I I apologize for posting this here, but is there? groups.io group for feature requests for groups.io?

In particular we'd love to see the ability when creating a calendar item in a sub group to populate it to the main group.

how do I get it to go into individual columns to seperate the informaiton?? Everything shows up in one column.? I am using firefox.? I saved the document and then opened it in excel?? Do I need to check certain boxes when trying to open it in excel?? I want to find out how many members receive special notices

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On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 11:32 PM, isis feral wrote:

I've not tried to add anyone to a group in a while, and I guess we can no longer add anyone directly.

You need to have a paid group to do Direct Add.

Today I sent an invite to someone, as well as suggested she try to subscribe by emailing a blank email to the subscribe email, and her reply to the invite and the blank email both bounced back to her.

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I just tried sending an invitation and it worked fine by hitting reply and send without doing anything else.? I also tried sending a totally blank email to the subscribe address for the group and that worked as well.? I'd suspect something in her email client, possibly sending from a different account than the invitation was sent to.? (Though it sounds to me like she's not using the Reply button.)

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Simon,

There are a great many visually impaired people that use groups.io,
that use screen readers such as Jaws and NVDA.

And some are members of GMF. I'm hoping some would chime in here about how they cope with the date/time format.

How do I get this changed, ...

This old thread in beta is now locked, but it shows that there was once an option for this, but it was being phased out three years ago:


This more recent thread documents when the option was removed from users' Account Preferences. You could revive this topic with a new reply, but you're probably best of starting a new topic specific to what you want.

It's not as if there isn't enough space to put that info.

Actually, don't forget that the site is responsive, and reshapes itself to fit mobile device screens. On such a screen the real estate available for date/time is quite limited.

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Thank you for the explanation, and I know this isn't your fault, but that's really not good enough. There are a great many visually impaired people that use groups.io, that use screen readers such as Jaws and NVDA. Screen reader users do not use a mouse, and even if they highlight the date with the cursor, they would have tool tips switched off, because they are incredibly obtrusive during navigation. As a sighted user, I do not want to have to 'hover' my mouse pointer over every date in order to get that information. When I'm glancing through messages, the time is often important to me, so I need to see that while I'm glancing. How do I get this changed, because at the very least it is not accessible to visually impaired people? It's not as if there isn't enough space to put that info.

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I find the easiest way around all that is to make an email address (in my case gmail) and I don't use it for anything but groups. ? Gloria ? ? ? ?

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Hi all,

This week's change log:



Feel free to reply to this topic if you'd like to comment on the
changes. Or better yet, if you expect a lot of discussion start a new
topic (or rejoin an existing one) about a specific change.

CHANGE: Changed a bunch of references to 'post' to 'message'.

A purely cosmetic change to the user interface, in the interest of more consistent usage, and thereby hopefully greater clarity. This means that in GMF's wiki there are likely quotes and screenshots of the prior usage that are now out of date. Not to mention Messages, but that way lies madness...


Comments about these are welcome:

API: Changed profile_photo_id to profile_photo_url in the User object.

Please call out any you find significant.

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Jonathan,

When I checked the footers of several postings, I noticed that
some had the usual footers and others had a truncated footer.

There is a distinction between messages posted as plain text versus those posted with formatting (HTML).
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Footers

I assume that that the difference was between people posting via email
and those posting online.

I don't believe there is such a difference.

Members posting online post in plain text or formatted according to their "Editor Preference" control, in the Preferences page of their Account. Members posting by email post in one or the other according to their email interface's settings.

If so, is there a group setting to be able to harmonize these footers?

In the Message Formatting section of the group's Settings page you can check the "Force HTML Emails" box to make all messages formatted, or you can check the "Plain Text Only" box to make all messages plain text.

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I am a moderator of the SOECA email group. ?One member complained that the footer to a message did not have a button to choose reply or reply all. ?When I checked the footers of several postings, I noticed that some had the usual footers and others had a truncated footer. ?I assume that that the difference was between people posting via email and those posting online. ?If so, is there a group setting to be able to harmonize these footers?

Jonathan Bernstein (Silver Spring, MD)

Brooke,

My group has a couple owners and one was tasked with paying for the
groups upgrade however when they went to the upgrade button a "you are
not an approved payor" message popped up.

Hmm... I thought that got fixed last month.

In beta Mark wrote:

BUGFIX: If a basic group previously was a premium group with a
different person set as payor, you could not change who was the payor
or upgrade the group.

You wrote:

I thought owner was the top of the top, why can't this person give
Groups.io money?

Owner is top.

There is a feature to prevent one owner from causing charges to another owner's credit card, which I think is where the wording about not being the payor comes from, but another owner should be able to submit his/her own credit card to upgrade the group

If this person has tried some time after August 9th and still ran into this problem he/she should report that to [email protected] to get it fixed.

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Ken,

I recently had msgs in my spam (aol musta flagged em) and got no
unsubscribe.

Prior experience with AOL suggests that if you leave them there long
enough to be auto-deleted then you will.

Having messages be delivered to the spam folder automatically thus gives you a grace period to retrieve them, but those messages may be considered "time bombs" that will trigger an FBL report from AOL (and hence an unsubscribe by Groups.io) if left in place.

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On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 07:24 PM, psb b wrote:

And I never empty anything, spam or trash.

Yahoo does it so frequently that I just don't bother with worrying about emptying either one.

That could be the problem.? If any "good" messages happen to be in the spam folder when Yahoo decides to empty it, they're considered spam.? You'd need to be sure to check the spam folder often enough that no "good" messages are there when it gets emptied.

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I have 2 email addresses I use for groups.io. The one designated as owner of several groups is set to "No Email" for all of them. The other address is subscribed to the same groups and uses various email settings. You can't be unsubscribed if you don't get email.

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As well, be sure to add e-dresses (and permutations) in your contact list so it is recognized as an “approved” one. Not just in your device but in the providers list. For instance my phone contacts is separate from the contacts list that AOL keeps. Some let you auto add all addresses that YOU send TO.