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Re: Couple Of Questions, Email And Something Else
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýJeff,I don't want to turn of notifications of new member nor when another first post needs approval.? If I disable the daily notifications will it stop those notices ? No. The Email Delivery choices only refer to normal group postings. Scroll down to the bottom of your Subscription page to see the checkboxes for Notifications and the options for Owner Email. My other question is, from what I've seen, groups.io is not in any way limited to electronics. some would like to discuss some politics, food or whatever else. Correct. As a group owner you decide what content is suitable for your group. Some of my groups are very tightly focused (my PTA group), others we talk about nearly anything (my classmate group).? So it isn't surprising that in Groups.io's directory you'll find groups on all sorts of topics: /search I mean except maybe how to overthrow the government or something like that, which I would never do. (we keep quiet about such things lol) I wouldn't do anything even slightly illegal here. Best not: Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Dividing Access with a Group
#howto
#subgroups
#split
Andrew,
?I think the only way to have them unable to use the Messages page to read messages is to not subscribe them to the group. Then you can check
Allow Non Subscribers to Post
in the Message Policies section of your group's Settings page. This will force moderation on all of their postings, a necessary precaution to keep out spam from non-subscribers. Then you would also want to select Sender or Group and Sender in the Reply To control so that member replies go back to them. Unfortunately that will also affect members' replies to each other. I don't see a way around that. The other option, if it would be acceptable for these "type 2" subscribers to see each other's messages, would be to include them in the primary group, but not in a subgroup devoted to the type 1 subscribers. The type 1 subscribers could converse privately in the subgroup, and the type 1 subscribers could answer type 2 posts in the primary group. That would be a little like the "member" versus "board" structure I have in my PTA group, where all PTA members are members of the primary group, but only the elected board members are members of the "board" subgroup. ?Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Couple Of Questions, Email And Something Else
I own a group. Now instead of constant emails I get a daily summary. Well I come here every day and check the groups I am in. I don't really need the email every day so I am thinking of turning it off. I don't want to turn of notifications of new member nor when another first post needs approval.? If I disable the daily notifications will it stop those notices ? They are really not a big problem, I just like to keep my inbox clean. So if I disable the daily mail, do I disable the notifications I should get as the owner ?
My other question is, from what I've seen, groups.io is not in any way limited to electronics. some would like to discuss some politics, food or whatever else. Anything aboout politics would of course have strict rules and have to be tightly moderated, but am I right in assuming that any topic is OK ? I mean except maybe how to overthrow the government or something like that, which I would never do. (we keep quiet about such things lol) I wouldn't do anything even slightly illegal here. So, those are my questions de jure. Thanks for your time. |
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Re: Not getting calendar reminders
I checked #cal-reminder. Nothing for this week. ¡°No Email¡± is not checked. ? It is showing up in the calendar at the correct time, there is simply no reminder in email or in the messages list. ? Note that I am having the exact same problem in 2 different groups. ? From: Shal Farley
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 12:45 PM To: GMF Subject: Re: [GMF] Not getting calendar reminders ? Shawn, ?
? ?I think it is unlikely, with Gmail, but did you check to see if they were rejected? ?
? ?If you're saying that they post to the group and arrive by email sometimes, but sometimes do neither that's different than what I was thinking. I thought you were saying that they never appeared in the group's Messages list, but did sometimes arrive by email. ?
? ?Ok, then the crucial question is whether the event is in fact repeating every two weeks. If so it should appear on the calendar this week as well as two weeks ago, and two weeks from now, etc. As it happens I have one set up like that in my test group: ? ? ?If yours is set up similarly, and does appear in the calendar every two weeks, then I don't see why its reminders shouldn't post every two weeks. ? ? A long shot would be to check the #cal-reminder entry in your group's Hashtag list, and make sure it does not have the No Email box checked. But even if that were checked, the reminder should be posted in the group's Messages page. ?Too, that should have prevented the two-weeks ago reminders from emailing also, unless the hashtag was changed sometime in between. ? Shal
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Re: Dividing Access with a Group
#howto
#subgroups
#split
Andrew Utt
Shal, Thanks for that insight on the Following Only. Our company has subscribers and then we have people who are interested in subscribing. For the people who are interested in subscribing, I don't want them to see all the subscriber messages, but if they do post, I'd like for subscribers to be able to respond. So, in the end, I want them to participate, just not have access to all of the subscriber conversations. Andrew On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:
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Re: Dividing Access with a Group
#howto
#subgroups
#split
Andrew, 2. People who can't receive all messages, but can message and receive feedback from the entire group. ?I don't know what you mean by "can't", but it sounds like these people would benefit from Following Only? in the Advanced Preferences section of their Subscription page. Does anyone have some suggestions on how to organize my group this way? You don't need to do anything special in your group settings to have some people use Following Only. But if you know that you are about to Direct Add or Invite a bunch of people who should have that setting, you can preset it for them on the Default Sub Settings tab of ?your group's Settings page. You may or may not want to leave that default in place normally. ?You can ?change existing members to use that setting, but only one at a time through their Membership page in the group's Members list. Or you can just tell them about the feature and let them adjust their own subscriptions, but they will have to log in to the site to set the Advanced Preferences. ? ?Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Not getting calendar reminders
Shawn,
?I think it is unlikely, with Gmail, but did you check to see if they were rejected? ?
?If you're saying that they post to the group and arrive by email sometimes, but sometimes do neither that's different than what I was thinking. I thought you were saying that they never appeared in the group's Messages list, but did sometimes arrive by email. ?
?Ok, then the crucial question is whether the event is in fact repeating every two weeks. If so it should appear on the calendar this week as well as two weeks ago, and two weeks from now, etc. As it happens I have one set up like that in my test group: ? ?If yours is set up similarly, and does appear in the calendar every two weeks, then I don't see why its reminders shouldn't post every two weeks. A long shot would be to check the #cal-reminder entry in your group's Hashtag list, and make sure it does not have the No Email box checked. But even if that were checked, the reminder should be posted in the group's Messages page. ?Too, that should have prevented the two-weeks ago reminders from emailing also, unless the hashtag was changed sometime in between. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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AOL mobile app ignores reply-to
Just ran into this problem and thought I'd share with the group.
One of my members uses the AOL email app on his iPhone.? He did a reply to a post and it was emailed to the sender (fortunately happened to be me), not the group. Turns out there is a reported bug in the AOL mobile apps that ignores the reply-to field in email headers.? Only happens if you use the app, works correctly using the AOL mail web site. See this article that I found ->? Toby |
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Re: Not getting calendar reminders
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýInline ? From: Shal Farley
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:02 AM To: GMF Subject: Re: [GMF] Not getting calendar reminders ? Shawn, ?
? ?I'm not sure what you mean by "the app". I assume you're talking about the calendar page of a Groups.io group. If you're talking about some other kind of calendar please be specific.? ? The groups.io website.?
? ?You mean that sometimes you receive the reminders in your email? See my prior message about checking your email delivery. ? They are not being filtered or showing up in spam, or any other of the tabs. They are not in All Mail, Deleted Items, or Spam.
? ?If the reminders do not appear in the Messages list of the group's web pages then they would not have been sent out by email either.? So that contradicts what you said about it sending them sometimes. ? I don¡¯t see how it contradicts. Sometimes it sends them, sometimes it doesn¡¯t. They are not in my email client(s) and not on the messages list this week, though it was there 2 weeks ago (it repeats every 2 weeks) ? I think you'll need to be a lot more specific about what you tried, what you observed, and where you observed it before I'll be able to give you useful advice. A screen shot of the Reminders section of the event's edit page might be very informative. It ought to look something like this: ? ? You might have more than one reminder for a given event, and would likely send one more than five minutes in advance, but that's just an example. ? Here are snippets from mine. ? Shal ?
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Re: Not getting calendar reminders
Shawn,
?I'm not sure what you mean by "the app". I assume you're talking about the calendar page of a Groups.io group. If you're talking about some other kind of calendar please be specific.? ?
?You mean that sometimes you receive the reminders in your email? See my prior message about checking your email delivery. ?
?If the reminders do not appear in the Messages list of the group's web pages then they would not have been sent out by email either.? So that contradicts what you said about it sending them sometimes. I think you'll need to be a lot more specific about what you tried, what you observed, and where you observed it before I'll be able to give you useful advice. A screen shot of the Reminders section of the event's edit page might be very informative. It ought to look something like this: You might have more than one reminder for a given event, and would likely send one more than five minutes in advance, but that's just an example. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Creating calendar events
#calendar
#groupowner
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Shawn Perry wrote:
Do I need to log in every month so reminders are sent out?I was posting to the thread that smoky_stu started (unable to create a calendar event at all). The answer to your question, though, is no...scheduled reminders should go out whether you're logged in or not. Sorry that I didn't quote enough of the context.? Regards, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
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Re: Creating calendar events
#calendar
#groupowner
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýDo I need to log in every month so reminders are sent out? ? From: Bruce Bowman
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 10:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GMF] Creating calendar events #calendar #groupowner ? I suspect that Shal is -- as usual -- on the right track. ? |
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Re: Not getting calendar reminders
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI set them up in the app. It sends them sometimes. It did not post them to either of the affected groups. ? From: Shal Farley
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 10:32 AM To: GMF Subject: Re: [GMF] Not getting calendar reminders ? Shawn, ?
? ?If you haven't already, double-check a few things?:
If the reminders didn't post to the group's page that's definitely a red flag. Either you haven't set up the reminders the way you think you have, or there's some kind of glitch. ? Gmail doesn't too often goof on spam detection, but just in case if you don't see the Spam folder in the list on the left (below Inbox, Sent Mail and Drafts) then drop the More menu. Gmail has an option to have the link to the Spam folder always visible, but I think the default is to tuck it away under More. ? Also with Gmail there's the tabbed Inbox. It is possible that the reminders were delivered to Social, Promotions, or one of the other configurable tabs. ? For rejections go to the Subscription page in the groups in question. Click on the Email Delivery History tab there and see if the reminders are listed as recent bounces. ?
? Failing the above, [email protected] ? Shal ? ? ? ? ? ?
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Re: Not getting calendar reminders
Shawn, I have calendar reminders set up for some meetings in two different groups, and they appear to be sent unreliably. ?If you haven't already, double-check a few things?:
If
the reminders didn't post to the group's page that's definitely a red
flag. Either you haven't set up the reminders the way you think you
have, or there's some kind of glitch. Gmail
doesn't too often goof on spam detection, but just in case if you don't
see the Spam folder in the list on the left (below Inbox, Sent Mail and
Drafts) then drop the More menu. Gmail has an option to have the link
to the Spam folder always visible, but I think the default is to tuck it
away under More. Also with Gmail there's the tabbed Inbox. It is possible that the reminders were delivered to Social, Promotions, or one of the other configurable tabs. For rejections go to the Subscription page in the groups in question. Click on the Email Delivery History tab there and see if the reminders are listed as recent bounces.
?Where do I post a report about this? Failing the above, [email protected] Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Creating calendar events
#calendar
#groupowner
I suspect that Shal is -- as usual -- on the right track.
Keep in mind that logins expire after 30 days, or whenever you delete your browser cookies. Regards, Bruce -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
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