Is there any way I can get a user to include a comment with a poll - in addition to just checking off their choices - give more information

I was thinking of sending the poll in an email and have the comment being included in the reply to the email? in addition to answering the poll but not sure it would work. Has any one tried to do this?

Thanks!

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On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 08:22 PM, Judith Freed wrote:

As soon as one is chosen and deleted?everything defaults back to the very top of the list basically.? Is there no way to work from earliest to latest so one could at least make a routine of going through one at a time???

As with the Size column header, if you click on Date it will invert the sort order, thus displaying oldest message first.

And Bruce I understand where the Message Policies are and I had set it to "Storage Limit Reached".

What should I change it to??

My bad. It used to be called "Out of Space," when you inquired about this 4 years ago. The name has been changed since then, for no apparent reason.

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Anyway, "Storage Limit Reached" is a pull-down menu. Click on it, and select "Delete Old Attachments." Be sure to save your changes.

I would actually like to go in manually and clip out an entire year.?

There is no provision to select a date range. To achieve that, you will have to edit messages one by one.?

It is very handy to attach photos which we use a lot, to the whole group (it is 20 people) rather than me having to send out to all individually.? I don't want them too downsized or they are not easily printable.

I very much appreciate the help given as I am finding the Owner's manual both a little obtuse and often incorrect in procedure.?

The user interface was updated several months ago and the manuals have fallen behind. I'm told they are being worked on, and I sure hope so.?

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Regards,

Bruce

Thank you Hamish and Bruce.

? I found the Attachment's list (not sure how I overlooked before when I was on that page)

?One group of messages (page) with attachments can be shown at a time.? As soon as one is chosen and deleted?everything defaults back to the very top of the list basically.? Is there no way to work from earliest to latest so one could at least make a routine of going through one at a time???

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And Bruce I understand where the Message Policies are and I had set it to "Storage Limit Reached".

What should I change it to?? I did not see anything that was more appropriate in the available options. I would actually like to go in manually and clip out an entire year.? Anything worth saving that was listed in our message group has been saved already and put into our history. It is very handy to attach photos which we use a lot, to the whole group (it is 20 people) rather than me having to send out to all individually.? I don't want them too downsized or they are not easily printable.??

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I very much appreciate the help given as I am finding the Owner's manual both a little obtuse and often incorrect in procedure.? Mostly I just have to add and subtract people infrequently.? Now I will need to be able to train someone else in procedure and I will need to write a careful list of precise directions for them so I may be here a lot for clarifications.? Thanks

Thank you - I will go check that out.

I have yet to receive a single spam via my lists I own since Rootswewb

On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 01:45 PM, Steve Bass wrote:

...is Groups.io doing anything to stop the spam? Anyone know if Mark's aware of the issue?

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It used to be that "banned by system" accounts could still send spam to the +owner address. That was changed 3 days ago.

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Bruce

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I think this is unusual as it's hitting just owners. Might be trickier for him to eliminate.

On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 12:45 PM, Steve Bass wrote:

is Groups.io doing anything to stop the spam?

Mark is always trying to keep spam out.? I've seen senders banned in a couple of hours.? Sometimes the spammers strike faster than he can ban them though.

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I spotted a smattering of messages here about the increasing number of spams we're getting as Owners (about six a day).

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Besides blocking at my e-mail server level, is Groups.io doing anything to stop the spam? Anyone know if Mark's aware of the issue?

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Thanks everyone...

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On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 01:32 AM, Judith Freed wrote:

With thousands of emails to plow through this is tedious beyond belief.? There must be a better way.

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Judith -- There is a group setting that will delete attachments without your intervention, oldest first, as your group begins to run out of space. Change the "Storage Limit Reached" entry under Message Policies. /helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/customizing-group-settings/message-policy-settings?

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Please note that this setting does not take effect in real time. A job runs once a week, so you will likely have to wait a few days.

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Harnish's instructions will get you to a linked list of those messages that contain attachments (and their sizes). But deleting them manually can only be done by editing each message, one by one. Yes, very tedious. Typically, a few large attachments are responsible for most of the problem. Deleting those should get you under quota fairly quickly.

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There is a GMF wiki page on this at /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/7120 ?

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Hope this helps,

Bruce

Hi Jidi,

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You can access the attachments by selecting, ADMIN - PREFERENCES - UPGRADE, then you will see under Current Plan Free you will see a link to View Attachments. On selecting this you can then select which you wish to delete.

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Hope that helps.

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Hamish

Hi - I have hunted in vain today to find where the Attchments are listed so that I can delete ones that are years old

as my group reaches it's limit.? Since we are free we have the 1 G limitation.? Members of the group know that?

we need to trim the attachments and have downloaded any that they wished to save.??

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I looked in the Member's manual and the instructions there listed a method but the correct path was not

there.? I searched every other possible area that I could find but could not find anyplace that listed the?

attachments so I could delete them manually.? I did find that I could go to the very oldest conversations to

find and delete a single message at a time.? Then I was immediately returned to the very newest message

page.? With thousands of emails to plow through this is tedious beyond belief.? There must be a better way.

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Thanks for any help.

Judi

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 11:54 PM, SafeTex wrote:

Does anyone know what happens if a topic has several hashtags, including one that a user has muted?

Will that topic still reach them due to the other hashtags? Or will it be muted despite all the other hashtags present?

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Simply having other hashtags present does nothing to override a mute, unless those hashtags have properties that also affect email delivery (as Andy noted, #Special is one of them).

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If you've followed one hashtag and muted another, and they both appear in the same message, I don't know which takes precedence. I suspect the follow might, because you must currently have your subscription set to "Following Only" for that to even be an option. But I have not switched my subscription options back and forth and fiddled with hashtag settings enough to test this. I suggest you try to break it and let us know what you find out.

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Regards,

Bruce

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 03:54 AM, SafeTex wrote:

Does anyone know what happens if a topic has several hashtags, including one that a user has muted?

Will that topic still reach them due to the other hashtags? Or will it be muted despite all the other hashtags present?

It can depend upon the settings/attributes of the other hashtags.? The following applies:

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#generalhashtag #muted? => no email sent

#generalhashtag #special #muted => email sent as the Special attribute overrides the mute

#generalhashtag #special #noemail? => no email sent as the No Email attribute overrides the Special

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Andy

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Hello

Does anyone know what happens if a topic has several hashtags, including one that a user has muted?

Will that topic still reach them due to the other hashtags? Or will it be muted despite all the other hashtags present?

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Thanks

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 08:48 PM, Rich Painter wrote:

Are you now saying that the alias be changed from "mhcgfx1b9j+caf_@..." to "mhcgfx1b9j+caf_=p7j3q9k5=groups.io@..." ???

Yes. That's the address that Groups.io is saying is not a member so that's what you should add as an alias.

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Regards,

Andy

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Cannot delete messages.? I am a owner.? Please help.??

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 08:04 PM, Ken Lum wrote:

Wish someone could send me a protocol for me to follow to fix these issues myself so I don’t have to bother anyone for help.

There is no system protocol/tutorial. The system help is useful. It's a little out of date, but . If you display the Owners Manual or the Members Manual as a single page you can use your browser's search functions to find information. The FAQ can also be handy.

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Hope this helps,

Bruce

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 07:04 PM, Ken Lum wrote:

not sure where to find the “Topics View”

When you look at Messages (from the left menu of the group), you have the options of Topics, Messages, Expanded, or Polls.? It's only when you select Topics that you may see preview pictures down the right side.

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Duane

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