On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 07:52 am, Gerald Boutin wrote:

?Sorry, I have to ask. What does "Delete Account functionality" mean?

The "Delete Account" button actually does something now.

Bruce

ALL quoting removed.
Thanks again Shal, your places to look helped 1+1 at least understand the problem.

Part 1)
I'm at 1+1WEBmail and would like to post a picture of these "stupid" buttons.
(Sent from it here might only look attached I guess?)
(If that fails I'll resend it from .IO-WEB)

Part 2)
I'm using a "1+1-workaround" for the dups problem as part of this send.
I'm asking SHAL ONLY to say if he got one or two replies.

IF he says one, ON Group, the thread will seem closed and can be locked.
Thanks to everyone.

Rick

Sent from my 1+1 WEBmail.

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 10:36 pm, Bruce Bowman wrote:

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 06:42 pm, Shal Farley wrote:

NEW: Delete account functionality, without having to contact support.

This is nice to have, especially for Mark as the number of subscribers continues to climb.

He even updated the FAQ page!

Bruce

?Sorry, I have to ask. What does "Delete Account functionality" mean?

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Dear all,

With a good person's help I moved my three Yahoo lists over to groups.io and all has been splendid. I'm writing because I still go over to Yahoo once a week a so to see if say anyone has emailed there by mistake. This morning I tried to go over because I saw a repeating nonsensical email had turned up on one of my lists and discovered I couldn't reach Yahoo? groups at the portal I had used because I was confronted by a demand I sign up for an account as a yahoo person. I am not sure I should do this lest that means I sign out on my regular gmail address (above).?

Can anyone tell me what is happening? is this a ploy to force me to have a different email at Yahoo? would I lose the email that enabled me to be a listowner/moderator of these three yahoo sites for a number of years? Or just click yes and go on? Or should I now forget yahoo exists? I have been on other lists there where I have a few friends and am used sometimes to go over to these few. I'd have to give them up or just hope to maintain contact through gmail.

Ellen Moody

In case if may be helpful to others struggling with attachments, here's a draft of what I'll post on Nordhavn Owners Group as we roll out attachments on a trial basis:

Attachments on Nordhavn Owners Group

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Your moderator team has been experimenting with attachments on Nordhavn Owners Group over the past few days, and this post is to announce that the attachments feature is now enabled on NOG on a trial basis and is ready for use.??The trial will continue for 30 days?unless we see the need to jump in and make fixes or corrections sooner.?

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In our?Feb. 15?post on NOG, we said that the new NOG on Groups.io would be rolled out without attachments enabled.??That was to allow the moderator team to focus first on getting members and data moved over and on assuring functionality.??We’ve crossed that bridge now, and our recent poll indicates that by and large NOG members are satisfied with how things are going.??Altogether, 62 respondents (about 70.5% of those responding) said they believe either that NOG should definitely allow attachments or that we should enable attachments on a trial basis, then evaluate and decide. More respondents feel that we should use the trial, and then decide, than any other single choice. That’s the route we’re taking.

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Something we very much like about NOG here on Groups.io is that we have much more flexibility than we had on Yahoo Groups.?Groups.io allows us to turn on the attachment feature, but if YOU don’t want to receive attachments it allows you as a member to turn off attachments for yourself.??On the other hand, if you want to receive attachments, you can also do that—and set the maximum size of the attachments you receive from the group.??You can make changes any time you want.

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When we originally set up NOG on Groups.io, we set the default maximum attachment size for all members at 100 kilobytes (KB).??That’s a very small attachment (picture or file), but we wanted to take a conservative approach.???Now that attachments have been enabled for NOG, you need to edit your own NOG subscription to reflect what you want in the way of attachments.

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Question 1:??Do you want to receive attachments?

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Question 2:??What’s the maximum size attachment you want to receive?

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Once you’ve answered those questions, here’s how you change the settings for your subscription:

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1.?????Go online to NOG’s home page at:?/g/nog

2.?????On the left side menu, click on: Subscription

3.?????Scroll down the page, then click on: Advanced Preferences

? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4.???Scroll further down the page to Max Attachment Size and?you’ll be able to select the maximum?size of attachments to sent to you in emails. For attachments larger than the size you select, hyperlinks to retrieve the attachments, rather than the attachments themselves, will be sent to you.??You can choose from:

????????????????????????Unlimited – no limit on the size of attachments you will receive

????????????????????????0 – no attachments will sent to you

????????????????????????100 KB

????????????????????????500 KB

????????????????????????5 MB

????????????? 5.???Once you’ve made your selection, scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click on SAVE.

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If you don't know what size to pick, we recommend 500 KB as a conservative setting to start.? If you need to, you can easily change it later by coming back to these instructions.

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That’s all there is to it!

Be aware that subscription (and other) settings are specific for each Group.io group you belong to.? So, for example, the fact that you are receiving attachments from Nordhavn Dreamers doesn’t mean you will receive them from NOG.? You have to go to Advanced Settings for each group, individually, to make it happen for each for each group.? There’s no one-size-fits-all setting for all your Groups.io groups!

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To reiterate:??For NOG, you can choose to receive no attachments or, if you want to receive attachments, you can specify the max attachment size allowed in messages you receive. If an attachment is larger than your max size, you'll get a hyperlink to it on the Groups.io website instead.??Change this as often as you like.??For example: if you’re in a marina or at home where you have a great Internet connection and unlimited bandwidth, go ahead and set attachments to unlimited.??On the other hand, if you’re underway, using an expensive satellite connection, and watching your data usage carefully, it makes sense to disable attachments for the time being.??You’re in control!

If you choose not to receive attachments through NOG, any posts which include attachments will be sent to you normally.?Instead of receiving the attachments and having to download them, you’ll receive a hyperlink where you can go to download the attachment at a time of your choice—but only if you choose to.??Again, you’re in control!

SENDING ATTACHMENTS.??If you want to send an attachment with an email post, send it just as you would send an attachment with any email and address it to NOG at the following address:?[email protected]???Or simply go to NOG online at?/g/nog, click on New Topic on the left side menu, and make a post.??Be sure to click the Attachment (paperclip) icon above the text box for your post and attach your file or photo.

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If you’re sending attachments, there’s something to keep in mind.??First, the system will take any image over the size limit you have chosen and downscale it to fit the Max Attachment Size you’ve selected. Then it adds up all the attachments in the email or post. If that TOTAL is over the limit it sends hyperlinks instead of the original photos or files. So if you want your photos to get through unscathed, you'll have better luck sending one image per email instead of 5 or 10 images in a single email.

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If you really want to dig deeper, here’s more information on the subject:

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Files in general:?
-- All files and photos, whether uploaded or attached to emails, count against NOG total storage allocation

(currently 1 GB).??We ask that you be conservative with your attachments!
-- Once we reach our limit, file attachments to emails will be deleted (oldest first) to remain under quota.
-- Files and photos in member archives can only be deleted manually.
-- Each file in "permanent" storage shrinks the email-attachment queue by a corresponding amount.

Photos specifically:
-- All photos are resized to 2048 pixels or smaller in the longest dimension. This should be more than adequate for viewing online.
-- If you are concerned about loss of photo quality by being rescaled by the server, you should rescale the photo yourself before sending.
-- Anyone with a real need to share print-quality images should upload them to cloud storage and send a link instead.

Email attachment limits:
-- Keep in mind that some email servers will refuse to deliver emails if they get too big.
-- To keep emails from bouncing, if the size exceeds 5 MB, hyperlinks will be sent.
-- Because they are stored on the server, you must log in to?/g/nog?to view/download them.

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Milt Baker

for the NOG Moderator Team

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 05:01 am, maggie cooper wrote:

BT uses Yahoo as it's mail delivery partner, that is why I never asked my members with Yahoo mail addresses to choose another mail provider.

Sorry; not universally true. It started to split away from Yahoo a few years ago, and then stopped for some reason, leaving some on a Yahoo - provided service and others not. I am one of the "nots".

See

Regards,

Chris

Mark, BT uses Yahoo as it's mail delivery partner, that is why I never asked my members with Yahoo mail addresses to choose another mail provider.?
''?It is perhaps too easy to assume that they do know how to "train" their mail provider, assuming that the provider actually makes proper provision for it; as stated above I am not entirely convinced that Yahoo (for example) does''
I have Yahoo mail and found several Groups.io mails in the spam folder the first week in February, ticked them and selected '' Not Spam'' at which point they were transferred to the Inbox, since then no other Groups.io mails have shown up in my spam folder folder. I should add I don't have a mail handler on my computer and deal with mail at server level.

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 05:15 pm, Shal Farley wrote:

Of course this question may be moot, as Mark has somewhat clarified his position on this. In part he says:

"- Having a 'forcing function' that gets people to train spam filters to
not mark Groups.io email as spam hopefully decreases the future
likelihood of emails being marked as spam"

I can see the rationale behind this. However, I find myself wondering about "training spam filters"; precisely what does it mean?

My ISP is BT (I'm in the UK) although I normally use Outlook as my email client. When we first migrated to Groups.io I found that quite a few messages from Groups.io were being diverted by BT (or whoever!) having marked them as spam, so unless I went looking for them they were invisible. My immediate workaround was to switch all spam filtering off - obviously not without risk but at the moment the result is manageable. I had a delve around earlier today and there is a setting in the BT email system for designating ":groups.io" emails as not being spam. However, I also have a Yahoo mail account only because it was unavoidable as a Yahoo Group member (several of them) & moderator (of one). Try as I might I cannot find a corresponding means of defining safe senders; yes I can mark individual emails as "not spam" but how many times would I have to do that for Yahoo to "learn" that @groups.io messages were safe? Would it ever actually learn that?

Is Yahoo the exception, with ALL other mail providers allowing specified senders to be marked as being safe? Is it too easy to assume that individual members will be able to know where to look, and be bothered (& have the confidence!) to go and do it? I know that members have to take care of the majority of their own on - line welfare, up to a point anyway. It is perhaps too easy to assume that they do know how to "train" their mail provider, assuming that the provider actually makes proper provision for it; as stated above I am not entirely convinced that Yahoo (for example) does. Expecting members to have to mark numerous messages as "not spam" in the hope that their provider might eventually see the light might just be expecting too much. With such a proliferation of Mail Providers it is almost certainly too simple to expect there to be a "one size fits all" instruction to members.

There is probably no "best" solution to all this. just a "least worst" one.

Regards,

Chris

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Wim van Dam,

Today (March 31) I noticed that on the home page of my group, the
Message History has already started counting two posts towards April.
The posts were all well before midnight, Pacific Time. I'm trying to
figure out why this happened, ...

The table is built using GMT (UTC+00:00) times. April first arrives eight hours earlier in that time zone than in Pacific time.

and of course how I can correct this.

You can't correct it. You could file it as a bug to [email protected], or suggest on beta that it be corrected.

There is an associated bug: while the table is built in GMT, the links in it are searching for the messages in your local time zone. That inconsistency is certainly a bug, no matter which way you think the table should be.
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/5382

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Shal, thank you for the explanation. I wasn?t sure because in other places the term "archives" was changed into "messages".
Victoria
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In the context of Moderator Permissions it refers to the ability to edit messages that have been posted in the group's Messages
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I'm not certain if it affects the moderator's ability to edit anything else.

Shal

[I'm fresh to all of?this. Apologies if this is a FAQ. I could not find its answer though.]

Today (March 31) I noticed that on the home page of my group, the Message History has already started counting two posts towards April. The posts were all well before midnight, Pacific Time. I'm trying to figure out why this happened, and of course how I can correct this. Any pointers??

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Thanks

Wim van Dam

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 06:42 pm, Shal Farley wrote:

NEW: Delete account functionality, without having to contact support.

This is nice to have, especially for Mark as the number of subscribers continues to climb.

He even updated the FAQ page!

Bruce

Sharon,

I set up a custom invitation message but my message is just inserted
in the middle of the default.
...
How do I start from scratch?

As Duane said, you don't. But here's a mitigation idea:
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/5779

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Jim,

The header at the top of his posts (I am moderating all posts) has
"his name via Groups.Io < Word1.Word2 @..." where a
typical post of mine just has "name via groups.io"...

As Duane said, that goes with certain email services, AOL and Yahoo Mail among them.

What brought this to my attention is that his posts also are lacking a
"Reply to Sender" link. This is starting cause a lot of trouble in
that folks reply to the entire list instead of just him.

Perhaps he's posting in plain text (like this message)?

Plain text messages have a different footer because you can't have true links in plain text - the full URL is always shown.

I'm assuming your group's Reply-To is normally set to "Group", if so then your members should follow the link to "View/Reply Online" if they want to reply to that member alone. When forming their reply they would click the "Private" button over to the right to switch from group to personal reply.

Or, use copy/paste in their email program, but then they have to fix-up his address (delete the @groups.io part and change the "=" to an "@").

Another option is that you could check the "Force HTML Emails" box in the Message Formatting section your group's Settings page. Then all members will have the formatted footer.

Shal


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Robert,

I don't know what STMP is, but I have a user who claims that Groups.io does not, but? needs to, support his STMP alias of {redacted}.

If he's looking for the equivalent of an Alternate Posting Address in Yahoo Groups, then he can add it to his Groups.io Account page. He should click on his name in the upper right corner of a Groups.io page (when logged in to his primary address) and in the drop-menu select Account.

At the bottom of the page is a section for Advanced Settings For Email Aliases:

If he's looking for the ability to use a single login account with groups having different subscribed addresses then he's out of luck - Groups.io doesn't support that (yet?) nor is there a way to move subscriptions from one account to another nor to merge accounts.

If he means something else then we're going to need clarification on what he's talking about.

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Hi all,

This week's change log:


Feel free to reply to this topic if you'd like to comment on the
changes. Or better yet, if you expect a lot of discussion start a new
topic (or rejoin an existing one) about a specific change.

FIX: Fixed wording in the message visibility sections of the create
group and create sub group pages.

To be consistent with the prior changes to the group Settings page.


Comments about these others are also welcome:

CHANGE: For groups with reply-to set to sender, include List-Post
header in single messages.
NEW: Delete account functionality, without having to contact support.
BUGFIX: In a plain text message, if someone enclosed a link in <
and >, we included the trailing > in the link.
BUGFIX: Don't send event reminders and notices for cancelled events.
CHANGE: If a wiki has a sidebar or footer, disable the 'Add a Sidebar'

or 'Add a Footer' button instead of making them disappear.


Please call out any you find significant.

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I'm an award winning volunteer beta tester . ( Not there.)
My theory is let them know so they can fix it.
That is best for everyone.

Rick

Chris,

1. Prefer Member's delivery to be changed to "No Mail" with web access
still available; Membership Retained
2. Prefer to leave things as they are; Membership Deleted

Of course this question may be moot, as Mark has somewhat clarified his position on this. In part he says:

"- Having a 'forcing function' that gets people to train spam filters to
not mark Groups.io email as spam hopefully decreases the future
likelihood of emails being marked as spam"


I read that as hinting that "dismemberment" is in part a deliberately severe response, in service of the greater good.

To pitch the idea back in beta I really think the only rational option to (2) is to propose a separate subscription status. Call it "Reported" or something appropriate as a parallel to "Bounced".

But the easier you make it for the member to reset the status the weaker it will be as a "forcing function". And for that reason I wouldn't propose to allow a group moderator to reset it; at best a moderator should be able to send a notice to the member about it.

Shal


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