How to correct how group name appears in email messages

#27999

My art guild (Clayville Calfornia) has a member group and a board of directors group.? To better differentiate the two group names and to avoid confusion for board members I changed the board's group name.? All is well EXCEPT that the old email name still appears in email messages even though the email name was changed successfully.? I wanted the word "Board" to appear first in the group name and email.

Group Name:??Clayviille California Board of Directors?is now?Board of Directors - Clayville California

Group email:??[email protected]?is now?[email protected]

Unfortunately, the subject line in email messages still comes up with the word "Board" at the end despite the sender using the email address shown above.?

[ClayvilleCaliforniaBoard]...........??

Any thoughts???

Thank you,

Maureen

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Re: Direct adding names as well as emails #addmembers

#27998
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Try the Concatenate function:

CONCATENATE(fncell, " ", lncell, " <", emailcell, ">")

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Bruce

Re: Group e-mail address

#27997

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You can update the welcome message at ??Is the email address at the bottom of the welcome message correct? What about the bottom of your welcome webpage?

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On Jan 20, 2020, at 4:02 PM, Alan <TallyMen@...> wrote:

?Hello,

Shown on Admin / Settings / General, tab "Group e-mail address" is: [email protected] (where xxx is "mygroupname")
but my welcome message says the Group address is "[email protected]" (where xxx is "mygroupname")

Messages addressed either way both get through to the main site.
But showing one on the Group Settings page and another in the welcome message is undesirable.

Can I (as owner) change this so that the address noted everywhere is "[email protected]" (where xxx is "mygroupname")?

Thanks

Alan

Re: Giving a reason why joining a group

#27996

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 09:02 PM, Douglas Swearingen wrote:

Have you set up any member notices?

Specifically have you set up a Pending Subscription notice; it is there for exactly the purpose in question.

Chris

Re: Group e-mail address

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On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 04:02 PM, Alan wrote:

Shown on Admin / Settings / General, tab "Group e-mail address" is: [email protected] (where xxx is "mygroupname")
but my welcome message says the Group address is "[email protected]" (where xxx is "mygroupname")

The default Welcome message is initially defined when you set up the group, before you create any subgroups.

Messages addressed either way both get through to the main site.
But showing one on the Group Settings page and another in the welcome message is undesirable.

Can I (as owner) change this so that the address noted everywhere is "[email protected]" (where xxx is "mygroupname")?

No, but you can do it the other way around...edit the Welcome message to match what appears on the Home page.

Bruce

Re: Giving a reason why joining a group

#27994

On 20/01/2020 20:37, DEBBIE MCCREIGHT via Groups.Io wrote:

My group has to have my approval before they join the group. Is there anyway they could tell the reason for joining? I had this field when I was with yahoo groups.See also:
/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/35051069

Samuel

Re: Giving a reason why joining a group

#27993

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Hello Debbie,

Have you set up any member notices?? I have a member notice set up where any new member applying to my group, has to respond to information sent them.

This is done through Settings>Member Notice.

At the same place you can set up a Member Notice called Goodbye.? That notice would be where you set up whatever information yoiu want from someone leaving a restricted group.? Whenever someone would leave the group they would receive this notice as to what information youi set up for members when they leave a group.

I hope this helps.? If not, maybe someone else can explain this better then I can.

Have a Great Day,

Doug

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of DEBBIE MCCREIGHT via Groups.Io <debbiemccreight@...>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 12:37 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [GMF] Giving a reason why joining a group

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Hello,

My group has to have my approval before they join the group. Is there anyway they could tell the reason for joining? I had this field when I was with yahoo groups.

thank you,

debbie

Group e-mail address

#27992

Hello,

Shown on Admin / Settings / General, tab "Group e-mail address" is: [email protected] (where xxx is "mygroupname")
but my welcome message says the Group address is "[email protected]" (where xxx is "mygroupname")

Messages addressed either way both get through to the main site.
But showing one on the Group Settings page and another in the welcome message is undesirable.

Can I (as owner) change this so that the address noted everywhere is "[email protected]" (where xxx is "mygroupname")?

Thanks

Alan

Giving a reason why joining a group

#27991

Hello,

My group has to have my approval before they join the group. Is there anyway they could tell the reason for joining? I had this field when I was with yahoo groups.

thank you,

debbie

Re: Direct adding names as well as emails #addmembers

#27990

Too bad. ?Adding the brackets, and making several columns in a spread sheet into one is possible, but will take much manipulation with global find-and-replace commands in Excel and Office. I can do it.

Re: Is there a way to prevent specific files from being downloaded

#27989

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 02:07 PM, Ruth Daniels wrote:

Allowing only Moderators to download the file is fine, as long as everyone else can still open the file without allowing them to download it.?

A file cannot be opened without downloading it. Depending on browser add-ons, it may open as a temp file in a browser, and subsequently be deleted from the cache...but it's still being downloaded first.

Bruce

Re: Is there a way to prevent specific files from being downloaded

#27988

Allowing only Moderators to download the file is fine, as long as everyone else can still open the file without allowing them to download it.?
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Ruth D

Re: Direct adding names as well as emails #addmembers

#27987

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 02:01 PM, Events events wrote:

I will be direct adding new members by uploading a file. ?If I have a spread sheet with Fname, Lname, Email, can I add the names as well as the emails? ?

Yes. Use the format:

Fname Lname <email address>?
Fname2 Lname2 <email address2>?
etc...

The file must be plain text, NOT Excel or CSV or anything like that. Be sure to include the angle brackets.

Bruce

Direct adding names as well as emails #addmembers

#27986

I will be direct adding new members by uploading a file. ?If I have a spread sheet with Fname, Lname, Email, can I add the names as well as the emails? ?

I know that I might be subjected to delays while Groups.io checks the list for spam. That should not be an issue; I cleaned the list before adding.

Re: Is there a way to prevent specific files from being downloaded

#27985

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 01:52 PM, Ruth Daniels wrote:

Is there a way to prevent specific files from being downloaded by the general membership??

Ruth -- Not really, unless you want to make everyone who is allowed to get the files a Moderator.

Best practice is probably to place such restricted files in a separate group or subgroup...or if a Word or PDF document or something like that, you can password-protect the file(s).

Bruce

Is there a way to prevent specific files from being downloaded

#27984

Is there a way to prevent specific files from being downloaded by the general membership??
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Ruth D

New to Groups.io? Just setting up your group? #howtoguide #settings

#27983

There is a help page in the GMF wiki that walks you through the settings, including privacy, spam control, message policies, message formatting and features. Also Default Subscription settings, cover photo and group icon, and member notices.

/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation

Frances
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GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers

Re: Time Zone #time zone #time

#27982

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 12:43 PM, Richard Waller wrote:

Hi - I seem to have a similar problem. I have (in order):

set the default sub time zone (to London)

invited a couple of members

accepted the invitations (these are test addresses of my own)

If I send a few messages around and log in as one of those members the messages all have (I am guessing) Pacific time - for example a message sent/received at 17:03 London time shows a 9:03. I've double and triple checked and the groups settings for sub defaults are definitely set to London/Dublin etc, not the default.
Any ideas?

Have you set the preferences for your email account?

Please read this wiki page: ?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Profile-and-Email-Address-and-Merging-Accounts%2C-Subscription

Set your time zone is in the same place as your editor preference.

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Be sure to save by clicking Update Preferences.

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?Frances

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Re: Stop Reply All sending to Sender AND Group?

#27981

On 20/01/2020 17:37, Richard Waller wrote:

Is there any downside to forcing HTML emails?It's a problem if the e-mail contains *only* HTML and does not contain a plain text version of the message too, but AFAIK GIO mails contain both.

Samuel

Re: Converting PDF to RTF (was: Uploading files to Groups.io)

#27980

Nobody trusts Google with their data in our group circle.? When we moved from Yahoo, many spoke up to avoid anything Google based.? Thus, GroupsIO was the lead solution to migrate into.? Google is known for it's data privacy compromises, both willingly and unwillingly. It's been documented too many times to count by CNET and other tech news sites.? Sorry, Google is not a viable option for us.

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Group Name:??Clayviille California Board of Directors?is now?Board of Directors - Clayville California

Group email:??[email protected]?is now?[email protected]Unfortunately, the subject line in email messages still comes up with the word "Board" at the end despite the sender using the email address shown above.?

[ClayvilleCaliforniaBoard]...........??

Any thoughts???

Thank you,

Maureen

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Group email:??[email protected]?is now?[email protected]

Unfortunately, the subject line in email messages still comes up with the word "Board" at the end despite the sender using the email address shown above.?