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Re: Unmoderate new group members

 

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 09:14 PM, Margery Flax wrote:
I need to add some new members - do they have to be moderated on their first post? Is there a way to disable this?
You have to select at least one entry in the Spam Control settings. If you don't want to manage membership requests by moderating posts, check only the Restricted Membership box. Anyone who accepts your invitation (and responds to the groups.io confirmation message*) will then be able to post immediately.
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Hope this helps,
Bruce

*If you have a Premium group, use Direct Add and they won't even have to do that.
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Re: Unmoderate new group members

Fabien
 

I believe, you can uncheck the checkboxes, so you don¡¯t have to approve posts. However, I¡¯m not sure how to do it, for a specific person. I believe you click on their profile, for the new member, and click on the check box where it it doesn¡¯t need approval. Someone please correct me on this though.
Unmoderate new group members

 

Our list was migrated from yahoo a few months ago.? I need to add some new members - do they have to be moderated on their first post? Is there a way to disable this?? And, I am not sure what would be the correct setting for the following but our list is not moderated at all and it is a private list.

All posts require approval before being sent to the group.

New Users Moderated

Posts from new subscribers require approval.

Unmoderate After
Automatically unmoderate new users after N consecutive approved posts.

So, what is the correct setting for "unmoderate after" so that they are not moderated at all...

Thank you,
Margery Flax
group name - maximum number of letters?

 


i'm attempting to create a group so i can migrate a yahoo group to it and i keep getting "That address is not valid". The group is? UnityInMotion-TheNewConsciousnessOfLife Is there maximum number of letters for a group name? I've seen group names with caps and dashes.?

Re: Owner left

 

It seems that you're the only owner left so you can't leave.? You'd need to delete it at the bottom of the settings page.? Go to the Home page of the group to see if there's an Owner badge next to the Home item on the left menu.? You can always go to the Admin > Members page, then select Moderators from the Members dropdown to see the status of any remaining.? If there are no other owners and you can't delete the group, you'll need to contact Support.

Duane
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Re: Owner left

Fabien
 

I¡¯m not sure. If you have any way of contacting the owner, to ask him or her what to do. Or what the plan is. I just created a group myself, and only have a few members. It is for my YouTube channel primarily, but it¡¯s also, used to ask people or talk about assistive technology, accessible games for the blind and such.
Owner left

Shadow Grafix
 

Apparently the original owner of this group has left. I am attempting to delete the group or leave the group but the system keeps telling me I had to appoint a new group owner. I do not have any admin permissions. What can I do?
Judy
Re: Does a message recipient that is in multiple subgroups receive multiple copies of same email?

 

Roger,

If a message is sent to all three subgroups, does John receive three
versions of the same email (or does the system eliminate all but one
message)?
A person who is a member of all three subgroups would be sent three copies of the message. Each with its own subgroup-specific subject tag and footer.

Whether that person sees all three copies depends on their email interface. Gmail, for example, will show only one copy and hide the duplicates. I don't think you can control, or even predict, which copy is shown. As far as I know, Gmail is rather unusual in doing that.

... is there a setting that enables receipt of only one copy of the
message?
No.

Since a member of any subgroup must also be a member of the primary group, it is possible that in this scenario the better option would be to post the message to the primary group. Then everyone would be sent only one copy.

Shal


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Re: Post preview for links... like Google+ and Facebook and Twitter... #postpreviews

 

Beno?t,

Non news about Mark?
I'm not sure what you mean.

If you're talking about Mark Fletcher (Groups.io developer) he is back from vacation but he doesn't read GMF so he wouldn't even know this question has been raised.

I've not heard anything about it since your post in beta:


Shal


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Re: Post preview for links... like Google+ and Facebook and Twitter... #postpreviews

 

Non news about Mark?
Does a message recipient that is in multiple subgroups receive multiple copies of same email?

 

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Or, does??send only one copy of the message to the recipient? ? For example,?john@...?is a member of three different subgroups. ? If a message is sent to all three subgroups, does John receive three versions of the same email (or does the system eliminate all but one message)? ? The use case I am inquiring about includes the same email address within multiple subgroups (not different email addresses for same recipient). ? If the answer is ¡°no¡±, then is there a setting that enables receipt of only one copy of the message??

Thank you.?
Roger
Re: Some replies going to all regardless of group settings

 

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 07:04 PM, Duane wrote:
To keep them all the same, you can change some of the Settings for the group so that all come through as either html or plain text.
Ah yes; found that, but haven't changed it yet. I just wonder if something like this was the root cause of the original enquiry.

Chris
Re: Some replies going to all regardless of group settings

 

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 12:44 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
I can clearly see two different presentations of incoming posts
The first is for a message that was sent as html, the second was sent as plain text.? To keep them all the same, you can change some of the Settings for the group so that all come through as either html or plain text.
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Re: A generic Web link for non-members asking to join

 

Check the Promote page under Admin.

Jonathan

On 1/20/2019 12:26 PM, Mike@... wrote:
Hi,
My group is closed to the public but I still want potential members to ask to join.? In Yahoo there was a slick formula that I would place on any Web page
and all someone would have to do is type their E-mail address and click send or join and the list owner would receive the request to join.
Do we have such a formula?? Here's my old one.
A generic Web link for non-members asking to join

 

Hi,

My group is closed to the public but I still want potential members to ask to join.? In Yahoo there was a slick formula that I would place on any Web page
and all someone would have to do is type their E-mail address and click send or join and the list owner would receive the request to join.

Do we have such a formula?? Here's my old one.

<form method=GET action="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/Clocksmiths">
? ? ? ? ? ? ? <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 border=0 bgcolor=#FFFFCC>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <tr>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <td colspan=2 align=center>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <b>Subscribe to Clocksmiths</b>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? </td>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? </tr>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <tr>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <td>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <input type=text name="user" value="enter email address" size=20>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? </td>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <td>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <input type=image border=0 alt="Click here to join Clocksmiths"
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?name="Click here to join Clocksmiths "src="http://groups.yahoo.com/img/ui/join.gif">
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? </td>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? </tr>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <tr align="center">
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <td colspan="2">
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Powered by
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/">groups.yahoo.com</a>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?</td>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? </tr>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? </table>
? ? ? ? ? ? ? </form>
Re: Transfer Process Tip

 

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It's quite possible it's a bug. All I know is I lost days waiting for things to transfer only to go back and find my directions didn't take, twice. I finally got things sorted, though, but only after starting from the right group's page.

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On 1/19/19 10:46 PM, Shal Farley wrote:

Brandy,

> If you're transferring more than one group, especially if you have
> subgroups, make sure you start from the home page of the group you
> want to transfer before clicking on the Easy Transfer link at the
> bottom of the page. You cannot click that link and then select another
> group's name from the drop-down list to send orders for other groups.
> The orders won't take.

I think you've confused yourself in some fashion. It doesn't seem possible that the information of where you were when you clicked on the Easy Transfer link could possibly matter to the rest of the process.

However, if you're certain of what you say please report the details to [email protected] - for that most certainly would be a bug. Include step by step what you did and what happened, or didn't happen.

Shal



Re: Some replies going to all regardless of group settings

 

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:29 AM, Shal Farley wrote:
Unfortunately email interfaces vary in how they handle replies.
I suspect that it might be more than "how they handle replies". At the moment I have individual emails set only for the group I moderate, which limits the scope of any visual inspection but I can clearly see two different presentations of incoming posts (post moderation).

One is like this:



While the other is like this:



In the second one the "Reply Options" simply don't feature, which is rather puzzling, because I assume that Groups.io adds the "footer" to the poster's original. The View/Reply Online link is also different for the two formats.

Not sure if this helps or hinders...

Chris

Re: Invite Question

 

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 09:48 AM, Den W2DEN wrote:
i have three members that have accepted their invites, they are in the Members list, yet the Invite list has them as Sent, not Accepted. Our group is by invite only and only members can post.

Perhaps we have uncovered a bug in the system. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
This situation has been mentioned before (Ref:?/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/27398965). The consensus opinion seems to be that the member(s) somehow got approved without clicking on the link in the emailed invitation. A Direct Add could do this...or if you invited some of these folks to your group early on and they subsequently got added via Yahoo transfer, that would also leave the invitations in limbo.

So the first question is:? Has your group always used the Restricted method of Spam Control??

Try searching the activity log for join information. The best way I've found to do this is to go to Admin>Activity and enter the subscriber's email address in the Search box. This will return all activity logged for that account (i.e.: not just the activities that the subscriber initiated). Now click on the blue Search button and click on the Created link to sort early entries to the top.

If the user was added via transfer, it will say "Support added." Otherwise, check whether the "invited" and "accepted invitation" entries are in proper sequence, and/or whether the subscriber got into the group by some other means.?

If you continue to see anomalies, I think we would all be grateful for the results of any testing you might do to chase this down for good.??

Hope this helps,
Bruce
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Re: Asking a question of new subscribers before approving

 

People ask to join our main group in several ways - through Groups.IO, through word of mouth, some books or other web sites list us as a resource (we are a peer support group). No matter how the referral comes to us, we have a "form letter" that is manually sent by one of the moderators - we have shifts so 4 of us can take turns checking our group email account and the Pending member list. Our letter tells a little more about the group and includes the questions we want to ask of new members. AFTER we get a response to that email then we "Approve" or "Add" the member and they get the automated Welcome Letter through Groups.IO.

It really isn't that much of a problem - we only get a few inquiries a week now (after over 20 years the size has leveled out!) and our form letter is stored as a template so our "check the email" chore usually takes only a minute or two. I can see wanting to automate this if you get dozens of requests, or if you are the only person responsible for it, but actually, we like to have that bit of personal contact before adding a new person.

I know there are lots of ways groups have handled the issue of needing more information or verification - just sharing what works for us.

Barb
Re: Invite Question

 

i have three members that have accepted their invites, they are in the Members list, yet the Invite list has them as Sent, not Accepted. Our group is by invite only and only members can post.

Perhaps we have uncovered a bug in the system. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Den
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