On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 10:11 AM, Annie Green wrote:

Two of my members have a red square box with a B in it and a message saying they are blocked and no way to unblock them.? I never blocked them to begin with?

Are you sure the red B says blocked? Probably bounced??
I assume this is in the Members list in Admin?

See?/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/additional-information/member-badges-and-topic-icons

See this on bouncing:?/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/additional-information/groups-io-bounce-handling

This is on bouncing from the Members' help:
/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/understanding-groups-io-accounts/handling-a-bouncing-account

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On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 10:11 AM, Annie Green wrote:

Two of my members have a red square box with a B in it and a message saying they are blocked and no way to unblock them.

They are not "blocked." Their email addresses are bouncing.

/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-members/checking-for-bouncing-members?

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Two of my members have a red square box with a B in it and a message saying they are blocked and no way to unblock them.? I never blocked them to begin with?

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Is there a way to embed html code within a message so that it would show a video frame
For instance, this is a couple of seconds of a skunk visiting our pool?


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On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 08:59 PM, Dan Tucker wrote:

I don't see anything or any way in the Owners Manual to 'identify' anyone differently than anyone else - like a certain color for their listing, or a symbol - not unlike the different Notices can be marked.
Aside from coming up with some cumbersome appendage (member name.ret; member.name.active; member.name.spouse (or survivor); member.name.assoc) does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

It's not like 'subgroups'

You can do something with their display name. See?/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-members/adding-or-updating-members-display-names

You could also create a database, file, or wiki.

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I manage a group of firefighters. It all started out as 'retiree's only'. But then we recognized that some of our retiree's have died and it's actually the retiree spouse (or significant other) who is actively the current member. And then re figured out that the current, active firefighters will become retiree's, but if we 'capture them' before they retire, they are already on our rolls - if we don't, and they don't seek us out, they could be 'lost.' And then there are 'friends of the family' (with the fire service as a whole really the family) - they would be associated who have been interactive with us in one form or another for entire careers.

I don't see anything or any way in the Owners Manual to 'identify' anyone differently than anyone else - like a certain color for their listing, or a symbol - not unlike the different Notices can be marked.
Aside from coming up with some cumbersome appendage (member name.ret; member.name.active; member.name.spouse (or survivor); member.name.assoc) does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

It's not like 'subgroups' because, while we could do some of that, they are all part of the main group. I'm just looking to clearly differentiate them so others would know where they fit.

Thanks for looking and considering.

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>>> In that case I don't see what the problem is. If you want to reply to an individual email, you click "reply" in your e-mail-interface-thingy. What would you need a link for?

It probably is because you're on digest and the footers are probably different there, but in the individual messages setting, if the group ReplyTo setting is set to the group (as the default is), if you click on the email client's Reply button you'll reply to the group, so in order to be able to easily reply to the sender from an email client, you can go to the message footers and click an included "Reply To Sender" link.? But that link though is only there on the HTML version of the footers, not the plain text only, and that's what started all of this.

Look at the attached to see the difference in HTML vs PlainText footers an individual messages user gets in their email client, which depends on group message formatting settings.
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Cheers,
Christos

Christos . . .

On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:05:33 -0400, "Christos Psarras" <christos@...>
wrote:

I just tried it in a test group and it worked fine, feel free to email me offlist what you tried and I can try it and see what happens.

I just renamed it to my full name and the word test after it and it worked.

Thanks!

Donald



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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP

Frances . . .

On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:52:07 -0700, "Frances" <frances@...> wrote:

You can also delete the group. Of course you may not want to if you have many legacy features.
/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/deleting-a-group

Yes, it is a legacy basic group, and I want to re-purpose it. I just haven't
decided on which purpose yet.

I cleaned out the members list with a simple mass removal after sending out a
message. Most people already had moved to the other group. I forgot about it
until someone joined and asked a question. That reminded me it was still there
and that I should do something.

Donald KX8K



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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP

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Donald,

>>> I tried a few times to rename a group but failed.

I just tried it in a test group and it worked fine, feel free to email me offlist what you tried and I can try it and see what happens.

Are you copying and pasting when you're trying this?? Maybe some character like a TAB gets pasted along the text, or possibly extra spaces or something?? Have you tried something simple instead of strange, like maybe just adding 1234xyz at the end of the current name (making sure it's not overly long)

/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/customizing-group-settings/general-settings
/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/renaming-groups/renaming-a-group

>>> I also want to know how to "clean out" the membership list so we don't have any.? Any tips beyond the users guide would be appreciated.

By this I assume you want to remove everyone but you and possibly 1-2 other folks from the old group.? No trick to it really, same thing you do for any group, live or not, you just go to Admin->Members and start selecting folks, clicking on Actions,? and "Remove".?

You can streamline the process by first going to your main account settings first (upper right) and set ItemsPerPage in Preferences to 200.? Then open the memberlist and check the SelectAll checkbox to select everyone in the screen, then scan the list first to uncheck the folks you want to keep, then Actions-Remove.? Rinse and repeat until done.? Then go back and reset ItemPerPage to what you had before, don't leave it at 200 because it makes page loading slower for you and probably cause more overhead per page loading (not sure on this last one though)? I personally use 50 for everyday reading/browsing and switch to 100 or 200 for admin work.

Cheers,
Christos

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 03:28 PM, Donald Hellen wrote:

The group is no longer needed because it has been replaced by another one. We
basically directed all members to join the bigger group. For now, I took it off
the public listing of groups and made it announcement only.

You can also delete the group. Of course you may not want to if you have many legacy features.
/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/deleting-a-group

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On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 03:28 PM, Donald Hellen wrote:

I also want to know how to "clean out" the membership list so we don't have any.
Any tips beyond the users guide would be appreciated.

Here's a link to group renaming help: ??/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/renaming-groups
I believe that the tech writer used the GMF wiki content for this - but in case not: ?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/8127

Removing members: ?/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/managing-members/removing-members

Frances

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I tried a few times to rename a group but failed.

I got an "invalid" address for the group even when I picked a strange temporary
address.

Can someone point me to the correct part of the user guide on how to do this? I
also understand doing this can be tricky to get it to work.

The group is no longer needed because it has been replaced by another one. We
basically directed all members to join the bigger group. For now, I took it off
the public listing of groups and made it announcement only.

I also want to know how to "clean out" the membership list so we don't have any.
Any tips beyond the users guide would be appreciated.

Donald



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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:27 PM, Christos Psarras wrote:

Oh, sorry, I should have made it clear I'm referring to users who get
individual emails, and who also want to reply to the sender using their
email client (as the HTML footer link does), not by going online

In that case I don't see what the problem is. If you want to reply to an individual email, you click "reply" in your e-mail-interface-thingy. What would you need a link for?

groetjes/?is, Ronaldo

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:21 PM, Bob Bellizzi wrote:

I can't seem to find the switches to allow the public to view the archive

If it's set to Private, you can't change it back to public.? Otherwise it's part of Settings > Privacy > Visibility.

Duane
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I can't seem to find the switches to allow the public to view the archive even though i've set the group to Announcement
Can anyone help?
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Oh, sorry, I should have made it clear I'm referring to users who get individual emails, and who also want to reply to the sender using their email client (as the HTML footer link does), not by going online and doing it that way like what you're doing.

Cheers,
Christos

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>>> ... for example:

LOL, forgot that if I include the footers with the begin & end delimiters inside the message they get removed, duhh ... but in the example below they were

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group.
View/Reply Online (#289):
Mute This Topic: /mt/907....492
Group Owner: [email protected]
Unsubscribe: [ch...@..]
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Cheers,
Christos

Hmm, I retested just to make sure I didn't miss something and no, it doesn't adjust the body to HTML'ed plain text, and the footer sent is identical to the one sent if only the Plain Text option was checked.? As a matter of fact, having both checked or just PlainText checked only results in the same exact text-formatted message body & footers, for example:

*BOLD variable-width Text*

Fixed-width Text

Bye.



.

So apparently it's missing the "two flags" combo then and sends only the plain-text version of both the body and footers.

Cheers,
Christos

On 2022-04-26 21:42, Duane via groups.io wrote:

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 05:57 PM, Christos Psarras wrote:

Maybe it's wording but only one of those should be allowed to be selected at a time

I believe both are allowed intentionally.? Folks wanted Plain Text Only groups, but wanted Reply To Sender in the footer.? (Normalize html was added later to accomplish about the same thing.)? When both are checked, it's supposed to convert incoming to plain text, but send as html, so the html type footer gets used.? If that's not what it does, then there's a problem.

Duane
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:07 PM, Christos Psarras wrote:

Hi folks,

I don't remember this option going away but I just noticed it today when I got
a text-based email

I'm not sure what you mean. At the bottom of the message I see a "reply to this message" link. Once I clicked it (and maybe composed an answer), I can click "private" on the lower right and then send the message by clicking on the lower left button. [but then I am on digest]

groetjes/?is, Ronaldo