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Re: Is there a way to send an Inquiry type email before accepting new members in Groups.io?

 

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There is a setting you can try at Amin/settings/, and at the top of the page there is a setting for Member Notices. Check that out. I set up a Pending Subscriptions, but I¡¯m not sure how it¡¯s working. If I don¡¯t the who the person is that trying to join, then I send them an email also. That was normal operating procedure at Y, so I¡¯m trying to do it at Groups.io

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Don

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barbara Jones
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] Is there a way to send an Inquiry type email before accepting new members in Groups.io?

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I am just emailing each new member before they are approved, asking for a single sentence about why they want to join. It is slow, they don't tend to respond in a hurry.

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Barb Jones

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From: ~mary~ <whodatgurl@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:00 PM
Subject: [GMF] Is there a way to send an Inquiry type email before accepting new members in Groups.io?

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I was able to do this in Yahoogroups.? It was nice to vet someone before we accepted them.? I tried searching and couldn't find anything..? Thanks!

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Re: What action is required by members after the transfer?

Carol Shenkenberger
 

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Sorry for lack of quote, haven¡¯t seen how to do that yet in groups.io (I¡¯m sure it¡¯s there though).

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So Shal,

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I am mid-way in transit to groups.io from the yahoogroup SUFFOLK_VA_FREECYCLE to SUFFOLK-VA-FREECYCLE at groups.io.??? I haven¡¯t seen any autotransfers yet but it¡¯s only been a day and yahoo may be slow just now.?

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I am confused on what the members expect to see.? It seems to have changed from some of the earlier messages I have seen. Is there a wiki I am missing?

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Sent from for Windows 10

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Re: Is there a way to send an Inquiry type email before accepting new members in Groups.io?

 

I am just emailing each new member before they are approved, asking for a single sentence about why they want to join. It is slow, they don't tend to respond in a hurry.

Barb Jones


From: ~mary~ <whodatgurl@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:00 PM
Subject: [GMF] Is there a way to send an Inquiry type email before accepting new members in Groups.io?

I was able to do this in Yahoogroups.? It was nice to vet someone before we accepted them.? I tried searching and couldn't find anything..? Thanks!

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Re: No login link

Nancy in Renton
 

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Re: Is there a way to send an Inquiry type email before accepting new members in Groups.io?

 

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If you are a group owner or perspective owner, you can set up your group as a restricted group and therefore be able to contact the prospective applicant before them being approved to your group.


Doug



From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of ~mary~ <whodatgurl@...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [GMF] Is there a way to send an Inquiry type email before accepting new members in Groups.io?
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I was able to do this in Yahoogroups.? It was nice to vet someone before we accepted them.? I tried searching and couldn't find anything..? Thanks!

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Re: What action is required by members after the transfer?

 

Thanks Shal.

Yes, I know what the process is (although I haven't needed to use it since the
time limit was introduced) and that workaround is pretty obvious to someone who
is reasonably clued up. I vaguely remember the timescale being discussed some
time ago on beta. Does the green banner you refer to mention the short time
scale? If not perhaps I should raise that on beta? It seems essential for some
people.

Jim

On 23 Jan 2018 at 22:51, Shal Farley wrote:

Jim,

> That time limit is nevertheless ridiculously short, and I fail to
> understand the reason for it.

You can blame J for that.
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/3574
(Just teasing!)

> If I follow a link within one of those messages, as in the case
> described, I would not see the response for about 24 hours (and could
> be several days if I happened to be away from home the following
> days).

It takes more than following the link in the email.

One then must click on the button that says "Email me a link to login".
After you click that button the web site puts up a green banner that
says "An email has been sent to you with a link to log into your
account". If you click that button and then don't bother to check your
email within several minutes I'd say that's on you.

Besides, apart from wasting some of your time the consequence is
harmless. Learn from your mistake and click the button at a time when
you are prepared to check your email.

Shal



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Is there a way to send an Inquiry type email before accepting new members in Groups.io?

~mary~
 

I was able to do this in Yahoogroups.? It was nice to vet someone before we accepted them.? I tried searching and couldn't find anything..? Thanks!

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Is there any way to RSVP without logging in? #calendar

 

I anticipate that many of the people on my list will probably never need to log in to the groups.io site, and many are also technically challenged.? That said, the RSVP feature could be useful since our group holds events frequently, so I've been trying it out with a couple folks that were direct added to my group.? (In time everyone will be direct added).

When they try to RSVP, it asks for a login/password which they don't have.? The only options I see for them to continue at that point are to:
1) Do 'forgot password' and set up an account
2) Direct them to get a temporary link for sign-in.?

Unfortunately this pretty much ends the process for most of our users.? Is there a better option that I've missed?

Thanks,
Christine
Re: 0 files were transferred

 

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Pamela,

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I don¡¯t ¡®think¡¯ that can be done.

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pamela - N1ZKH
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] 0 files were transferred

Is it possible to somehow keep the original uploaders name as the person that uploaded the file? Tried it with one and it put my ID as Uploaded By.

Pamela

Re: Great transition

 

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We had issues on our enterprise account with bouncing members.? Mark can speak more to what happened there (it was a server issue, not a groups.io issue) so we had to move our server and it¡¯s basically solved the problem.?

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If anyone has a message they send out to their members about ¡°whitelisting¡± email addresses that might be something you can post regularly to keep those bouncing members at bay.

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Good luck!

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Susan Fox

Founder, Park Slope Parents

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Malware Threat in attached photos.

 

Last year I suffered a ransomware attack thru an attached photo in an e-mail.
Are photos (uploaded and attached) scanned for malware in groups.io?
A search in this group had zero results.

KEN

"It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in
men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling
are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest,
sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are
the traits of success." STEINBECK - CANNERY ROW
Data protection

 

I am considering moving the group I manage on YahooGroups to another software base. This potentially would mean releasing names and email addresses to a third party. It thus falls under the remit of the UK Data Protection Act 1984? and then the even more stringent forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) from May 2018. In the latter, implied consent (with an opt out for such an action) may not be legal.

How have other list managers dealt with this issue?

Margaret Parker
Leeds, UK
Approving

Nancy in Renton
 

Is there a way to edit and change format (hot pink) while approving?

Nancy
Re: 0 files were transferred

 

Thanks for the replies. I will download them and upload to the group, which brings up another question. Is it possible to somehow keep the original uploaders name as the person that uploaded the file? Tried it with one and it put my ID as Uploaded By.

Pamela
Limits on Photo size but not photo type!

 

All,
I set the size limit in e-mails to a smaller 488x488 maximum,
while images in Photos are limited to a larger 1024 x 1024.

However I don't see a means of limiting photo type.
A Jpeg 488 x 488 image is much smaller than a 488x488 Bitmap.

Is there any way to restrict wasteful image types like Bitmap?
Other than encouraging use of Jpegs?

KEN

"It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in
men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling
are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest,
sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are
the traits of success." STEINBECK - CANNERY ROW
Re: Great transition

 

Marv,

10% are bouncing. That is more troubling.
Not necessarily. Y!Groups bounce tracking has had problems for several years, and these may be addresses which should have been listed as Bouncing at Y!Groups, but for one reason or another weren't.

I posted on the Y! group that members should be receiving posts from
groups.io and to adjust their anti-spam if they are not.
And particularly if their email service uses a "challenge" type of anti-spam they may need to explicitly white-list groups.io.

Shal
Re: Identifying inactive members

 

Marv,

I suppose I am asking if groups.io can track reads on posts.
I think it has been suggested, but no.

And of course, any attempt to track whether email messages are opened would be problematic.

Shal
Database Search

 

I have many databases in our group, and I'v noticed something peculiar when I do a search on one of them. Six dbases have some information found in all of them, and when I do a search for a particular item in one dbase, the results of the search will also display that particular information in the other dbases, along with what I'm looking for. It's like these dbases are connected, so a search in one is a search in all of them. This does not seem like a normal operation to me. Is it?

Don
Re: Are Adult groups allowed on groups.io

 

Johnny,

Hi, I wanted to transfer my adults only yahoo group to groups.io, but
I cannot find any info that adult groups are allowed on here.
It depends on the group's content:
/static/adult
(That link is in the TOS)

... if so how do I make my group available to adults only.
As Duane said, there is no mechanism to do that.

If you decide that your group fits within the content guidelines you might want to make the group's content members-only and restrict membership to people you approve.

Shal
Re: What action is required by members after the transfer?

 

Jim,

That time limit is nevertheless ridiculously short, and I fail to
understand the reason for it.
You can blame J for that.
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/3574
(Just teasing!)

If I follow a link within one of those messages, as in the case
described, I would not see the response for about 24 hours (and could
be several days if I happened to be away from home the following
days).
It takes more than following the link in the email.

One then must click on the button that says "Email me a link to login". After you click that button the web site puts up a green banner that says "An email has been sent to you with a link to log into your account". If you click that button and then don't bother to check your email within several minutes I'd say that's on you.

Besides, apart from wasting some of your time the consequence is harmless. Learn from your mistake and click the button at a time when you are prepared to check your email.

Shal
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