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Re: Single Owner Group - Owner Deceased
Jerry, I am a moderator of a group whose only Owner has passed away. I want to continue the group. How do I make myself and/or others Owners? You can't. Only one of a group's owners can promote someone to owner status. If there was only one, and that person can no longer do it, then your group is stuck. Except in one very narrow condition: if you can convince one of the owner's survivors to either promote someone to owner, or allow someone from the group to access the owner's Groups.io or email account. There has been a reported case of a group doing this, but it depends on the goodwill and capabilities of the owner's survivors. Shal -- Help: /helpcenter More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Need to create a group to collect public opinion
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 05:41 PM, Stewart Dean wrote:
So they can see the message and do whatever they want with it, but not approve it so it doesn't go to the group at largeIf you don't allow anyone except committee members to join the group (Restricted Membership), approving wouldn't really make any difference as long as you make the archives Private.? That way, if you want/need to, you could discuss things within the group. Duane -- The official Groups.io user documentation is in the Groups.io Help Center. GMF's Unofficial Help Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki |
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Re: Need to create a group to collect public opinion
But I don't want all kinds of specific questions that survey monkey is set up for (and indeed, SM wants to charge for comments, though you can get around that).? All I want is a way to receive whatever comments the general public has to make on our local policing in general and on our committee's recommendations in particular.? A comment bucket.? It looks like our group, /g/UlsterTownPoliceReinvention,
will do that just fine, a private group directory listed with posting by non-members allowed.? The committee is the group's membership.? After moderation (required even though moderation is turned off on the group), comments will be sent to us, but the public will not be able to see these comments, which is just as well. As I wrote in a note explaining this to the group: If this group were public, everyone would be able to see the postings....and things might become heated and unpleasant.? Making it private keeps the comments confidential and private, so that people can be frank.? In addition this provides a buffer: people might say things that would cause them trouble if said publicly; this will save them that embarrassment.?Thanks to all that helped me with this. |
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Re: Need to create a group to collect public opinion
Well, the simple kludge is that
> non-member posts will require moderator approval even if the list is set for non-moderation.? > So the non-member posts will appear to moderated-evaluated in the owner & moderator mailbox > So they can see the message and do whatever they want with it, but not approve it so it doesn't go to the group at large |
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Re: How to stop address harvesting
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 05:15 PM, Ken Schweizer wrote:
Technically can it be done and we are just not doing so, or is it a near impossibility?The method I gave was to prevent someone from joining the group just to get email addresses and doesn't apply here. Anyone that's a member of the group will see other member's email addresses in each post if they get individual messages.? There's no way to prevent that.? A malcontent can save/harvest those as they come in and use them at a later date. Duane -- The official Groups.io user documentation is in the Groups.io Help Center. GMF's Unofficial Help Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki |
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Re: How to stop address harvesting
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýThanks Duane, ? "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." God ? From: [email protected]
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Sent: Monday, January 11, 2021 4:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GMF] How to stop address harvesting ? On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 04:02 PM, Ken Schweizer wrote: Is there a way to prevent users from simply signing on to a group and harvest personal e-mail addresses? No.? The closest you can get is to set the group to Restricted so that you'd need to approve every applicant and vet them before allowing admission.? Many use the Pending Subscription notice to ask for info
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Re: How to find all current owners of a group
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 04:28 PM, Steve Johnson wrote:
When I log in to my group as moderator, I cannot promote someone else to owner. Why is that?Only an owner can promote someone to owner.? Moderators may have permission to add more moderators, but it's not a given. Duane -- The official Groups.io user documentation is in the Groups.io Help Center. GMF's Unofficial Help Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki |
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Re: How to stop address harvesting
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 04:02 PM, Ken Schweizer wrote:
Is there a way to prevent users from simply signing on to a group and harvest personal e-mail addresses?No.? The closest you can get is to set the group to Restricted so that you'd need to approve every applicant and vet them before allowing admission.? Many use the Pending Subscription notice to ask for info from the applicant. Duane -- The official Groups.io user documentation is in the Groups.io Help Center. GMF's Unofficial Help Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki |
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