Re: Are other groups seeing lots of possibly spammy registration attempts?
#membership
Well, again, I have gone to the same lengths that J_Catlady has, and sent a personal email - from my personal account, not via groups.io - to try and prod people to look for the message in their spam
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Jeff Powell <jrpstonecarver@...>
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Re: Are other groups seeing lots of possibly spammy registration attempts?
#membership
This is what I've been saying for a long time. And not just the pending member notices - the confirmation emails, too. I think those might be even worse. I've often re-sent and re-sent them, to no
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#1226
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Re: Are other groups seeing lots of possibly spammy registration attempts?
#membership
Jeff, Me too. 1) I was going to suggest looking at the Email Delivery History tab for the pending member, to see if Groups.io delivered it to his/her email service successfully or not. But in a trial
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Shal Farley
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Re: Are other groups seeing lots of possibly spammy registration attempts?
#membership
p.s. There is another group I'm a member of which also carries this warning on their home page ("please look for the questionnaire and notify us if you didn't receive it" etc.). So I don't think this
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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Re: Are other groups seeing lots of possibly spammy registration attempts?
#membership
Jeff, In our group's case, several times after contacting the pending member through my own email address (outside of the system) and asking them to check their spam file for the notice, they've
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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Re: Are other groups seeing lots of possibly spammy registration attempts?
#membership
Understood. That's partly why I sent email by hand, from my personal account (not from groups.io) to the subscribing addresses. I figured such emails wouldn't be as obviously routed into the spam
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Jeff Powell <jrpstonecarver@...>
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Re: Groups.io site updates
#changelog
LeeAnne, I wouldn't assume "never", but it probably won't be a priority and might end up as practically never unless he get's some push-back on the issue. Mark's #changelog item didn't go into any
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Shal Farley
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Re: Are other groups seeing lots of possibly spammy registration attempts?
#membership
I haven't really seen this because most of my groups allow immediate membership. I do have them set to moderate the first few messages from a new member (NuM), so I could catch spammers (though there
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Duane
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Re: Are other groups seeing lots of possibly spammy registration attempts?
#membership
Yes, they're going into spam!!! We have this problem in our group, too. J
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#1219
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Are other groups seeing lots of possibly spammy registration attempts?
#membership
Hi All, Our group here - with over 2000 members - is in the middle of a series of some of the worst rainstorms in recent history in our area. As we are a neighborhood group, we're getting a lot of new
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Jeff Powell <jrpstonecarver@...>
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Re: Logging in to Yahoo Groups
Janice, Misplaced question. That's what I get for approving in haste via smartphone, I didn't notice that you posted here rather than in Y!GMF. In any case, no. I didn't have a problem signing into
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Shal Farley
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Logging in to Yahoo Groups
Sometimes, I find it necessary to log in to my old Yahoo Group. ?When I try, I am getting the purple error bar at the bottom. ?I tried logging in to other Yahoo Groups I belong to and get the same
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weebeequilting <weebee.1@...>
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#1216
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Re: Groups.io site updates
#changelog
Drats! ?Also wanted to say how much I love these updates of yours. ?I am not techy and am up to eyeballs with busy in our group so don't have time to try to understand and follow Beta. ? These
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LeeAnne
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Re: Groups.io site updates
#changelog
Late as usual but Shal, our group totally miss the ability to view PDF without downloading. ?So much so I was hoping someday the same would happen with Word docs. ?We have 9 pages of folders all of
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LeeAnne
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Groups.io site updates
#changelog
Hi all, Not much caught my interest in this week's message from Mark about updates to the site: /g/beta/message/12720 Feel free to reply to this topic if you'd like to comment on the
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Shal Farley
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Re: Groups.io site updates
#changelog
Brenda, In each thread-starter I've included a link back to Mark's posting in beta@ so that interested people can easily go see what else he said. I've not attempted to track down any further
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Shal Farley
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#1212
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Re: Groups.io site updates
#changelog
Brenda, This thread (and its siblings) is a good place to ask for explanations. Two down. We'll see if I can keep up. I'm using the same #changelog tag as he uses in beta, you can use it to follow or
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Shal Farley
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#1211
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Re: Groups.io site updates
#changelog
Nightowl >8# wrote:>>This would help me greatly. I am trying to keep up with the groups better, and have separated Mark's weekly #changelog posts from the others so I can read them better, but
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Nightowl >8#
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Re: Groups.io site updates
#changelog
Shal Farley wrote:>>Also, any reactions this synopsis/reaction message? Is it worth making a habit of it?<< This would help me greatly. I am trying to keep up with the groups better, and have
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Nightowl >8#
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Wiki
Is there a way to transfer a wiki from Google Sites? Sharon ---- Bus parking permits requested for Inauguration Day: 200. For the Women¡¯s March: 1,200. ¡ªWashington Post, 13 January 2017
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Sharon Villines
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