Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
They are also going to delete a good number of other emails they probably don't want to lose. I've been using one of my email addresses everywhere on line for over twenty years, and I get a lot of
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Bill Burns
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Re: Examples of new user and moderator help
Here's are a few. I suggest you go through the step-by-step to check for accuracy. Changing Your Registered E-mail Address Go to and in the upper right corner of the site, use the
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Steve Bass
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Re: Examples of new user and moderator help
Some of this is covered in the GMF wiki, /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/home , so that might be a good starting place for ideas.? If you think the existing info is enough, you can send a
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Duane
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Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
Samuel, from my perspective, the only way to notify a list member who's been unsubbed, is to do that via a list mod's private email address, so you can have more assurance they'll actually get
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Patty Sliney
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Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
You're right.? All/most Groups.io message would continue to go into the Spam folder until that member told their email program/ISP Groups.io emails are NOT Spam (by going into their Spam folder, and
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Patty Sliney
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Re: Examples of new user and moderator help
Thanks Frances, The welcome letter is step one. I guess I'm trying to get to task oriented "stuff" after someone joins the group - like "how to add a photo" or "how to reply to a topic (by email or
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Beth Weld
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Re: Hiding files from other than moderators
#question
This may be the simplest answer to the issue. ?If when uploading a file/database there was an "Access" option so you could click Members, Moderators, or Owners then that file would only be visible to
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Tom Vail
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Re: Examples of new user and moderator help
Hi There are two examples of welcome messages. /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Welcome-Message-for-Yahoo-Group-transfer This is part of broader advice:
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Frances
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Examples of new user and moderator help
I'm getting ready to move a group of mainly non-technical members to GIO, and before I try to develop some help documentation, I thought I would ask what others have done.? I'm sure that some of you
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Beth Weld
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Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
Oh, okay. Well, my opinion (which I think is shared by some others here) is that "informing the member" should be a two-pronged approach: send them a message with re-activation instructions (for in
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Samuel Murray
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Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
Gerald, [voice="Nomad"] Non-sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated. [/voice] "The Changeling", Star Trek TOS. https://youtu.be/C_R5fK73Eaw -- Help: /static/help More Help:
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Shal Farley
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Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
Do we know any spammers? What do they do? They make a living by minimizing being flagged as spammers. By spammers, I am not (necessarily) referring to the really nefarious ones. For example, it is
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Gerald Boutin <groupsio@...>
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#12121
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Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
We agree that it is desirable for subscribers/members not to become unexpected unsubscribed and for Groups.io's reputation to improve. The differences on how to achieve this are either philosophical
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Michael Pavan
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Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
Patty, Very simple. You gave as part of your criticism of the FBL mechanism that the people removed weren't spammers, they were members. You said it twice, so I took that to be a serious part of you
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Shal Farley
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Re: Hiding files from other than moderators
#question
I'd like to have the ability to restrict a database to only owners. Right now we use google docs to keep our main member database. That database has information that we would only want the highest
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Nancy Funk
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Re: members being removed
Amen! Cacky
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Cacky B
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Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
Don't understand how I have the cart before the horse, here.? We may be wrangling with semantics, here, but the end result (whether we say the action is telling groups.io the list member doesn't want
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Patty Sliney
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Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
There is no groups.io staff to do what you want. I would rather have Mark doing technical things than documentation things. We in GMF can do the latter...if we're willing to. I hire others to do
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Bruce
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Re: How best to educate about the 'Removed for SPAM' problem
This points out that some subscribers/members recognize that it is easier to unsubscribe by mis-marking Groups.io messages as SPAM, than to find and go through the unsubscribe process
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Michael Pavan
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Re: New to Groups.io
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Thanks so very much everyone. You are wonderful!! I will read up and give it a go.? It sounds like it will be the best option for us. Wish me luck Humbly yours, Pamela
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Pamela Tatt
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