On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:48 AM, Duane wrote:

No, that was changed about a year ago.

This is the drop-down that shows up under my test account (which is set to Moderator) when clicking on a member.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:43 AM, Sandy V wrote:

If someone has the permission "Set Moderator Privileges," I believe that person can make someone, including themselves, owner.

I found this exceedingly hard to believe so I checked - and it's true. "Set Moderator Privileges" sounds pretty innocuous compared to what it actually allows. It should be labeled more strongly, like "Set any subscriber to member, moderator, or owner" or some such thing.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:43 AM, Sandy V wrote:

If someone has the permission "Set Moderator Privileges," I believe that person can make someone, including themselves, owner.

No, that was changed about a year ago.

Duane
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It?was only?after a member, who had no business writing what she did to my group, told the group that?Groups IO will be charging groups?with over 100 members and she was leaving and going over to MeWe and then gave the link to her new group that I had to say something to my groups because many of them were in panic mode. I?was getting mail from them asking me if I knew what was happening and if I heard such a thing. So rather then write everyone individually?who was inquiring I ended up saying something to my groups. ? ? What she left out was it was for "newly created groups after Jan 18th" and my groups and every other group in existence right now would be grandfathered in. ? Leeni ? ? ??? ? ? ? ?

If someone has the permission "Set Moderator Privileges," I believe that person can make someone, including themselves, owner. This happened in our group but I don't know if it's been changed since then.
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:06 AM, Marina wrote:

if the moderators of a group with only one owner have been given all permissions, do you really need to appoint a second owner? Should the (only) owner pass away, moderators would be able to continue the group, am I right?

Probably.? If there's at least one moderator with all permissions, the moderator(s) should be able to do anything except create an owner or delete the group.

Duane
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Thanks. I’ll stop trying to make it so.?

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There's a thread over on beta about group members finding out about potential per-member pricing changes from their group owner and leaving GIO as a result. My position had been that I wouldn't say anything about this unless I knew specifically how and when my members would be impacted by pricing changes. But now it seems that people are hearing about the pricing discussion through the grapevine - without context or clear understanding, of course - so I'm forced to consider whether to pre-emptively issue some kind of reassurance.?

Anyone else noodling about this?

Pete

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:06 AM, Peter Cook wrote:

I thought it was possible to make the message archive public but either that option has been removed or my memory is faulty.

Once the archives are made private, they can't be returned to public.? It's a one way street.

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Sorry, I remember a thread about this, but I couldn't find it in the archives:
if the moderators of a group with only one owner have been given all permissions, do you really need to appoint a second owner? Should the (only) owner pass away, moderators would be able to continue the group, am I right?

Marina

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:56 AM, Bruce Petrarca wrote:

Is there some setting to make photos publicly viewable??

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No - only the calendar and wiki can be made public. (I thought it was possible to make the message archive public but either that option has been removed or my memory is faulty.

I had to get around this for a certain set of photos by using a google photo album?and putting a link to it on our main page.

Pete

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 08:56 AM, Bruce Petrarca wrote:

Is there some setting to make photos publicly viewable?

No.? The only photo that can be seen by the public is the group cover photo.? For any others, they must be a member.

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Is there some setting to make photos publicly viewable??

PS. The example I cited has the advantage of not asking the family for actual access to their loved one's email account, nor does it require them to log into his account and promote someone, which they might find onerous or feel is somehow risky.

Pete

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 08:01 AM, Barry Porter KB1PA wrote:

how do I get rid of the icons on the bottom and get back the menus ob the left side?

You could try using your device in landscape mode, but the only sure way is to use a computer with a large browser window.

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That's exactly what I did. It's really your only option.

Our 1000-plus member Yahoo group lost our owner 4 years prior to the Yahoo exodus. I asked questions in the group about him and where he lived. I then paid for Whitepages Premium to find his address info and called his surviving spouse who, fortunately, responded to my voicemail. Her daughter got involved and found the owner's group password. She helped us get it reset so I could log in as him. I immediately added 2 more owners and that was all we needed. I sent them a popular restaurant gift card for their trouble.

Good luck!
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:32 AM, Peter Cook wrote:

access to any group of this the owner was a member.

I meant, "to any group of?which the owner was a member."

This happened in a group of which I'm a member. After making arrangements with the late owner's family, the moderator went to groups.io/login > Email me a link to log in and entered the owner's email address. When the link arrived at the owner's email inbox, the family forwarded it to the moderator and he was able to log in as the owner.?

Note that this is done at the account level, so the moderator would now have access to any group of this the owner was a member.

Pete

Annie, are you saying that the Messages and New Topic links are missing from the left-hand menu?

Problem resolved. iOS gMail was not syncing. I rebooted my iPad and the posts were sent.