On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 12:19 PM, Nivard Ovington wrote:

The instructions to join and post are very simple, so why accept non member
posts at all

A useful suggestion but after setting one's group to not accept non-member posts
how then do potential new members contact one's group to request joining?

Just curious . . . .

Paul M.
CostaRicaLiving

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The simplest remedy is to stop accepting non member posts, I see none at all in my various groups

The instructions to join and post are very simple, so why accept non member posts at all?

As to reporting spam, IMHO its a complete waste of time

Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)

Hi,

I tend to agree. Spammers are a dime a dozen. As soon as one is shut down, three more take its place. Also, the Email addresses they're using are either entirely bogus or belong to real people/companies that have no idea their addresses are being used this way. Blocking spam based on origin Email address is a losing game before you ever get started, as they can be harvested or generated by the billions.

Jayson

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My groups have been getting a lot of nonmember spam not related to the group. How do I report this? The messages are rejected, but I would like to report this SPAM.

Start with this address: {redacted by Moderator}

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Well, this is correct, if she has a moderator of another group, the premium subscriber will not be allowed to change the email address. Which is why I had to have Mark help me change one of my friends email addresses.

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:20:21 -0800, "Cathy Howard via groups.io"
<howardc414@...> wrote:

Please correct this glitch as this is a confusing error!

Cathy,

This is a user to user help group, a group of users who help each
other address problems, whenever we can help. We are not part of
groups.io technical staff, so we can't do anything to fix bugs in the
groups.io code.

You, however, can get groups.io management's attention by posting in
the beta group, where bugs can get addressed. You will need to post
your problem in the beta group with the tag #bug in the subject line.
You can also make suggestions there but instead use the tag
#suggestion in the subject line.

There is also a list of hashtags on the main page of the beta group,
where you can also opt to join that group:



You will most likely only use the two hashtags above but the entire
list is there. If you want something addressed, you need to take the
initiative to document your bug and explain it so the groups.io
technical support people can validate, test, and fix the problem.
Other members may test your problem in their groups to verify it's
reproducible. Posting in this GMF group is a good first step, though,
just to make sure it's not something you are overlooking.


Donald



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Our group (Santa Cruz Mountains Trails Association)changed a hike from Dec 1 to January 5. The correction appeared correctly on the calendar; however a remibder for the incorrect hike was sent out anyways by groups.io. Please correct this glitch as this is a confusing error!

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Do you know I would send this to Mark and ask him to investigate this. I know he hasn't talked about hiring anybody. But perhaps he's applied to your group with an address. Which is his domain.

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Someone just filled out my congregation's online visitor form and gave their email address as [initials]@groups.io
Is that an email address a person could have? Or would using it end up sending our church email to a groups.io group?

For a real email account, no, unless they owned/have access to the Groups.io domain and its mail server. But practically, anyone could start a new group for just themselves and give out that address, and the emails will end up being posted to the group archives, provided that group was setup to accept non-member posts, otherwise they would be rejected.

Have you tried going to that group address to see what info is shown on its home is provided? If you're online and logged in, you can click on Find or Create a group link on the blue bar uptop and search for the [initials] part of the address they used, but they may have it as not-listed in the directory so better yet, substitute it in here, /g/[initials] then copy and paste that into your browser.

If it errors out then that was a bogus email address, no clue why they gave that address specifically, could had been anything for that matter if the intent was to give a fake address.

If that group exists, what does it show? How many members, what are the Group Settings, etc.

Cheers,
Christos

?If you are getting emails about pending messages, try to log in with that email where the messages are addressed to. And you can approve / moderate messages by email.

Frances
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