wanted, but it’s not.
Functionality I want: all messages to require moderation except for people I marked as unmoderated. ?When a member marked as ?Group Moderation Setting ?attempts a post, I want the moderators to get an email and then any one of them can approve the post and it goes thru.

An Announcement group does not allow "normal" members to post, just owners / moderators.
Untick that if you want members to post to the group.

See Spam Control on this quick start guide -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation#Spam-Control--

Frances
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I am just beginning with Groups.io. ?Will be migrating a Yahoo Group ASAP.

The messages do show in the activities ;go. ?here’s one: ??
Member?Paul Spielman@DNE <PaulSpielman@...>?attempted to send message "Test from a moderated address" to an announcement group via email

This member’s posting privileges are set as?Override: moderated. ?I was expecting to get an email at my moderator address asking if the post should go thru. ?I got no such message and the member got: ? Delivery status notification: Failure?
I had another test where the member’s posting prividges are set:?Use Group Moderation Setting ?and the Same sort of message arrived in their email

This must be where the issue lies.
My groups Spam settings are:
Restricted Membership: ?ON
Announcement Group: ?ON
Moderation: ALL MESSAGES MODERATED
New User Moderated ?ON

I thought this would give me the funtionality I wanted, but it’s not.
Functionality I want: all messages to require moderation except for people I marked as unmoderated. ?When a member marked as ?Group Moderation Setting ?attempts a post, I want the moderators to get an email and then any one of them can approve the post and it goes thru.

Mod's note: attachment? (error messages says blob!) removed.

Thanks Samuel,

I was trying to make a new notice based on the existing list. For some reason it will not activate.?
Ive reported it to support.?

Peter