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Screening Questions

 

Hi,
We are testing out Groups.io. One problem we encountered is that we cant seem to screen people who request to join the group. The only option is to approve/reject. Does anyone know how to include screening questions that need to be answered when people subscribe?
Thank you!
Avraham


Re: Pending Notices and the Applicants response.

 
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I just rejected a message using BCC All Moderators and I got a copy of the rejection notice without having to tick the other box.

For what it's worth...

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Re: Moderating Posts Based on Filtered Words

 

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 05:12 AM, Marcio wrote:


suggest it again? I saw it was suggested on Feb so...
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I added some thoughts to that Feb. topic, FWIW . . . [ ]

Cheers!

Paul M.
CostaRicaLiving
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Re: Pending Notices and the Applicants response.

 

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 04:37 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
Of late I have stopped receiving those copies, although the other two seem to receive them OK.
I believe you have to select Bcc:Me (or however it's worded) in addition to Bcc: All Moderators in order to get your own copy.? That's the way it all worked at one time, though I was thinking that was changed to include "Me" with the "All Moderators" at one time, but maybe I'm remembering the email a member function.? It does seem like it should be consistent in all situations.

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Re: Pending Notices and the Applicants response.

 

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:25 AM, Peter Rawbone wrote:
I see that subject to appropriate permissions, the (non-owner) Moderator should also see replies to the Pending Message and this is not occurring at all - is this normal?
I suspect that I have a comparable "problem". If I have reason to reject a member's (attempted) posting then I check the Bcc: All Moderators box. This used to work correctly and all 3 Owners / Moderators received a copy of the rejection notice.

Of late I have stopped receiving those copies, although the other two seem to receive them OK. I have flagged this up with Support but as yet have not received any comment back.

FWIW emailing a member with Bcc: All Moderators still appears to be working correcty.

Chris


Re: Pending Notices and the Applicants response.

 

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 04:25 AM, Peter Rawbone wrote:
However, three days later another member replied to the Pending Message (same wording as before) and that showed in their '+owner' but not mine so it appears that something has changed.

Within our Group, there are two Moderators and one Owner.? I am the Owner and one of the Moderators.? I see that subject to appropriate permissions, the (non-owner) Moderator should also see replies to the Pending Message and this is not occurring at all - is this normal?
+owner messages have always shown up under the members subscription.? Nothing shows up in the actual owner/moderator +owner list unless a copy is sent to that email address.? If the owner/moderators have their subscription set to receive those emails, they'll see responses.? A "central depository" for +owner messages and replies has been requested before, but nothing has happened yet.

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Re: Pending Notices and the Applicants response.

 

Shal,

Thank you for your response.? The same email address was used when xyz replied to the Pending Notice.? Having just clicked my '+owner' tab, I see that the last recorded response there was 6 May (19).? I then looked up the member who had replied to the Pending Message and it was there as well -? "xyz sent message "WildAx" to owners via email"

However, three days later another member replied to the Pending Message (same wording as before) and that showed in their '+owner' but not mine so it appears that something has changed.

Within our Group, there are two Moderators and one Owner.? I am the Owner and one of the Moderators.? I see that subject to appropriate permissions, the (non-owner) Moderator should also see replies to the Pending Message and this is not occurring at all - is this normal?

Hope you can advise further.
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Re: Moderating Posts Based on Filtered Words

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Shal,
I'm not sure why naysayers felt compelled to chime in on that one, it would clearly be a feature that they could choose not to use.
Not sure either. Do you think we?? should suggest it again? I saw it was suggested on Feb so...

Cheers,
AKA Starboy

Sent from a galaxy far, far away.


Re: Moderating Posts Based on Filtered Words

 

Marcio,

Suppose that I have a word (or phrase) on a blacklist. If a member
sends an email containing this word/phrase, whether in the subject
line or even the message body, it would be moderated automatically,
waiting for my aproval to make it to the public.
Is it possible at all?
No, but it has been suggested. See:


I support the suggestion.

I'm not sure why naysayers felt compelled to chime in on that one, it would clearly be a feature that they could choose not to use.

Shal


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Re: How many groups can I form?

 

Neil,

How many groups can I form?
is there a limit?
I don't believe that there is a published limit.

Be aware that new groups are held inactive (no message posting) until approved by Groups.io - so if there is an appearance of abuse, such as creating an excessive number of groups, they would likely not be approved.

Every time I complete a large group training can I start an IO group
for those participants?
Most likely yes, unless the number of them is outrageous.

On the other hand if these group trainings have something in common you might consider creating a primary group that represents your "school" as a whole, and within that subgroups for each group training.

Subgroups have almost the identical features and controls as primary groups, except that 1) every subgroup member must also be a primary group member, and 2) the primary group and all its subgroups are on the same "plan" (Basic, Premium or Enterprise).

So, if there's some value to being able to send a message to all of the participants in all of the trainings the primary group would make that easy, no need to cross-post the message to a multitude of groups. Likewise if there's some value to having a central store of Files, Photos or Wiki pages that are available to participants in all trainings.

The primary group would need initial approval when created, but the subgroups would not.

Shal


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Re: Pending Notices and the Applicants response.

 

Peter,

For some reason, I receive an email from xyz providing the required
information but it does not show under the '+owner messages'.
The only thing I can think of is that perhaps xyz sent the message using a different email address than the one which is pending in your group. It seems like a long shot though, because why would the person do that rather than simply reply to your Notice.

Messages to +owner from non-members are not recorded anywhere, though the fact the message was received is recorded in the group's Activity log: "... sent message ... to owners via email"

I do not remember changing any of my settings, has something changed
within GIO?
There is no control for this, nor am I aware of any change.

Shal


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Re: Wiki instruction or tutorial

 

<<<On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 08:26 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 07:21 PM, Ken Kloeber wrote:
Each ToC line now operates as an?exteral link?and now opens a NEW WEB PAGE (oriented at the associated header location.)
Ken -- This may be a bug. See?/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/32412891
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FIXED last night!!
This was an unintended side effect of another change. that Mark made...


Moderating Posts Based on Filtered Words

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Hi,
Is there a way of accomplishing this?
Suppose that I have a word (or phrase) on a blacklist. If a member sends an email containing this word/phrase, whether in the subject line or even the message body, it would be moderated automatically, waiting for my aproval to make it to the public.
Is it possible at all?

As always, thanks a lot :)

Cheers,
AKA Starboy

Sent from a galaxy far, far away.


Re: RSS feed topic only

 

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:30 AM, Cristiano Musacci wrote:
is there a way to view group posts organized by topic in RSS feed?
Actually i can see the topic (first) and all replies as Re: messages as single messages.
Cristiano -- There is no way to alter the order of messages in the XML file sent to you via the feed. If there's any way to shuffle them around, it would have to be via some configuration setting in your reader.

Hope this helps,
Bruce?
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Re: .MOV File Storage

 

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 05:02 PM, Don Grass wrote:
Under Edit Message I can see the images, and below the images a small sample of the images with a Delete box that can be checked. If I check the Delete box for this .mov file and select the red delete button will that be enough for deleting the .mov file? Or do I need to delete the whole message that includes all the images?
Don -- The wiki link that I provided is accurate, and I suggest you proceed according to those instructions, to wit:? Under Edit Message, tick the checkbox next to any attachments that you want to delete, and then click the blue "Save Without Sending to Group" button.

If you click the red Delete button you will delete the entire message. If (per your original post) you want to keep the JPGs, that isn't the best course of action.

Regards,
Bruce
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How many groups can I form?

 

is there a limit? Every time I complete a large group training ?can I start an IO group for those participants?


Re: .MOV File Storage

 

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 04:02 PM, Don Grass wrote:
If I check the Delete box for this .mov file and select the red delete button will that be enough for deleting the .mov file?
Yes, that's the way to delete individual attachments.

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Re: MX records from Dreamhost to groups.io #email

 

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If what you want is to move your present list operations to groups.io, there is no simple way to do it, and certainly not by changing the MX record settings.

The MX record on your analybandwagon.org domain points to the mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of your domain.? You cannot change this to point to groups.io, as groups.io is an email list host, not a mail server - these are two completely different functions.? If you make any change to your MX record, you will very soon start receiving no mail at all.

For each list you currently have at Dreamhost, you need to set up a corresponding list at groups.io, then add all the existing members to this new list.

Bill

On 7/23/2019 9:42 PM, Michael Ost wrote:

Hi groups.io experts,

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My non-profit has a website hosted at Dreamhost () . We¡¯ve been using their mailing lists for years but would now like to manage emails with our abw.groups.io account. That is, we don¡¯t want to redirect all of??to abw.groups.io; we want to keep the website but we just want emails sent to?SOMEONE@...?to get handled by?[email protected].

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I came across something called ¡°MX Records¡± which sound like just the trick:?. Supposedly they can allow me to route emails without having to change all DNS lookups.

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Do you know if this can work? Do you know what MX record settings I would use for abw.groups.io?

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Thanks in advance!

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Michael Ost



Re: .MOV File Storage

 

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¡°The only way of finding it is via the the message to which it was originally attached (in which it will appear as a thumbnail) and the only way of getting rid of it is to delete that message.¡±

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Under Edit Message I can see the images, and below the images a small sample of the images with a Delete box that can be checked. If I check the Delete box for this .mov file and select the red delete button will that be enough for deleting the .mov file? Or do I need to delete the whole message that includes all the images?

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Don


Re: .MOV File Storage

 

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 04:32 PM, Don Grass wrote:
Do you know where this .mov file be stored if not in the Emailed Photos album?
Yes... it will be in the Emailed Photos Album along with everything else sent as an attachment, but because it is not in a standard photo format (e.g. jpg) it will not appear in the list of emailed photos and does not add to the "count" of photos, but does add to the count of MB stored and is included in the total of MB filled by attachments shown on the front page of the Photo Section.

The only way of finding it is via the the message to which it was originally attached (in which it will appear as a thumbnail) and the only way of getting rid of it is to delete that message.

Chris.