I am a moderator on a recently imported Yahoo Group, We don't allow "Delete Message" to regular members, Not even their own message.

The Hamburger More Menu at the bottom of messages on the web site allows a "Delete Message" option?
Question: How can I inhibit this option?
It causes serious difficulty for the archive of messages that has been running since the late 1990's. An archive of over 100,00 messages - each one "carefully stored and protected",

I've looked at settings and in this group's messages and can find no mention. Can anyone show me where this might be possible. I am happy that Moderator can delete messages, That's fine.

To preempt any queries I confirm that we really really do want to avoid members deleting their own messages.
Thanks for looking.

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 06:16 PM, J R wrote:

When I receive notifications by email that I have someone interested in joining my group. I wait for them to reply to the Pending Membership Notice to respond to several questions. When I receive their response I go to the Pending list (on the left) and their are no pending memberships listed?

• You get an email with the reply.
• You can go to Admin, Activity, Members and click to open the reply.
  • E.G. ?Bill Blogs <Billtoronto@...> sent message "Re: Your pending membership in the xxx group.
• Responses will also go to the group owner address and be recorded in the member’s page under "+owner messages."

Frances
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When I receive notifications by email that I have someone interested in joining my group. I wait for them to reply to the Pending Membership Notice to respond to several questions. When I receive their response I go to the Pending list (on the left) and their are no pending memberships listed?

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:23 PM, KentonLarson@... wrote:

Is there some setting to provide general members with the ability to create new albums?

Yes; go to Admin > Settings > scroll down to Features then to Photos... Permissions; change to Subscribers can view and upload.?

While you're in the area go up a bit and check that your Files setting is the same if you want your subs to be able to upload files.

And when you're finished scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Update Group.

There are other settings in those areas that may warrant some attention but they don't impact on members' ability to upload.

Chris

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 05:50 PM, glenn brooks wrote:

New group owner and moderator here. I don’t see any features that allows me to verify identity of people who apply to join our group. ?And don’t see a possible way to require name identification when group members ?create messages to the group. Is this possible to set up in the moderator/owner permissions area? ?If so, where might these controls and explanation be found?

if not, why would I want to screen membership requests?

No way to verify the identity of the applicants for your group.
However you can set up a Pending Subscription notice that is sent out automatically.
Only works if you have a restricted group -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Screening-New-Members-Using-the-Pending-Subscription-Notice

If you don't have a restricted group, or even if you do but don't want to use the Pending Subscription notice to ask questions, you could

• create a welcome notice that requires new members to add their identity online (first name?)
• put that in your group homepage too perhaps
• create a guidelines notice that is sent monthly that says the same thing

You can also in Admin, Settings, Spam Control, set the number of posts before the new member is off moderation. (You have to do that at any rate for non-restricted groups.) You can disallow them from posting freely until they have put in their identity.

Up to you really.

Frances
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Ah! That's useful. I overlooked that set of commands. Thanks Frances!

hello All,

New group owner and moderator here. I don’t see any features that allows me to verify identity of people who apply to join our group. ?And don’t see a possible way to require name identification when group members ?create messages to the group. Is this possible to set up in the moderator/owner permissions area? ?If so, where might these controls and explanation be found?

if not, why would I want to screen membership requests?

thanks much for any assistance you could offer.

Glenn

Here are the email commands - just send an email to the right one for you.
Be sure to send from your correct email address.
You will get a reply by email that you must reply to in order to confirm the change.
Then your subscription is quickly and automatically changed. No need to visit the website.

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Then I found another moderator had approved the message a couple minutes before and it hadn't posted yet. Is this all normal?

Moderating by email is quick, but it doesn't have the nice feature of showing that another editor is dealing with it.
Of course, if you click to go online instead of sending the blank reply email, that will happen once you select edit.

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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 05:23 PM, David Grimm wrote:

Delivery to the following recipients failed permanently:

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* main+approve+??(remainder edited out)

Reason: Permanent Error

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Then I found another moderator had approved the message a couple minutes before and it hadn't posted yet. Is this all normal?

Yes, this is normal.

I'm not the owner or moderator of the account, just a member.
However, I am in communication with the people running the group. If I
find out anything useful from them or while using the groups I can post
it. If anyone would like to know about using one from a subscriber's
perspective let me know.

Jonathan

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 02:23 PM, Jonathan Sivier wrote:

Glad to hear there is a reason for the odd behavior.

You're one of the few I know of that has an Enterprise account.? Hopefully you'll be willing to give us tips for things like this that others contemplating one may wonder about.? Minor differences can be hard to track down sometimes and it may prevent surprises.? Either mentioning them on the group or incorporating them into the Wiki pages would be great.

Thanks,
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 02:23 PM, Samuel Murray wrote:

Where have all the anonymizers gone?

I don't think groups.io allows those sites to create accounts anyway, the ones that have disposable addresses.

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Thanks. Glad to hear there is a reason for the odd behavior.

Jonathan

On 20 Nov 2019 20:08, Patti Woodbury wrote:

This will likely come up more frequently as a concern as more groups that are some form of "medical" or personal support are moved to groups.io.

If you only want people to be able to ask questions anonymously (i.e. create topics anonymously), but not reply anonymously, then one option is to let them to post their questions via a web form that e.g. adds a tracking number to the subject line, which then sends the information using an e-mail that is subscribed to the group.

If you want to regularly participate in the group but you don't want to create a separate nom de plume e-mail account for that, then my thinking was "pseudoanonymous remailers"... but after some googling I have come up short. Where have all the anonymizers gone?

Samuel

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If the column is set to type Link the column seems to close up, disappear, ??

If you create a column and leave the width set to 0 (recommended), it has to have something in it to determine the width, but it should still show up. It's possible that it's too far to the right if you have a lot of columns in front of it. Have you tried entering a row of data?

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