Thanks to Bart and Duane for the work arounds.

The issue is forwarding old emails, ones that have probably been deleted on a personal computer years ago.

Where is the wishlist to add features — or do I just use the Beta list?

Sharon

On Oct 25, 2018, at 12:56 AM, Bart Fried <oldscope@...> wrote:

In the Admin | settings | message policies, set for Allow Members to Download Archives. Then SAVE. This should show a button at the top of the Topics/Messages list to Export Group Data. That gives a menu of items to export.

Thank you for responding. This allows people to download all the files in categories — messages, files, etc. I love this feature when I’m doing research, but I’m not sure I want anyone to be able to do that. And with an archive of 60,000 messages, almost no one wants to.

The need is to be able to print, save, or forward one message. Or even a group of messages as the result of a search. It appears that this is only available with copy and paste.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC

"Nothing exists without order. Nothing comes into existence without chaos."

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:36 PM, Sharon Villines wrote:

There seems to be no way to print, forward, or save messages from the archives.

Other than exporting, as Bart said, there are no functions like that on the site.? Some of those, particularly forwarding and moving between group/subgroup have been discussed on beta, but no changes have been made recently.? I don't know if there will ever be a way to move between groups since that could get quite complicated as far as programming.? Another option that has been discussed is to be able to email yourself a copy of a message from the archive.

The simplest way to perform those actions is to use the copy you get in your email to forward or save.? If you really want it moved, you could delete it from the original location after putting it where you want it.

Duane
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:36 PM, Sharon Villines wrote:

tolerance for messages being called topics, and then topics being defined as messages, expanded, and polls is very low.

What you see shown in the drop down depends on how you get there.? If you get there from the group's home page or the Your Groups list at the top, the view will be the same as it was last time you were there, either Topics, Messages, Expanded, or Polls.? The site remembers the view that you used last.? The exception to this is if you use the overview page of all your groups.? When you click on a group name there, it always goes to the Topic view and that becomes the new default.

Topics lists by topic/subject header
Messages show them by individual messages with one line of the content shown
Expanded shows them individually with full content of each message
Polls would show only any polls that exist.

If a person has a preference that they always want to use, they could create a bookmark while viewing the page the way they want it. then use that to go to the group.
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You will find previous discussions, as well as wiki information, have covered all of this.? These options have been pretty much the same for at least a couple of years, so I doubt any changes are planned.

Duane
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Why does the messages list, which you access as “messages” in the menu, say “topics”. The list is not of topics but of individual messages.

Someone would have to search a specific topic to have a list of the messages under that topic, right?

The drop down “Topics” menu then says Messages, Expanded, and Polls. No topics.

I’m trying to bring more of our members into moderating and more importantly encouraging members to use more of the features. When I run into these less than intuitive features, they decide not to. The tolerance for messages being called topics, and then topics being defined as messages, expanded, and polls is very low.

Has this been discussed? Are changes planned?

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Historic Takoma Park
In Washington DC, Where all roads lead to Casablanca

There seems to be no way to print, forward, or save messages from the archives. Am I missing something?

We often move messages between lists by forwarding them, and send them to ourselves to become part of report. This is important.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
[email protected]
"Neighbors Talking to Neighbors”
Takoma Park DC and MD

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 07:05 PM, Bart Fried wrote:

Thanks, I see that. While editing a topic is certainly nice, we have several thousand topics so modifying them one by one is of course very cumbersome.?

Understood. In turn, please understand that I had no way of knowing that you would be aware of this option.

Hopefully down the road it can be added.

Please consider posting this as a suggestion to the groups.io "suggestion box" at??. No one affiliated with groups.io monitors GMF...we are just a collection of group owners -- like you -- doing the best we can to help each other.

Regards,
Bruce?
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:35 PM, Anita Goldstein wrote:

I have paid the $10 and in researching the function I see this line:

"You can append?digest,?summary, or?nomail, to the end of a line to specify either digest delivery, a daily summary or that no email be sent."

It's not clear to me how or where I enter this information.

There is a box to enter the email addresses, one per line. You do just what it says...put one of those keywords after each entry.

e.g.:

{start box} --------------------------------
thisname(at)domain1.org digest
Display Name <thatname(at)domain2.com> nomail
theothername(at)domain3.net summary
{end box}?--------------------------------

If you just enter the email addresses and let the Default Sub Setting (see Admin>Settings and click the corresponding button at the top) determine their email delivery, I frankly think that's best. If a given subscriber subsequently decides that (s)he doesn't like the group default and wants to change to something else, there's nothing keeping them from doing that.

Regards,
Bruce
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Dave,
You don't need an Enterprise account or your own domain.? The domain mail forwarding is just a "nice to have".
A Google group is your best bet.? A?separate groups.io group for board would still not allow external email to flow in unmoderated.? You really want to have external email filtered/moderated or somehow controlled to avoid/reduce spam.? The Google group will do spam filtering and notify you when it's detected.? As long as it looks like legitimate email, it should come in.
Toby

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 02:04 PM, Bart Fried wrote:

As an example, if I could do a search on a keyword "xyz" and get a few hundred posts, is there a way to bulk add the hashtag #xyz?

Owners (and Moderators with "edit archives" permissions) can edit a Topic to incorporate a hashtag into the subject line.

At this time the same cannot be done with search hits.

Regards,
Bruce
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 02:16 PM, Stephanie Guerlain wrote:

the migration feature which in one and a half months never took place. So I paid the $9 subscription fee so that I could Direct Add and now it won't let me do it as I have 250 names to add

At what point in the transfer process did your migration get stuck?? Did you check the transfer page for status updates?? Many folks have later realized they either skipped a step, didn't continue far enough, or did something before they should have.

The delay is usually a one time thing, as mentioned.? Just add all 250 names at once and wait for an approval.? It doesn't only approve 20 at a time.

You can reduce your frustration level by searching and reading some of the previous posts on this group, as well as reading through the Wiki pages on various subjects.

Duane
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No, unfortunately there's not a bulk "add hashtag".? I think this has been requested on the beta group, the site suggestion box.? You could bump the suggestion if you find it, or start a new topic about it.

Duane
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This is ridiculous. I am moving my group from Yahoo groups and tried the migration feature which in one and a half months never took place. So I paid the $9 subscription fee so that I could Direct Add and now it won't let me do it as I have 250 names to add. How on earth do I get this group migrated. This is so FRUSTRATING. I don't want to just add 20 people/day. that would take a month to get everyone added!!! What's the point of automation if we can't automate tasks.?

Received from Bruce Bowman at 10/22/2018 11:58 PM UTC:

With the proper group settings, it is possible to disable hashtags entirely. As long as both extremes are still available to us, I'm trying my best to tolerate them. :-)

That's my take on it.

Using a new car as an analogy, I don't need to fully understand all the details of every system setting and option in order to drive my new car home from the dealer... or to the grocery store and back... or even across the country and back.

But if my new car kills the engine every 30 days until I contact the dealer for a link to restart it, that's another matter. ;-)

Jim H

I have paid the $10 and in researching the function I see this line: