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Re: Narrow formatting in Digests?

Phil Smith III
 

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I¡¯ve attached a Digest, sent to list and to you directly, Bruce, since I¡¯m not sure whether it¡¯ll survive list processing. (As I said, I¡¯m new to groups.io¡ªbut I have been using lists since the original LISTSERV on VM/SP in the early 80s, so I¡¯m used to the vagaries of whether attachments are allowed or not!)

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I have not tried plaintext Digest, but I assume it wouldn¡¯t be formatted narrow, since it won¡¯t be formatted at all.

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Oh, and here¡¯s a screenshot, shrunk for readability, showing how there¡¯s whitespace on either side, then the scrollbar on the right. Outlook 2013, Windows 7, 14.4¡± laptop screen.

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Bowman
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2019 11:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] Narrow formatting in Digests?

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On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:35 AM, Phil Smith III wrote:

It¡¯s all very nice so far except for one thing: Digests are formatted in silly narrow columns. WebTV is long dead; why would anyone want to waste screen real estate like this? Makes it much harder to read.

Phil -- I'm not seeing this. Can you send a screenshot? Have you tried the Plain Text Digest option?

Bruce

Re: Narrow formatting in Digests?

Phil Smith III
 

See my note to the list for an example. No setting in Outlook for this.

I also captured the raw MIME, extracted the MIME-part, and opened it in a browser: also displays as a narrow column. See attached.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurence Taylor
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2019 3:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] Narrow formatting in Digests?

Phil Smith III <lists@...> wrote:

It's all very nice so far except for one thing: Digests are formatted
in silly narrow columns. WebTV is long dead; why would anyone want to
waste screen real estate like this? Makes it much harder to read.
How narrow are the columns?

Are you sure this isn't the way the sender wrote it? Your message in the
digest covered the full width of the screen; however my email client is
set to wrap at 72 characters when writing messages.

If your message also appeared to you in a narrow column, check if there
is a setting in your mail reader to alter that.

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rgds
LAurence
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Re: Is there a need for two owners?

 

It is always safe to have multiple owners and moderators. Else the group may end up orphaned!


On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 5:06 PM Dawson, Rosemary via Groups.Io <oudawson=[email protected]> wrote:
Currently, our group has one owner and three moderators. If something were to happen to the owner (me), would there be functions that moderators could not perform.? They have all of the permissions.

Thanks,

Ro

Only moderators can use hashtags?

 

I created a hashtag, and everyone is allowed to use it (the ¡°only moderators¡± box is not enabled).

When a non-moderator user tries to use that hashtag in a topic, the user gets a ¡°only moderators can use that hashtag¡± message. ?

Any clues?
Re: Is there a need for two owners?

 

They can even shut down the group!


On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 5:17 PM Chris Jones via Groups.Io <chrisjones12=[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:06 PM, Dawson, Rosemary wrote:
They have all of the permissions.
Does that include Set Moderator Privileges? If yes then they can turn themselves into Owners.

This may not always be a good thing; be careful who you give it to because anyone with that box checked can remove the "real" owner.

Chris

Re: Pleasure dealing with Groups.io

 

I haven¡¯t counted lately but when I joined here recently messages were arriving in my inbox at a general rate of one every 3 or 4 minutes.?
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Susan B

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On Oct 26, 2019, at 5:44 PM, Glenn Glazer <glenn.glazer@...> wrote:

On 10/26/2019 13:24, Duane wrote:
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 02:03 PM, Tommy Meehan wrote:
Thanks Mark!
FYI, no one from management is on this group, but it's certainly refreshing to hear some good news now and then.? Once all the dust settles, I think there will be many people that share your appreciation.

Duane

Speaking of appreciation, I think you, Shal and Bruce deserve a? nod. I count nearly 2,000 messages in this group (and not including beta) since the start of the month and that's way, way over what previous months were like. Applause for handling the increased workload!

Best,

Glenn
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Re: Is there an easy way to see how many members a GIO grouo has?

 

On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:07:04 -0700, "Dawson, Rosemary via Groups.Io"
<oudawson@...> wrote:


The number of members is shown on the group's home page. On a laptop, when you go to the member list, it shows how many total members there are; they are listed in groups of 50.
I found the number on the home page but it's interesting that on my
laptop on the members page it lists them in groups of 20, not 50.

Thanks. I might not have stumbled on it. It's a logical place for it
on the home page but you'd think there would also be a count on the
members list. Must have been overlooked.

Donald
Re: Is there a need for two owners?

 

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:06 PM, Dawson, Rosemary wrote:
They have all of the permissions.
Does that include Set Moderator Privileges? If yes then they can turn themselves into Owners.

This may not always be a good thing; be careful who you give it to because anyone with that box checked can remove the "real" owner.

Chris
Re: using email only

 

On 10/26/2019 3:19 PM, Duane wrote:
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 12:03 PM, Herb Gellis wrote:

What I remember seeing somewhere is that there was some "strange"
email address to use, containing the group name, and bunches of
numbers etc. - long email address.

That can be used for various reasons, but isn't needed for normal interaction.? If your group name is butterflies, they'd send email to butterflies@ group.io (without the space)? For replies, the address will automatically be filled in when they hit the Reply button in their email program.

Duane
Thanks Duane... I've been doing just that now for GMF and it works fine. If I use the email system (Thunderbird)'s reply button it sets up GMF in the to-field, which is great, even though the sender is actually showing the real email address of the sender (yours on gmail, e.g.) Also, the text of the original message is quoted in the reply.

When using the groups.io links for reply to group, e.g., there is no quoted original message. So I guess you can have it both ways depending on how one wants to respond. And of course there are the other options like Mute This Topic.

Thanks for responding.

-Herb
Re: list picture

 

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I googled for a site with photos without copyrights and found one and got a photo from there.?

Susan B?


On Oct 26, 2019, at 5:54 PM, kruffing via Groups.Io <kruffing@...> wrote:

Wondering the same!? My group is alumni of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is scrupulously nonpartisan, so if we have a photo of elephants we need another photo of donkeys.

(Just kiddin'.? But, I really would like to know the answer to L8R's query too.)

Re: Join? #notworking

 

Hi Kate

You have joined! I see your email address in the Admin, Members list.
Welcome!

This group's settings are:
All subscribers can post to the group.
?Posts to this group require approval from the moderators.
?Messages are set to reply to group.
?Subscriptions to this group do not require approval from the moderators.
?Archives are visible to anyone.
?Wiki is visible to anyone.
?Members can edit their messages.
?Members can set their subscriptions to no email.

For more info, see our wiki -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/home

Frances

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Join? #notworking

 

May I join? I am a Group owner on groups.io

i am?experiencing ?significant issues with replying to sub group messages.?

warmly?

kate stryker
Re: Fw: Data transfer - Yahoo to groups.io

 

This, and you could of course send out a message to all your Yahoo members telling them what¡¯s happening. You won¡¯t get those that are on special announcement only, but it¡¯s better than nothing I¡¯d think.

Diane
Re: list picture

 

From the wiki
Setttings tab #3

/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation

3) Cover Photo tab:
You can add a photo for your group home page as well as a group icon for use on mobile devices. Upload a file containing the cover photo. It will be scaled to fit within 900 x 300 pixels - 3:1 ratio.

Frances
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Re: Is there an easy way to see how many members a GIO grouo has?

 

The number of members is shown on the group's home page. On a laptop, when you go to the member list, it shows how many total members there are; they are listed in groups of 50.

Ro
Re: list picture

Gerald Boutin
 

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 06:55 PM, kruffing wrote:
Wondering the same!? My group is alumni of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is scrupulously nonpartisan, so if we have a photo of elephants we need another photo of donkeys.

(Just kiddin'.? But, I really would like to know the answer to L8R's query too.)
Go to ADMIN / SETTINGS - Click where it says Cover Picture
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Gerald
Re: ... dealing with Groups.io

 

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On 26-Oct-19 16:24, Duane wrote:
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 02:03 PM, Tommy Meehan wrote:
Thanks Mark!
FYI, no one from Groups.io management is on this group, but it's certainly refreshing to hear some good news now and then.? Once all the dust settles, I think there will be many people that share your appreciation.

Any way to get hold of "Mark"?

Perhaps he can fix my problem with the inoperative group. Still no contact from support@

* Orest
Is there a need for two owners?

 

Currently, our group has one owner and three moderators. If something were to happen to the owner (me), would there be functions that moderators could not perform.? They have all of the permissions.

Thanks,

Ro
Re: Brenda - How to join #howtoguide

 

Hello

There is help available - I hope it is sufficiently detailed for you. It is a group-created wiki so you can help improve it!

Inviting New Members

If you receive requests to join your restricted group -?Screening New Members Using the Pending Subscription Notice

Joining a group -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Joining-a-group

Logging in -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Logging-In

And more - some for the owner / moderator and some for members:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/home

Frances

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Is there an easy way to see how many members a GIO grouo has?

 

I don't see a member count on the members page under admin but I can
see how many pages of members there are. I can estimate to within 20
members by that but there must be an exact count somewhere, at least
for owners.

Donald


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