Thanks, Frances.

My responses to each applicant are personalized—won't work with a generic auto-send Welcome message.

An auto-send Welcome message already goes out to explain group rules and guidelines.?

I read those discussions. Wanted to make sure I was getting the latest info.

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Thanks, Donald. Good luck with your experiment. At this point, I can't risk it! ;-)

It's not always allowed.? For instance, I cannot delete my messages in group mgrs (this group).
It's dependent on the way the group is set up.
I also cannot Edit my own messages here, in this group, once I've posted and have it approved by a moderator..
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 01:10 PM, Wolfram Schneider wrote:

How can I import them into the new group?

There is no import function.? All you can do is go through the files you received to verify that you use the same settings on the new group.? It might be easier to just open both groups in separate tabs, but with all the options available, it might still be difficult to not accidentally skip over something.

Duane
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 06:29 PM, Janie wrote:

Can't a member remove his own posts?

To actually answer the question...

Yes; it's an option in the More (hamburger) menu under each message.

Chris

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 06:33 PM, Frances wrote:

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Can't a member remove his own posts?

Only if you allow it in Admin, ?Settings.

Having had a quick double check I don't think that is true. The ability of a member to delete a message exists even if editing is disallowed as a group setting.

Chris

I have a group and exported the group settings and notices. I need to set-up a different group where i want to use the same settings and notices. How can I import them into the new group?
Regards,
Wolfram

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:03 AM, Linda Liao wrote:

Are other groups also starting to see an increase in fake member requests from random aol addresses again that seem to originate from IP addresses in India? Today one of them actually sent a response to the automatic pending subscription member notice with a "thank u." (But no response to the actual member questions)?

Same here - about 50 over the last two months.? And I also got one that responded to the questionnaire and said they lived in Dallas, although the IP address was in India.? I replied if the India address was temporary and asked what their interest was in our group.? No reply so far.

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 01:29 PM, Janie wrote:

We have a member who keeps bugging the mods to remove this post, remove that post, because they were showing up on google search. (Group privacy settings have since been updated to stop that)?

Can't a member remove his own posts?

Only if you allow it in Admin, ?Settings.
See?/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/customizing-group-settings/message-policy-settings?single=true

Disable Editing Messages

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Select this checkbox if you do not want to allow members to make changes to the content of their own messages in the message archive (that is, after the messages have been posted to the group).

Note:?Owners and moderators can still edit messages that are pending approval. Moderators can also edit messages in the archive if they have the appropriate permissions.

Frances?
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We have a member who keeps bugging the mods to remove this post, remove that post, because they were showing up on google search. (Group privacy settings have since been updated to stop that)?

Can't a member remove his own posts?

Christos G. Psarras:

I don't know, but at the very least, keep tabs and info somewhere so if it
does get to that point again we can have the info ready?quickly.

I agree. I have a new pending member with a strange aol account, apparently from Holland.
My group is restricted and prospective members must introduce themselves to be approved, so I am not particularly worried, but I'll keep all info in case of a new invasion of fake accounts.
Cheers,
Marina

Bruce,

For group owners, there already exists a page to do bulk actions at
the topic level. It was never added to the menu system because it's
just a little too powerful.

As I recall, there were two things that held this back.

First was that it enabled bulk deletion of topics, which (for reasons) incurs (or incurred) a very large load on the servers. Mostly the need to clean up everything that points to those messages. Mark had some ideas to improve this, but I don't know if that ever happened.

Second was that there is no "Undo". That's the "too powerful" part - make a mistake and you're stuck with it. Even support can't restore the deleted topics. Again, a substantial development effort would be required to support this.

This strikes me as a parallel to that, but now you're opening it up to
subscribers...who know even less about the system than owners do.

Presumably subscribers wouldn't have the Delete option, or any other option not normally available to subscribers. I don't *think* bulk update of Mute/Follow status would overload the servers, but I could be wrong about that.

Concerns about implementation effort, or resource usage, can only really be evaluated by Mark. So I wouldn't let these concerns deter someone from suggesting it on beta.

Shal


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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 08:30 PM, Bruce W Fairhall wrote:

But where do I mark it as ACTIVE?

That's a couple of pages up in the manual, /helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-member-notices/creating-editing-or-deleting-member-notices

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Thanks, Bruce,
But where do I mark it as ACTIVE?? I looked again but cannot see a button or ...

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:45 PM, Bruce W Fairhall wrote:

How do I permanently customise our new Group Invitation, please?

I spent some time adding my customisation but could not find a SAVE button.

Create a Member Notice of type Invite and make it Active.

/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-member-notices/invite-notice?

Regards,
Bruce

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Gina . . .

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:01:01 -0800, "Gina Pera" <GINAP56@...>
wrote:

It involves using my private e-mail address (GinaP56@...), sent through Outlook, to welcome applicants to my group. Is it possible to use the group-owner e-mail instead -- THROUGH my Outlook and not the website?

It may depend on your email provider. I am able to spoof the group
owner's address using an email program that lets me change the
apparent from address. I use it judiciously as I was able to (in a
test) to appear to post a generic message from one of my moderator's
email addresses in Yahoo. I haven't tested it in GIO. But to a private
email address it appears to come from the group owner address. I don't
know what happens if they try to reply though.

Donald


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Scott . . .

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:09:24 +0000, "Scott Mohr" <mohrs@...>
wrote:

Team- I’m planning on adding about 1600 to our G.IO group but am wondering if there’s a cap/limit, or just being seen as SPAM by other providers. Should I break up the invites over time or just pull the trigger on it?

I think I sent invitations out to a few hundred at a time and got the
"pending review" notice. It cleared in an hour or two and I did
another few hundred. I did the same until all members were invited.

You probably can do the entire 1600 at once. I didn't try doing them
all at once.

Donald


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How do I permanently customise our new Group Invitation, please?

I spent some time adding my customisation but could not find a SAVE button.

When I returned to the Invite page a few minutes later my customisation was gone! All that brain drain wasted!

Thanks!

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 02:03 PM, Linda Liao wrote:

Are other groups also starting to see an increase in fake member requests from random aol addresses again that seem to originate from IP addresses in India?

Linda -- If this becomes a persistent problem in your group, the standard response is to make the group Restricted, at least for awhile. That way any new applicants can be vetted before they are let in (and potentially become a problem).

If your group provides any information in files or photos or wherever that could be misused, this is a wise move anyway. Last time this happened, back in late January, it generated a lot of GMF traffic (/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/70052673), along with new restrictions on when the group's member list can be made available to subscribers.

Regards,
Bruce

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