Duane,

Should/could this sort of inappropriate post also be helped along by adding an appropriate hashtag and setting the hashtag to 'Only Moderators Can Reply', which would also add a layer of blocking in addition to locking the topic? Or would a hashtag be overkill?

It might also be useful to make such a post 'Sticky' so that as a Moderator it stays where you won't forget it.

And BTW, in such an instance as this where the post in not immediately rejected, do you contact the member who posted it or just let the 'Mod Note' be the alert?

Regards,

Paul M.
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On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 07:23 AM, Richard Moore wrote:

is there a way for me to add lots of subscribers from an existing non-io group, without them needing to take action?

Mostly.? You could upgrade the group to Premium for one month, currently $20, to Direct Add everyone.? (That would also get you some other features you may want to use during that time.)? They'd each get an email that they'd been added that would include a link they can use to unsubscribe, which would be the only action they'd need to take, if they want.? After the month, you could use invitations.? You'd still have the option of upgrading for another month later if you have a lot to add.

Duane
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Sorry, I'm sure this has been discussed back in the days of Yahoo migrations, but is there a way for me to add lots of subscribers from an existing non-io group, without them needing to take action?

That has just happened to me as well - the addresses have changed. (I have a link on the Home page to take members to "Latest News"; much easier to keep the Wiki updated than the Home page.)

Do you have a link that you click on to take you a specific Wiki page? Or, do you have a "sticky Wiki page" that actually displays at the top of the Gneral Messages page?

Andy has indicated (above) how to achieve the "sticky Wiki". Otherwise, just copy the web address of the desired Wiki page and edit the link on your General Messages page.

HTH,
Brian.

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Rubens wrote:

The best thing the member should do is
change to another email provider and
rejoin your group.

I think better still is to resume their existing membership, using the link provided in the notice that was sent to them, and then later go to their account and change their email address. This will preserve their membership info (join date, subscription options, role) where re-joining under the new address will not.

Note that changing their email address in their account will update all of their group memberships, not just the one they were removed from.

If the person can't find the notice to resume their membership, they can still log in to Groups.io and change their email address rather than rejoining. I'm not absolutely certain what happens to the removed status in this case though. I would hope that it would be reset, but possibly that's a trap-door in the system.

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Mark -- For completeness, I should also mention you can do the same member sync function by uploading a flat-text file containing all the email addresses and [optionally] their Display Names, by using the "File Sync" button at the top of the same page (Admin>Members). Any address that appears in the file will be added, and any current subscriber not found in the file will be removed...with no notification.

The entries must be in the same format that's used for uploading members for the Invite or Direct Add function (plain text, each address on its own line). A CSV file or an Excel spreadsheet will not work.

This feature is only available to Premium/Enterprise groups.

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Hi peeps,

With 2 yahoo groups that I own, that we had moved to groups.io, I had to make about 10 attempts, over a period of several months, in order to change the settings -- I was starting to think it wouldn't be possible to do at all --

-- changed to "new member needs approval", so if someone tries to join the yahoo group, we say no, join the groups.io group
-- put at the head of the group description, "hey we've moved to groups.io, here's the link"

We still get occasional attempts to join --
in the past several weeks we've gotten a handful of spam attempts --
and very odd:? we'll get an email from yahoo, "there is a pending member", but you go look and there is no pending person wanting to join.

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...
Lo| I've never heard of a member being
| unsubscribed for marking a message
| from another member as spam???


So, you never read messages posted at
GMF group, because it's a very common
occurence.

As it was said, there's no such thing
as "message from another member", all
messages are from Groups.io on behalf
of a member. So, some email providers
can decide these messages are spam.
The problem is with the Mail Service.

The best thing the member should do is
change to another email provider and
rejoin your group.


[ ] Rubens









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On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 06:49 PM, TAFN Webmaster wrote:

When we was using mailman we used a plugin witch when a member sign up to our organisation they automatically was signed up to our announce mailing list

Is there any way we could do this with groups.io

If you go to Admin>Members and click on the "Service Sync" button at the top of the page you can sync your group membership with that of an external service. Unfortunately, the only one currently supported is Slack.
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On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 05:49 PM, TAFN Webmaster wrote:

When we was using mailman we used a plugin witch when a member sign up to our organisation they automatically was signed up to our announce mailing list

You could have someone that does programming take a look at the GIO API to see if they could come up with something to connect to your program, /api? If you have a paid group, it could even Direct Add them, so minimize required emails.

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On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 05:49 PM, Neil wrote:

How can this idea be proposed to the groups.io team of designers and developers?

You can post a #suggestion on the .? Similar suggestions have been made in the past though.

Any of those things can already be included in the group description and would be found using the search box on the publicly listed groups directory page.? A search for California found 409 groups, even Massachusetts found 90 listed.? I see no reason to duplicate the functionality.

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How about making groups locally discoverable?

I am not sure what data groups.io communities could be asked to share which would make it possible to search and find them. A zip code? A city name??Folks could then visit groups.io and search by zip code and see who in the city or neighborhood had a group they could ask to join or simply join. ?Right new seekers can search by Most Popular, Most?Active, Newest and By Name.

Thoughts??Comments? What do others think?
How can this idea be proposed to the groups.io team of designers and developers?

Thank you, Chris -- I'm so used to starting any sort of edit with a "right click"
that I totally whiffed on simply left-clicking the thumbs to access editing controls.
Got it now!

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 07:29 PM, Lori - cyberTOPS wrote:

I've never heard of a member being unsubscribed for marking a message from another member as spam???

As Bruce said this is a common problem.

A small semantic point; no message is "from another member". All messages are from Groups.io on behalf of a member. As a result Groups.io sends out a phenomenal number of emails and some Mail Service Providers can suddenly decide to get twitchy about it.

Chris

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:27 PM, Butch7999 wrote:

I think I'm correct in concluding that it can't be done with photos, eh?

Fortunately you are mistaken, at least partly. Go to the photo in question (in whatever album* it is in) and click on the thumbnail. Owners (and Moderators with the relevant permission) and the photo's originator can edit the name and add a description. Where appropriate the ownership of he photo can also be reassigned.

* If the photo was sent as an attachment and is thus in the Emailed Photos album then the details cannot be edited.

Chris

Pardon another stupid question, but they're the only kind I ask, and I expect the answer is simple.
Is there no way to retitle a photo that's already been uploaded to a group's Photos section?
It's easy enough to do with Files, but I think I'm correct in concluding that it can't be done with photos, eh?

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 02:29 PM, Lori - cyberTOPS wrote:

I've never heard of a member being unsubscribed for marking a message from another member as spam???? ?If they'd been *sending* spam, yes but they weren't, they (prob accidentally) marked someone else's message as spam.?

This is very common. See?/helpcenter/faq/1/group-member-faq/q-i-got-a-message-that-i?and?

Is there a way to change this on my group settings? (I've xxx'd out the member's name and the message name)

No.

Regards,
Bruce?

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