I also chose not to expedite my transfer. I have over 400,000 messages and 10,000+ members. Almost 1,000 have moved over and I am asking people to just post on the new list. My transfer started around Oct. 28 so I am not concerned about missed messages that won't be transferred over.?
Right now, I am: Your group is awaiting import into Groups.io. There are about 793 groups ahead of it in the queue. [Stage 3 of 4]

Slowly but surely? <grin>.?
Susan

Actually, the little section for inserting a footer doesn't have the text controls, like the other text windows. But I at least figured out how to get it to accept additional spaces... You can enter a blank character as a space, by combination alt+255 on the num pad, or for OSX option+space. That seems to make the server hold the extra spaces intact. But it takes some experimenting to get it right. I guess it could still be skewed on the receiver's end though by their font.

What you want to do is exacty what we do with a separate free group.
It's just as easy to maintain a separate free group and likely less confusing.
That way, no one accidently posts a management msg to the main group. OOPS!
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PayPal has been my primary system for over 20 years for our? nonprofit.
Its' standard is 2.9% +US$0.30
Someone mistakenly mentioned Paypay instead of PayPal, I think
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Thanks Bruce I'll give it a shot.

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 12:29 PM, Nancy Goldman wrote:

Can the subgroup be password protected from the main group?

No.? But a subgroup has it's own Settings page, so you can control who has access.

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On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 12:29 PM, Norman C. Berns wrote:

I have a standard group.

If you mean a free group, then no.? It's a Premium group option.

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One option to send money is to use PayPay and have peeps send as "friends and family" - when funded via a checking acct (can't recall about a debit card?) there's no fee to either end.? I use that all the time, and to pay a vendor (via their email address rather than paying an invoice) whenever I can.
I believe that Venmo (a PP company I believe) is (or was) no fee as well.

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Can the subgroup be password protected from the main group? ?In other word the main group be the general membership and the sub being the board?

I have a standard group. Can I ask my members for donations to maintain the group?

Norman Berns

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 12:41 PM, Dave D. wrote:

Traditionally I've always put a little ASCII (text) art in the sigs for my groups previously. GIO seems to strip any extra empty spaces out, when you try to do this in the 'message footer' option, thereby ruining the formatting of the art. Anybody have any idea how to possibly prevent that?

Dave -- You can try switching the group settings to Plain Text Only ("Message Formatting" block), but that won't work if the recipient's email client is rendering your work using a proportional font. So I suggest this instead:

Click the "hamburger" menu open at far right to show the Advanced Toolbar, followed by again clicking far right icon to open "Source code" mode.

Having done that, you must use a monospaced font, and inhibit the normal collapse of consecutive whitespace characters in HTML.?So what you will have to do is specify the font using some kind of inline CSS style (style="font: 15px consolas;" or courier or something like that should work) and then wrap the entire section of ACSII art in <pre> </pre> tags to keep it from collapsing.

Be sure to also check "Force HTML emails" and UNcheck "Normalize HTML emails" in your Settings.

If you do all that, I think it will work.

Good luck,
Bruce

I haven't dried the donation service within Groups.io, but I can tell you two things in answer to your questions:

1. Stripe is an industry leader, perhaps THE industry leader for accepting credit cards, so it is trustworthy and solid.
2. Credit card companies generally charge 2.9% or more (up to 3.4% for Amex), plus $0.30 per transaction; that is Stripe's transaction.? I have seen other web providers charge up to 3% more on top of that as their own service fee, which many deem reasonable.? If Groups.io charges only 5% and that has the 2.9% plus $0.30 already built in, then I would say that is very reasonable.? The alternative is that you create your own website and do your own programming to allow it to work in conjunction with Stripe or Square or Paypal or whatever other processor you want to you.? Unless you are bringing in a ton of donations, it probably isn't worth doing your own programming.

Howard

Traditionally I've always put a little ASCII (text) art in the sigs for my groups previously. GIO seems to strip any extra empty spaces out, when you try to do this in the 'message footer' option, thereby ruining the formatting of the art. Anybody have any idea how to possibly prevent that?

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 11:58 AM, Derek Milliner wrote:

Slightly awkward I admit, as you'd have to invite members (assuming you make it a restricted group not listed in the parent)...

Members already in the parent group can be Direct Added to a subgroup, regardless of payment plan (Basic, Premium, or Enterprise). They do not have to be invited.

Regards,
Bruce

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 10:58 AM, Derek Milliner wrote:

Edit - the invite process would only be needed if you're using a basic rather than premium group.

Actually, you can direct add members from the main group to a subgroup even on the free groups.

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On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 07:28 AM, Martin Cleaver wrote:

I too was looking for the "language" field in the setup. I can't believe that this platform is solely available in English.

Well, it's only been around for 5 years... ;>)? It started very small and is growing more rapidly than expected with the YG announcement.? There has been discussion on the beta group around having other languages, but it's a complicated procedure.? I expect that it will happen one day because Mark wants this to be a world class email group service.? Hopefully he won't get burnout from the transfer deluge!

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On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 10:26 AM, Tiffiney Oatman wrote:

Is it possible to create a sub email group only. Meaning I don't want to create a whole entire complete subgroup site, I just want to create a sub email group and put individuals into that email group so that emails can be sent and received to only a subset of members.

Tiffiney -- You can set up a subgroup and disable virtually all of the features there (calendar, files, photos, wiki, databases, etc) in Settings. This might be useful to handle email traffic within a committee or board of directors or other subset of a larger group. Please note, however, that the retention of messages in the message archive of the subgroup cannot be disabled. If you want those to go away you'll have to periodically log in and delete them manually.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

I think the chat feature would be used more, if members knew someone wanted to chat. What about the idea of the chat tab changing color or blinking when the chat room was in use?

Don

Am 03.11.19 um 17:49 schrieb W9WIS:

It occurs in all the groups I subscribe to

It looks like you have at your mailhoster setup a forward to this old address. This is not a groups.io problem, but some setting at your mail service.

Tiffiney,

I suspect the answer is no - I had a quick look at a couple of options? but no go. Any particular reason you didn't want to set up a subgroup? Slightly awkward I admit, as you'd have to invite members (assuming you make it a restricted group not listed in the parent)...

Edit - the invite process would only be needed if you're using a basic rather than premium group.

Derek