On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 05:17 pm, Group Moderator wrote:

1) How can you change the subject line of a rejected post? (so it doesn't say "Your message was rejected" but something more gentle).?

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On the Settings page, click on Member Notices.? Then click on a Rejected Message type, if you have any.? If not, click +New Notice at the bottom of the list and create one.? On the notice, you can specify the Subject of the email that is sent, along with any content that should be included.? If you want to use it by default, you need to click the Active box before saving.? (The Name box is for your use so you can tell which is which when you have more than one of the same type notice.)

Duane

Mindy,

1) How can you change the subject line of a rejected post? (so it
doesn't say "Your message was rejected" but something more gentle).

I wish you could. I could have sworn I'd requested it in beta, but maybe I've just thought of it so many times.

What I do as a work-around is use Send Message instead, and if appropriate just Delete the pending message.

The disadvantage is that it doesn't act as a Reply (that's a suggestion I've been intending to post in beta) so if you want to quote the member's post you have to copy it first, then click Send Message, paste it in the body, and mark it as a quote. A bit of a pain.

3) The daily digest on io is very short, I am getting several a day.
It says "up to 12 messages" but these have fewer messages in each (on
average 7).

Are you looking at the list at the top of the digest? That is a list of topic headings. If a topic has a number in parenthesis on it then it contains more than one message. Add those up, including the implicit (1) for topics with a single message.

If that doesn't equal 12, and if this isn't the last Digest you received that day for that group, then that would seem to be a bug to report to support.

Is there a way to set how many new messages it has?

No.

5) When a message is received, it shows as sent to the group, as well
as CC'ed to the group.

Odd, I'm not seeing that in my email client (Thunderbird) nor in Gmail's web interface. I'm not sure what's going on there.

Shal

At present, there's no way to change that other than having the original person create an album and upload them.? I don't see anything about this on the TODO list, so you might suggest it on

Duane

Ah, at least I'm not as nuts as I thought!
Thank you!
Ginny

We have a lot of Photo Albums in our group, and these were set up by members when we were on YG. I've noticed going through many of the albums, and looking at some of the pictures in those albums, at the bottom of the picture it displays my name (Owner/Moderator) instead of the person that really put those pictures in the album to begin with. How can I get the rightful ownership of those albums and pictures back to their owners?

Don

Dotty,

I would particularly like to see a link to Group Home.

Mark may have been too clever by half. The group's email address appears in the Digest header and the footer, and it is a link - to the group's home page. That leaves:

Contact Group Owner
Terms Of Service

I agree that not having those seems like an oversight. I encourage you to suggest them in the beta group.


Shal

Hi everyone,
As "duh" as this sounds, could someone definitively explain how the Special Notice option works? I know how to do it - I'm just confused about how it is delivered. I thought it was to deliver to everyone, regardless of delivery option, other than those with "No Email". The purpose being, I thought, was to not only to immediately deliver the note that is the Special Notice to those receiving individual emails but also to those on digest option, so as to avoid the "digest delay".

Now I'm hearing rumors that that is not how it works.

Help?
Thanks much,
Ginny

I've noticed that there is a set of links available at the bottom of Individual messages from groups.io, that do not appear at the bottom of Digest messages.?

The Individual messages have the standard reply options (View/Reply online, Reply to Group, Reply to Sender, Mute this Topic, New Topic).? Then below that, there are the additional options (Change Subscription, Group Home, Contact Group Owner, Terms of Service, Unsubscribe).?

When messages are received in Digest form, there are the standard reply options listed under each message.? But the additional options available in Individual form, are not shown below the final message in the Digest.? There does appear at the very top of the Digest, the link to Change Subscription.? And at the very bottom, a link to Unsubscribe.?

I think the additional options should be added to the bottom of the Digest form, as they could be useful to any subscribers, regardless of their choice of message delivery.
I would particularly like to see a link to Group Home.? I keep getting questions from my "older" members (I'm one of them), who aren't sure how to get to the website to view photos or files that are mentioned in their email messages.? They were used to clicking on the thumbnails in the Y!Group Update messages that told them photos had been added.? (One of the few things about Y! that I miss.? That, and the options for reorganizing photos.? But I understand those things are perhaps on the ToDo list.)

I checked the settings for my group, to make sure there was nothing i could change.? I also have a couple of test subscriptions so that I can see messages as non-owners are seeing them, both on Individual and Digest delivery.? Am I missing something?

Dotty

Leroy

Thank You

Joe

Sharon,

1. Archives — How long are messages in the archives preserved?

Indefinitely. As long as Groups.io remains in business I think.

2. Subscription Options -- I want to be able to send special notices
that are delivered to everyone immediately no matter what their
subscription options are.

There's a "Disable No Email" group option so that members would have to select at least Special Notices. Of course, you can't be sure that members look at their inbox, or don't have a mail filter, etc.

3. Subscription Options — who can send special notices? Everyone,
moderators, subscribers?

Moderators.

4. Group Settings — Under Group settings the icons are confusing:

And pretty much meaningless. I think they were originally intended to match the option - as the reverse arrow suggests "reply". But Mark soon ran out of icons, and/or imagination.

5. Subgrouos — Can main group members send messages to a subgroup If
they are not a subscriber to it?

Optional, sort-of.

Subgroups have the "Allow Non Subscribers to Post" option just like primary groups, but it works the same - allows anyone (general public) to post (all such postings are moderated). I've asked for a subgroup setting to specifically allow primary group members to post unmoderated, but it was a side conversation under a different topic. So perhaps it should be raised again in a topic of its own.

6. Time Stamps — Several members of our Tech Pod were going through
all the settings and joining and approving members, etc. We notices
that the time stamps were different on the same messages. Shouldn’t
those all be the same ...

No. Each member sees times expressed in their own time zone, per their Account setting.

Shal

Sharon,

Which raises another question —I’m assuming people can have different
subscription options on subgroups?

Yes. Different Profile information too if they want. And of course you can also give them different posting privileges.

Shal

Mike,

... And I changed the "Welcome" statement by asking them ...
...
I would much prefer to get this message to the new applicant BEFORE he
joins the group, not after.

Instead of asking in your Welcome message, you could create a "Pending Subscription" member notice. That will be sent when they apply for membership. Then you can leave their application pending until you get their reply.
/static/help#membernotices

Shal

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Leroy

On Feb 3, 2018, at 1:24 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:

Unless you specify NOT to copy the Y!Group's membership, each (non-bouncing) email in the Y!Group will be added to the subgroup, AND to the primary group if not already a primary group member.

Those in the subgroup who don’t want messages from the main group could go nomail just on the main group.

Which raises another question —I’m assuming people can have different subscription options on subgroups?

Sharon
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