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Re: Creating an alias
Mike Cohen
Shal, When I search [email protected] for "", I only get two members. Any suggestions for how others could be searched and deleted? Mike On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 8:59 PM Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:
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Re: Creating an alias
Mike,
Same answer as before. The affected people already logged into Groups.io using their Winlink address, or they used the +subscribe email address From their Winlink address to create a membership in your group (or some other group). Either of those actions creates a Groups.io account with that as its primary address (meaning it logs in using that address). Either way, the Groups.io account which logs in using that Winlink address must be deleted before the address is free to be used as an Alias for another account. There cannot be two accounts claiming the same email address. 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: Change members email address
Lavon, Can I as an owner/moderator change a members email address for them as requested??? No, To properly maintain their subscription they must do that through their Account page. They could join again (or you could Invite/Add them) under their new address, but that would be a new subscription -- a whole new person as far as Groups.io is concerned. Then you could remove their old address from your Members list. 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: email address from sender
Michael, I note that at one place it says that the email address of the sender of a message will be readable by all members who receive postings and notifications via email. This is correct. It shows in the From field of the message. Depending on your email interface you may have to "Show Details" or something like that to see the actual address rather than just the Display part, but the address is there in the field. This is completely normal for email lists. That seems to undermine the privacy concepts that are embodied in such features as having a single email address to deliver postings to all the members... That's not a privacy concept. It is a functionality concept - an email list offers a way to correspond with hundreds or thousands of list members with a single email message; something that can't usually be done with the BCC field of your email interface (you're normally limited in the number of addresses you can send to in one message). List services also typically offer storage of messages (an archive) so that they can be read later by new list members. and it undermines the concept of Muting in general since a bad player who doesn't like a given posting has the information necessary to attact the posting member's email account directly. Muting in Groups.io doesn't mean that. It lets you stop receiving messages in given topics or hashtags, but not (so far) from specific list members. If you want to block an individual you can still do that in your email interface -- which you wouldn't be able to do if that member's address wasn't in the From field. Surely it would be a better idea for the posting to be shown as FROM Group io so that the posting member's email address is not exposed. There were extensive discussions in the (Suggestion box) on the topic of having Anonymous groups which would work that way. But it has not been implemented (and does not seem to be a priority). Here are some topics that mention it: ? ?Doesn't that make sense?? Why does is it not done that way? It makes sense for some use cases. In many use cases though the ability to contact group members off-list by way of their (exposed) email address is considered an advantage. Some groups, such as Freecycle/Freegle style groups, default their Replies to the sender, because the posting is basically a classified ad, and the people who want give or take the object make those arrangements off-list. In my classmates groups we all know each other IRL and exposing our email addresses among us is not a concern - contact with each other is why we have an email list at all. It isn't done that way because that's not what an email list is. I would argue that use cases that require privacy at the level of not even exposing an email address are likely use cases that would find a better home using a web forum or some other means of communication. 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: Customizing home page
Larry, Being brand new to groups, I was curious to see if there is a way to customize the he page. ? There are the controls in the General section of the group's Settings page that Frances mentioned. They add information to the group's home page. Except the Group Email Address, you don't want to change that unless you really want/need to. Then the Cover Photo tab lets you add a Cover Photo and an Icon. If your group is on the Enterprise plan there is the Fully customizable home page feature. I don't have any Enterprise groups so I'm not sure what capabilities that gives you. 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: member approved by accident
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 05:58 PM, Su wrote:
I'm assuming there's not a way to put him back to unapproved...You can open his user record and click the red Remove button at the bottom of the page. To get him back to Pending, he would then have to send a new subscription request. There is no way that you can move him back into Pending status yourself.? Or you can just wait until you get the information you need and send him an Invite. Hope this helps, Bruce -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
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Re: suddenly many yahoo.com members are bouncing, but not all of them
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Shal, ? I have several members who started being blocked on March 8, while over 200 Yahoo addresses are not bouncing. All of the bouncing members have
the error ? It seems odd that the bouncing started on the same day for the same reason. ? Ken ? ¡°Some people occasionally stumble across the truth. But then they pick themselves right up and move on like nothing happened.¡± Winston Churchill ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Shal Farley
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:07 AM To: GMF Subject: Re: [GMF] suddenly many yahoo.com members are bouncing, but not all of them ? Ruthie, ? ?
? I'm not seeing that among GMF's Yahoo Mail users. Has the situation resolved itself? ? In the affected member's Email Delivery History tab, what Reason is given for the bounces? Or Response if seen as a Most Recent Unsuccessful Attempt? ? Shal
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Re: Customizing home page
You can add a photo - in Admin, Settings, Cover Photo.? Too much mail? ?Use Subscription in the left menu for delivery options. Try Advanced Preferences. Or use the footers in your email to tailor delivery options for specific threads. Files, photos, wiki, older messages - all available here on the group's homepage.
-- You can use bolding, and other formatting. You can add hyperlinks. Frances /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki /static/help More help: use the search button at the top of the Messages list. |
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Re: suddenly many yahoo.com members are bouncing, but not all of them
Oddly, my travel group has 549 Yahoo Mail users. Only a half dozen were bouncing. Thanks for the heads up, Ruthie!
The message I see in Email Delivery History tab is: This mailbox is disabled (554.30) It seems one has been bouncing since March 1, 2019, a couple for just the last few days. BTW, I am happy to have the search box at the top of the members so I could just find all the Yahoo ones quickly! Frances -- /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki /static/help More help: use the search button at the top of the Messages list. |
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Re: suddenly many yahoo.com members are bouncing, but not all of them
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 07:50 AM, Ruthie Levi wrote:
yes, i have sent bounce probes...any other info on this situation?About a year ago, Yahoo had a bunch of issues with their mail servers (see /g/GroupManagersForum/topic/14788994). Groups would send people messages but they would bounce with a 500-level error to the effect that "that account does not exist." So you should definitely check the Email Delivery History per Shal's recommendation to see if something similar is happening. If so, it will resolve itself when sufficient number of the service users contact Yahoo and complain. For what it's worth, my main group has 20 subscribers that use Yahoo Mail and none of them are experiencing delivery problems. ? Good luck, Bruce -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
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Re: suddenly many yahoo.com members are bouncing, but not all of them
Ruthie,
I'm not seeing that among GMF's Yahoo Mail users. Has the situation resolved itself? In the affected member's Email Delivery History tab, what Reason is given for the bounces? Or Response if seen as a Most Recent Unsuccessful Attempt? 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: suddenly many yahoo.com members are bouncing, but not all of them
Ruthie, do you mean members with Yahoo.com email addresses?
Frances -- /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki /static/help More help: use the search button at the top of the Messages list. |
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