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Issues turning off email

 

We have a member who says she is still receiving emails, but her subscription is set to "no emails". I suspect she is confused about which group she is receiving the emails from, but before I wade into it, I would like to know if anyone has ever had issues with turning email off.
Thanks, Marv


Re: Who "owns" a group - discussion

 

And to expand on what Dano said, it's not just on group sites that this happens. Look at all the times 'entrepeneurs' snap up domain names with the hope of being able to re-sell them at a later time to someone or some organization that would have a more compelling interest in using that internet address. Same general idea about the thinking of humans.

Dave


Re: Photo Album Ownership And Control #membership

 

Hi Don,

I see that you got no answer after 6 weeks or so. I would like to know the answer to your question. In other words, bump.

In addition I would like to know how to see who can access the Photo Albums. In Yahoo! Groups, the moderators could see the access control for any album. Where is that in Groups.io?

Regards

John Russell


Re: HELP! Hyphen in group name/URL not recognized

 

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 08:12 am, Dr. Denver Fox wrote:
BTW, I don't have this hyphen problem on my Yahoo accounts.
If the email is sent as plain text, it'll be up to your email reader to render the link (rightly or wrongly, if at all -- this is apparently what's happening to you). If the email is sent as HTML, the link will be hard-coded in (hopefully as the sender intended -- this is what happens to your mail from Yahoo).

-Don


Problem with Norton

 

I have been trying to launch a new groups.io site for our neighborhood, but while testing we got a very scary message from Norton saying the site is unsafe - identify theft. I believe the site is safe, but if I release this and people get this message, it will definitely scare them off.

I've tried reaching the groups.io developer but the support email is not working and I've tried to contact Norton, but of course am not getting a response.

Does anyone have any advice? Thanks. Pat


Re: Who "owns" a group - discussion

 

I've seen it here and I saw it on Yahoo as well where people would use similar names or even the first group name as part of the first line of the description. I have actually saved one name here in case that Yahoo group decides to move in the future, and have made that quite clear to people those who have joined it. I know of another on groups.io where I suspect that is what is happening. A lot of people established groups here well before they moved because the saw the handwriting on the wall.

It's unfortunate that your friend's group was beat out to the name by someone else, but that is somewhat the nature of people. I suspect the same thing has been done on Google groups and in other locations.

As an editorial comment, I've found that gentle guidance works much better than heavy handed moderation. I have a couple groups that occasionally wander off, but the members themselves work to bring them back on topic. I find it's more important to treat members as responsible adults, rather than children, in order to maintain respect. And unless you have respect, authority doesn't do much good in the long run. Authority can be bestowed, but too many moderators forget respect has to be earned. I consider myself more the group janitor than the owner. If you think back to grade school, who got the more respect, the principal or the janitor?

Dano

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A friend (yes, a friend, not me) decided to move his group form Y! to here. But he came to groups to find a group with the same name already here. Turns out one of the group members didn't like his management style, so he started a competing (duplicate) group here on groups. (Y! manager kept the group strictly on topic, and this person wanted the group to be able to have off-topic conversations). For this incident, my friend is working with support/mark to address the issue, and has started his own somewhat renamed group here on groups.io.

The question for GMF:

Has anyone else seen this with their groups, or with groups they are a part of?

- John


Re: 2 questions-use of 10g storage & number of subscribers

 

I have the group set up on ¡®premium¡¯ subscription which allows
me 10g storage. I have looked but can NOT find where on the
site I can see HOW MUCH of the 10g I¡¯m currently using. Can
you direct me to where I can periodically check that usage?
Harlan -
On the group page go to "Administration" and then click on "Billing". Images are the dark blue part of the bar. Files are the green part. Attachments open up on a separate page.
Dano


Re: Can transferring files be done separately? #files

 

Tammi,

Can you transfer the group without files and then later on transfer the files in?

I think so.

When you click the green "Start New Transfer" button you are given a list of checkboxes for what to transfer. You can uncheck Files.

Then when you're ready come back and uncheck everything except Files to start a second transfer.

Shal


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Who "owns" a group - discussion

 

I'm posting this incident to start a discussion here, not to solve a problem....

A friend (yes, a friend, not me) decided to move his group form Y! to here.? ? But he came to groups to find a group with the same name already here.??
Turns out one of the group members didn't like his management style, so he started a competing (duplicate) group here on groups.? ?(Y! manager kept the group strictly on topic, and this person wanted the group to be able to have off-topic conversations).
For this incident, my friend is working with support/mark to address the issue, and has started his own somewhat renamed group here on groups.io.

The question for GMF:

Has anyone else seen this with their groups, or with groups they are a part of???


- John


Re: Guidelines link

 

If you don't mind the public seeing them, you could set the Group Guidelines and/or Wiki so that they're visible without being logged in.? If you do want folks to be logged in to see them, then you should suggest on beta that the login follow through to the Group Guidelines page like Wiki does.

Duane
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Re: Can transferring files be done separately? #files

 

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You can transfer any or all, but you will have one possible problem by moving anything yourself. Anything you download off your site, and then upload to your new site, will change the ownership of those files to you. If that doesn¡¯t matter, then go for it.

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Don

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tammi McKinley, CPM
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 8:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [GMF] Can transferring files be done separately? #files #files #files

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Can you transfer the group without files and then later on transfer the files in? We are going through files to see what to get rid of and better organize them but wanted to know if we could transfer without the files, first. Otherwise we could transfer everything and then organize what¡¯s transferred. Tammi
#files


2 questions-use of 10g storage & number of subscribers

 

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Two questions regarding my [email protected] :

  1. I have the group set up on ¡®premium¡¯ subscription which allows me 10g storage.? I have looked but can NOT find where on the site I can see HOW MUCH of the 10g I¡¯m currently using.? Can you direct me to where I can periodically check that usage?
  2. I¡¯ve notice that on the splash page for [email protected] the ¡®group¡¯ number is not changing, even though I have people unsubscribing and new people being added.? It ALWAYS stays at the initial 1921 number.? The ¡®topics and last post info¡¯ DO change.

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Thanks,

Harlan

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Can transferring files be done separately? #files

 

Can you transfer the group without files and then later on transfer the files in? We are going through files to see what to get rid of and better organize them but wanted to know if we could transfer without the files, first. Otherwise we could transfer everything and then organize what¡¯s transferred. Tammi
#files


Re: HELP! Hyphen in group name/URL not recognized

Dr. Denver Fox
 

OK, I changed the email address to [email protected] which seems to have fixed the problem.? I guess I will go with that, although I would prefer PAD-CO.? Thanks


Re: Speaking of those group addresses.....

 

Yes, it is possible, although it is a configuration option for each individual owner/moderator. If they have jointly decided that they don't want to be contacted, you cannot make them accept your inquiry.?

Bruce


Guidelines link

 

I've noticed that the link (/g/GROUPNAME/guidelines) to my group's Guidelines (which is set to Private) brings us to the / homepage if a member is not logged in, hence the member needs to log in and then enter that Guidelines link, or click on the group's Guidelines tab before going to the Guidelines page.
However, the link to one of my group's wiki page (also Private) brings us to the "Log In" page /login?r=%2Fg%2FGROUPNAME%2Fwiki%2FWIKIPAGETITLE which brings us to the correct wiki page once the member has logged in. Is it reasonable to request the same behavior for the Guidelines link i.e. to go to the "Log In" page, then straight to Guidelines page once the member has logged in?

FYI, in the links above, I've replaced my group name and the wiki page title with GROUPNAME, and WIKIPAGETITLE.

Thanks.
Lily


Re: HELP! Hyphen in group name/URL not recognized

Dr. Denver Fox
 

OK - so, then, for all my future users that I will be importing, I need to change the name to PADCO as they will likely be using a variety of clients.? How would I change the name?? BTW, I don't have this hyphen problem on my Yahoo accounts.? Thanks so much!


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Duane, thanks, I?ll try that

Victoria


Re: Was my invitation accepted?

 

The online instructions at /yahootransfer?says that the transfer agent will do the transfer "within one business day." If this was changed to something more accurate it might help with the unrealistic expectations.

Bruce


Re: Symbol for priorizing titles in files

 

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Well, I tried out these symbols (*, ^, #), and they definitely don?t work in front of letters. So I?ll have to take numbers which is quite uncomfortable since I don?t want to number my hundreds of files.

Too bad¡­but thanks

Victoria

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Unfortunately, in your case, it looks like Mark did too good of a job on the sort.? I did some quick testing this morning and found that standard symbols (*, ^, #) are always first, numbers second, and letters (ignoring case) after.? I didn't find any invisible characters that stay invisible, such as Alt+0141.

Duane
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