I am the owner of a group and am just getting my feet wet. On the left menu right next to the admin dropdown is a number "-2". What the heck is this and how do I respond to clear it?

No sure why it is minus 2. However if you open the dropdown menu you will likely see 2 messages waiting to be approved.

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Hi Cyndi,

it indicates that the receiving email system rejected the message because it is thinking that this groups.io server is sending spam, what is not true.

So contact this member and tell him to use a different email provider.

There are other options, but they all make no fun at all:-)

Regards,

Isidro

I am the owner of a group and am just getting my feet wet. On the left menu right next to the admin dropdown is a number "-2". What the heck is this and how do I respond to clear it?

Failed - 550 5.7.1 [C15] RBL restriction: Blacklisted by Internal Reputation Service - 66.175.222.12

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:46 AM, Eva Marie Mitchell wrote:

When we did our transfer, we ended up with messages and files from our main group moved into a subgroup.? The main group is members.. everyone is a member.? The sub group is membership and is a committee that vets members to make sure they are people that should be in the membership (we are a non-profit and require a donation to be in the communications area).? So, members can no longer access messages or files that were in the yahoo group for them.? I can see how the mistake was made but cannot get any answer as to how to rectify it.? We did NOT move anything from membership over as the person who had originally started that particular committee yahoo group has since died and no one could give moderator status to move it, so everything that is the membership group should go back to the members group.

Are there still files that were pulled from yahoo that could be reloaded to the members group and just delete all of the old things from membership?? What can I do to facilitate this?

I can tell you that Groups.io essentially copies the messages, etc. from your Yahoo Group. Unless you deleted your Yahoo Group, everything should still be there.

Frances

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We added a few screenshots to the wiki page on pending subscription notice.

Check it out:

/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Screening-New-Members-Using-the-Pending-Subscription-Notice

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On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 05:36 PM, J R wrote:

I followed the info. below that you wrote to another. I wrote a welcome notice asking questions, and checked Active, however when I received an inquiry from someone to join, how am I able to send that notice?

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You don't have to do anything. If you have an active Pending Subscription notice in a Restricted group, and someone sends an email or clicks on a link to join, the message is sent out automatically.

Then when you receive the reply from the potential member, you decide on whether or not you want the person as a member.

Frances
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 04:49 PM, Don Grass wrote:

I must be confused about what is being talked about here,? as David Kirkby asked "When I look at my list of groups, I see most groups have no image, but this group and one other..." When I looked at my list of groups under 'Your Groups' on my home page, I don't see any different icons at all. Is this what this discussion is about? I did see the icons when I went to the Feed as suggested, something I have rarely gone to, because I do not quite understand the purpose of it. Is it suppose to be a summary of what the groups have or are doing, instead of going to one's groups one at a time? Where does one find this Feed button or tab that shows the information on the Feed, or does one just type Feed in the URL after groups.io on a browser?

To see Feed, go to your groups.io homepage. Any of the groups you belong to.
Click on Groups.io in the blue band. You will see a list of the groups you subscribe to.
That's the default view.?
However just above Your Groups, there is a another view - Feeds. Click.
You will see that GMF has a small icon.?
You can see this in your email (I can on my iPhone). Useful to see at a glance which group you are opening.

Frances
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I must be confused about what is being talked about here,? as David Kirkby asked "When I look at my list of groups, I see most groups have no image, but this group and one other..." When I looked at my list of groups under 'Your Groups' on my home page, I don't see any different icons at all. Is this what this discussion is about? I did see the icons when I went to the Feed as suggested, something I have rarely gone to, because I do not quite understand the purpose of it. Is it suppose to be a summary of what the groups have or are doing, instead of going to one's groups one at a time? Where does one find this Feed button or tab that shows the information on the Feed, or does one just type Feed in the URL after groups.io on a browser?

Don

On 18 Nov 2019 21:39, Gary Gabaccia wrote:

One of our subscribers tells me that she is having trouble viewing
the directory of subscribers. When she clicks on Directory in the
menu on the left side of the page, she sees 4 of our 733 members.

Yes, if you're the owner or moderator, you'll see all members, but if
you're just an ordinary member, you may possibly only see the members
who have enabled their directory presence themselves.

In my one group, ordinary members can't see the directory at all unless
they change their "group profile"'s profile privacy to "other members":

/g/zalangmed/editprofile

...and after they've done that, they can see the other members who have
presumably done the same. So, for some reason, in this one group of
mine, members have to specifically **opt in** to be in the directory. I
assume this is typical.

The setting for both ... "Members Visible" in the Privacy section is
"Subscribers"...

As Bruce has said, the members list is different from the directory.

The members list always shows all members' e-mail addresses and their
subscription settings, but no images and no bio, and only the Display
Name can be customised by the user.

The directory does not show members' e-mail addresses (unless they
specifically mention it in their bio), and can contain photos of
members, their web site addresses, a biography, etc.

I'm not sure if it is possible to force members to be in the directory.

Samuel

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 08:44 PM, Gary Gabaccia wrote:

Am I missing something? Is she?

Slightly. Individual subscribers have a setting that allows them to withold their Directory entries from other members. As you are an Owner they cannot hide themselves from you, only from other members. In so doing they are also denied the ability to look at those members who do make their profiles public,

Having said that having only 4 visible entries out of 733 is a remarkably small number.

Chris

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 07:39 PM, Rob Robinson wrote:

Why a certain topic was changed to moderated I don't know.

Apart from checking your hashtags as suggested by Duane there is something else that might be worth checking although your point quoted above about "a certain topic" rather than more than one topic detracts from that.

Have a look in Admin > Settings and scroll down to Message Policies; check that Automatically Lock Topics Older Than --- days hasn't been set.

Chris

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 03:44 PM, Gary Gabaccia wrote:

We just transferred from a Yahoo Group and one of our subscribers tells me that she is having trouble viewing the directory of subscribers. When she clicks on Directory in the menu on the left side of the page, she sees 4 of our 733 members.

Gary -- The Directory and the Member List are not the same thing.

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Directory-and-Members-List

Regards,
Bruce

Please forgive me if this is a dumb question. I am a brand new owner of a brand new group.

We just transferred from a Yahoo Group and one of our subscribers tells me that she is having trouble viewing the directory of subscribers. When she clicks on Directory in the menu on the left side of the page, she sees 4 of our 733 members. The four appear to have little in common, in terms of the alphabetical listing of their names or the dates they originally joined the Yahoo Group. The setting for both the Member Directory and Members Visible in the Privacy section is Subscribers, which I would have thought would cover this. Am I missing something? Is she?

Thanks for any help.

Gary Gabaccia
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Sounds like it. It's worth making the distinction between first party and third party cookies when blocking (most browsers will let you distinguish).

Broadly, if not infallibly, first-party cookies are set by the website you're using to make the experience smoother for the duration of your visit. Third-party cookies?can help when switching between related sites, but are more open to abuse. Like they say, any technology can be weaponized :-).

Different browsers use different terminology, but probably you're looking to block 'tracking', 'cross-site tracking' or 'third party' rather than all cookies. Firefox probably has the most fine-grained control at the moment.

Derek

Thanks, Derek.? I think that may be what's happening, as I just found I am able to log in on my laptop, just not on my ipad on which I did recently block cookies.
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