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Re: European Date Format & 24hr Clock
#calendar
Jack,
So I wonder if there is a facility to record Calendar and other itemsNot as yet, but it has been discussed: Shal |
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Sharing a calendar with a subgroup?
#calendar
I've got a group and a subgroup representing the social calendar and public events taking place at a house, and the people who live at the house respectively.
The group is a public group with an application process; the subgroup is private and invite-only. I'd like to be able to make the group's calendar events auto-share with the subgroup so that residents can see what's going on at the house separately from the events to which they themselves are participating in. e.g., "I won't be involved at the board games event, so I decline it, but I should still see it on my calendar so I know everybody else at the house is busy." Is there a way to configure a group's calendar so that its events are auto-shared with a subgroup? |
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Help with a group renaming
#howtoguide
#groupowner
I'm an owner of a group that was, until today, named "stationbeta-social."
I created a subgroup of that group, called "residents". In the process, I renamed the group to "stationbeta". There's a textfield on the subgroups screen that had "stationbeta-social" in it as the group name. I used that to rename the group. Groups.io now is having trouble showing me either the main group or the subgroup on either "stationbeta.groups.io" or "stationbeta-social.groups.io". Any idea on how to fix this? Will this clean itself up on its own? How long does the renaming and realignment of resources take on the back end? |
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European Date Format & 24hr Clock
#calendar
Hi again folks,
The above topic may have already been covered (I had a wee search through existing Topics but nothing jumped out at me)? So I wonder if there is a facility to record Calendar and other items in a European date dd,mm,yy (or yyyy) format? And likewise the Clock in a 24hr format? Thanks Jack(;>J |
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Re: Spoofing email addresses
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýOn 8/23/2017 12:39 PM, Laurence Taylor
wrote:
On the other hand, many (most?) ISPs now prevent emails being sent from addresses that are not their own, and third-party providers require a username and password, so the risk is probably not great - and much less than it used to be. If all the ISPs did implement the SPF checking, a parameter of the DNS record, the problem would go away... --
73 Alberto I2PHD Credo Ut Intelligam |
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Email addresess in messages
Recently a message asked if anyone had an email address for a particular company.
It was supplied in a reply, which was fine if receiving postings by email but online the end of the address is replaced by .... My query is whether there is any way for an online user to find the full address. Noel |
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Groups.io site updates
#changelog
Hi all,
The last two week's change logs: Feel free to reply to this topic if you'd like to comment on the changes. Or better yet, if you expect a lot of discussion start a new topic (or rejoin an existing one) about a specific change. * All existing groups that didn't have a welcome message, now have one (no change in behavior, just internal changes). * Generate a welcome member notice on group and subgroup creation. There was some confusion about whether newly created groups had a welcome message. As it turns out they did, but it did not show up in the list of Member Notices. I think it is better now, to have it showing there so that the group management can see that it will be sent and can decide if they want to change it. The second of those implies change in behavior. Formerly the default (unedited) Welcome message was created on the fly when needed and would reflect the group's current name if the group managers had changed the group name or created a subgroup. As I read it that's no longer true - if you take either action you'll want to update your Welcome message accordingly. * Remove the restriction where there has to be an active member notice. Now you can unset an active member notice. For me this solves the problem of having two messages sent when I Direct Add members - one the Direct Add notice and the second the Welcome notice. For my PTA group those were redundant - they said pretty much the same thing. Now I can unset the Welcome notice before doing the Direct Add and re-set it after. It's better than having to delete it and re-create it. * In the Members view, have the Actions menu dropdown normally, only dropup on mobile. Ah, that fixes a minor annoyance I hadn't yet reported. When I would search for a member I'd usually get a short list of matches. Putting a check mark on the one I wanted then clicking the "Action" button would result in the top of menu being off-screen and unreachable. So I couldn't use the Action button to remove the member I just found; I'd have to open their membership page and use the Remove button there. * For Yahoo easy group transfers, we now delay sending messages to transferred people until all data has been imported. This fixes a problem some group managers reported: their members were so eager to get started posting and uploading that their contributions were getting mixed in with the data import in progress. This resulted in those messages being grossly out of chronological order. Comments about these others are also welcome: * INTERNAL: Work on the API. * CHANGE: For some reason, occasionally, the link that people click on as part of the 'email a login link' function contains a trailing "<br". We now catch that. * NEW: Created new [email protected] subgroup for discussion about the API. * CHANGE: If not registered, and trying to subscribe to a subgroup via email, stop with an error before the confirmation process. * INTERNAL: Bumped up the rate limits for logged in users and we now tell you when you've been rate limited, instead of you getting a blank page. Please call out any you find significant. Shal |
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Re: Spoofing email addresses
Pete,
What's the best way to prevent people from using another member'sI don't think there's anything the group management can do about that in terms of settings or other technological approaches. This may be something that you have to approach as a member management issue (grounds for moderation, removal, or banning) if and when it occurs. In the case of messages posted to Groups.io I haven't tested it myself, but I would expect Groups.io to drop most forms of "spoofed" messages -- particularly those that come from spambots and other illegitimate sources. Less certain (in my mind) are those that come by way of a legit email service - as is probably the case in your test. Major email services such as Yahoo Mail and Gmail don't allow users to spoof just any address - they require that you prove you are a legit user of that address. Usually they send a code to the address and you have to enter it. A malcontent won't be able to set up a spoof of an unsuspecting member using such a service. I have used ISPs that don't bother with that test, and allow their users to spoof (nearly) any email address. Verizon, for example, used to allow me to spoof any address that wasn't another Verizon user. I'm not sure what, if anything, Groups.io would be willing to do technologically about malcontents who use a service like that. If you have a specific example you might cite it to [email protected] and see what they have to say about it. There are tell-tales in the message headers that would allow them to recognize a spoof originating at a legit service. But Groups.io might be hesitant to reject all such spoofs, as there may be people using that technique legitimately. Shal |
Shal Farley
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Jack - GM4COX
Alberto I2PHD
Noel Leaver