Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
Hi Jan, Dwayne As I have said here before, the obvious ¡°solution¡± is to permit single owners to designate a ¡°successor¡± (in waiting) who has NO authority thus conveyed UNTIL the untimely
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txercoupemuseum.org
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#32780
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Option not to receive one's own messages?
Thanks for groups.io! I was hoping there would be a way a member could elect not to receive messages he or she sent to the list. I recall that Mailman has such an option.? I don't want it myself, but
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Robin Whittle
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#32779
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Re: How to Change the Displayed Name of a @GIO Group Member-subscriber
Yes Yes, use the membership list. Admin > Members?? Click on a member to open their details. Change the Display Name and then Save (at the bottom of the page). Yes, via their account/group
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Andy Wedge
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#32778
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
Wars have been fought over succession (Though afaik not yet at groups io )? so for us humans it remains a tricky subject. Whether groups are there to serve the needs of the owner or vice versa is
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Jan van Heiningen
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#32777
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
I think you've got that backwards.? Groups are started by people who believe they can fill a need.? It's their sole decision whether anyone else is made an owner, or even a moderator.? The person
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Duane
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
Succession is a recurring situation that seems to have caused a number of groups some distress, but current mechanisms are perfectly reasonable and adequate. An owner who is concerned about succession
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Marvin Waschke
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
Duane said "There are some group owners that would fight that idea tooth and nail.? A few have already said that when they're gone, so is their group - no succession. " Groups are meant for group
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Mahendra Bakshi
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#32774
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
I agree it would be better to have groups handle this themselves However to have groupowners have a 100,%=control untill the death and beyond to my mind does not honour the input and contribution of
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Jan van Heiningen
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#32773
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
I agree that the group owner should have this option, and it needs to be honored. Just because it's become inconvenient for those he's left behind is no reason for groups.io support to intervene.
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Bruce
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#32772
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
That solution makes more sense to me the groupownerd who think they should be in totaal control and take the group with them into their grave To my mind the groupowner is there to serve the interests
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Jan van Heiningen
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#32771
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
There are some group owners that would fight that idea tooth and nail.? A few have already said that when they're gone, so is their group - no succession.? I've always had at least one other owner
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Duane
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Re: downloading group messages
If you have the emails in Thunderbird, the ImportExportTools add-on has various options for saving all messages in a TB folder to a TXT file (or other formats).
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Bill Burns
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
The problem of orphaned group can be avoided if groups.io requires that there be two owners to open up a new group.? For the existing groups where there is only one owner, groups.io can issue a
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Mahendra Bakshi
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#32768
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Re: How to Change the Displayed Name of a @GIO Group Member-subscriber
Have you checked he extensive help manuals that are available by simply using the Help link at the top right of the screen? -- Bob Bellizzi
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Monica H. Bellizzi
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
I can absolutely agree with this Op zo 12 jul. 2020 20:06 schreef David Sepos <sepos.david@...>:
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Jan van Heiningen
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#32766
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How to Change the Displayed Name of a @GIO Group Member-subscriber
Hello Group: I hope that all are healthy and staying safe. Is it possible to change the displayed member-subscriber's name? Can the GIO owner make the change ? How? Can the member-subscriber make the
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Vince@GMAIL
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#32765
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Re: Transferring Owner to Moderator
Multiple owners is a good answer to the "missing owner" situation. I am one of three owners in my primary group and it has been that way for several years including Yahoo. It also works well if one
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David Sepos
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#32764
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Re: Message split question
I have not had the need to use the split function but had a look just out of curiosity Chose a topic with two messages, clicked More on the second message and split is in the menu Reversed the two
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Nivard Ovington
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#32763
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Re: downloading group messages
Continuing the digression... The importexporttools add-on ( https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/ ) allows you to export an entire folder of TBird messages as one
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Bruce
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Re: downloading group messages
Mac has had that since sometime last century
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Michael Pavan
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