Work begins on Groups.io in 2014 - Wed, 01/06/2021
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"Work begins on Groups.io in 2014" When: Wednesday, 6 January 2021 Description: Mark Fletcher posted in Twitter that this date as the anniversary of his starting work on Groups.io: ¡°I started work
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[email protected] Calendar <noreply@...>
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#36147
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Re: Groups.io does not permit these types of groups and content?
FWIW IMO having occasionally someone post something that, for example, could be construed as promotion of anti-vaccination ideologies would not be in violation of Mark's groups.io boundaries. And IMO
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Alex
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Re: Is the filter on the admin member list BUGGED or am missing something?
#members
#bug
Agree, it would be very helpful to be able to filter on badges, not just member status badges but also sub preferences badges as well, any available/shown badge in that list. Cheers, Christos
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Christos Psarras
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Re: yG Privacy Dashboard download
#yahooprivacydashboard
#ioimportpl
Hi Lena, Thank you for sharing your Perl script. I was able to get through step #12 successfully, running on my Windows PC.? But at step #13, I'm getting the error message that port 25 is blocked by
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B. Brooke Mann
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Re: Suggestions for how to pay for your group
#donations
The costs are not that high so a small donation from members is all that is needed. They shouldn't be collecting excess funds. Mark wrote that for premium accounts the cost will be $220/year. Up to
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Frances
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Re: Is the filter on the admin member list BUGGED or am missing something?
#members
#bug
A person on override:moderated will display an "M" status badge within the regular member list. /helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/additional-information/member-badges-and-topic-icons Sounds
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Bruce
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Re: Suggestions for how to pay for your group
#donations
Well, one could combine the group's activities with other platforms. For example, one could have both a Google Group and a Groups.io group, and then limit the Groups.io group to paying members, while
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Samuel Murray
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Is the filter on the admin member list BUGGED or am missing something?
#members
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Before I submit to the beta group, when I look at our ADMIN > member list, the filter at the top shows member setting attributes such as banned, bounced, moderators, etc.? ? But I cannot filter to
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KWKloeber
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Re: Groups.io does not permit these types of groups and content?
Erynn, I think Ken hit it on the head; I wouldn't worry too much about this, provided your subgroup is genuinely discussing something vs promoting it, and it really does come down to concise rules and
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Christos Psarras
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Re: Suggestions for how to pay for your group
#donations
I'd like to comment on the practical side of things. Let's accept that this pricing change means that most groups that choose to use Groups.io will eventually become paying groups, and therefore their
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Samuel Murray
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Re: Suggestions for how to pay for your group
#donations
In UK the answer is yes. I am a (long retired) tax accountant (among other things). Jim Fisher
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Jim Fisher
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Re: Suggestions for how to pay for your group
#donations
One approach to paying for a group is to set it up as a business run by the group owner. I write books and make a little money at it. When I sold my first book I had my tax accountant set up a writing
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Marvin Waschke
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Re: Groups.io does not permit these types of groups and content?
Erynn, As new moderators of a 20-year-old group that has migrated from Yahoo, we This could become something of a hot-potato topic. I'd like to limit responses to those with either experience or
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Shal Farley
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Re: Suggestions for how to pay for your group
#donations
jonathon, Soliciting donations can be a minefield. > Possibly so. Which is why my #suggestion in beta <https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/79433943> has the donation go directly to Groups.io, not to
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Shal Farley
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Re: Groups.io does not permit these types of groups and content?
For what it's worth: I disagree with your prise that the rules are vague.? You have to parse the clauses.? There's a *very clear* difference between members openly "discussing" Pizzagate, and the
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KWKloeber
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#36133
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Re: Suggestions for how to pay for your group
#donations
I'm not a lawyer, nor an accountant. Soliciting donations can be a minefield. One issue is having the appropriate licenses to solicit donations. Taxes are a second issue. I've forgotten the court case
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toki
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Re: why do all my images show as blurry lo res?
#images
Settings/message policies ¡ª
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David Smith <dvdcsmth@...>
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Re: why do all my images show as blurry lo res?
#images
Go to Admin, Settings. Scroll down to Features, Photos. See Max Size In Photos Section Automatically resize photos uploaded to the photos section that are larger than a specific size. Use the menu
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Frances
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Re: Suggestions for how to pay for your group
#donations
Shal, I did a five year projection based on the NEW pricing plan. In the pricing plan Mark has defined the three list types by member size: Free (Basic) - 100 members Premium (Paid) - 400 members
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SP4149
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#36129
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Groups.io does not permit these types of groups and content?
As new moderators of a 20-year-old group that has migrated from Yahoo,? we have some questions about the below listed restricted dedicated groups and content. We decided to open a subgroup for OT
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Erynn Albert
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