Re: #featurerequest Request for Cover Image caption #featurerequest

#26825

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:40 AM, Bruce Bowman wrote:


Paul -- Create a wiki page with the cover photo in that. If you subsequently
make that wiki page sticky (Admin>Settings>Wiki>Sticky Wiki Page) it will
display at the top of the messages. Make sure the image is at the very top of
the wiki page.
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Thanks for that suggestion Bruce.  It maybe will mollify my members missing the image on the messages page.

I haven't used Wiki pages yet and so am not fully clear how it all works.  In any event we do change our Masthead Photo every so often, so hopefully changing out the photo on that Wiki page will be simple to do.  But if it is easy to change just the photo in that Wiki page it sounds like a go.

Comments....  Suggestions?

Paul M.
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Re: #featurerequest Request for Cover Image caption #featurerequest

#26824
Edited

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 12:13 PM, Janis wrote:

Is tgere a way I can make the photo smaller and use less space at the top of my pages?

Use an image editor to resize/crop it. The narrower it is top-to-bottom, the better...too many pixels in the vertical dimension and the bottom will be cut off.

Bruce

Re: #featurerequest Request for Cover Image caption #featurerequest

#26823

Bruce,?
Following your idea, I already have a sticky wiki with text.? If I just edit the wiki page at
by adding a photo and allow text as a caption that shoukd work to make ny text more interesting and noticeable.? Is tgere a way I can make the photo smaller and use less space at the top of my pages?

Re: #featurerequest Request for Cover Image caption #featurerequest

#26822

perhaps instead of having the cover photo as a banner on every page and taking up so much space on our message page, we could have our group icon show at the top of the menu sidebar on every page.? Just the upper left corner, out of tge way of the messages. It would help personalize the group and make our group icon more visible.? ?
I have the sticky wiki page at the top of one of my groups as a banner,. Presently it is only a text statement of our mission statement, but using Bruce's suggestion, I may add the text to a photo and use that as the sticky wiki banner at the top of the pages.

Be aware that a photo or banner at the top of the page takes up space on the message page, so you may be scrolling more and turning pages more because of having it.

Not receiving notifications for messages needing moderation

#26821

开云体育

Thanks, Christopher! This solved my problem!

I was unaware of the backscatter setting.

--
Jim Ratliff
jim@...
http://virtualperfection.com/jim/

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On Dec 29, 2019, at 22:16 PM, Christopher W. <lists@...> wrote:

On 2019-12-29 at 11:51:16 PM, Jim Ratliff <jim@...> wrote:

I was unpleasantly surprised to find that I had been unaware for several
days of several messages that were in the Pending queue awaiting
moderation.
...
I have looked in my spam filter.

I looked at the MX record for jim-ratliff.name, and it looks like you're
using FastMail. Check your Backscatter spam settings [1]. If it's set to
discard, then the moderations messages aren't making it to you. The way that
sends messages needing moderator approval triggers FastMail's
backscatter filter, which is separate from it's spam filter.

If you've been getting a bunch of backscatter spam and don't want to change
the setting from discard, you can use a bit of custom Sieve code (under
Rules in settings) [2] to move the moderation messages before the
backscatter discard rule kicks in.

Put something like this before the "3. Sieve generated for spam protection"
section.

# -- begin Sieve code --

# moderation messages get identified as backscatter by FastMail.
# This runs before the backscatter rule and stops processing, so they end up
# in the right folder.
if allof(
?????address :is ["from"] ["[email protected]"]
???, header :matches :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" ["Subject"] ["Message Approval Needed*"]
??) {
???# Adjust this folder path as needed.
???fileinto "INBOX.Lists.Mod";
???stop;
}

# -- end Sieve code --

[1]:
[2]:

A fellow FastMail user,
--
Christopher W. <lists@...>

Re: #featurerequest Request for Cover Image caption #featurerequest

#26820

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:28 AM, Epicatt2 wrote:

I've been wondering whether it would be possible or practical to have an option to also show our Home Page (Masthead) photo at the top of the Message page. Would seem to be a reasonably simple thing to do. Don't know how practical is its though from a programming standpont.

Paul -- Create a wiki page with the cover photo in that. If you subsequently make that wiki page sticky (Admin>Settings>Wiki>Sticky Wiki Page) it will display at the top of the messages. Make sure the image is at the very top of the wiki page.

The wiki editor will force you to enter some text, but if you simply flank the image with a couple of periods that seems to satisfy the save dialog and doesn't look too objectionable.

Bruce

Re: #featurerequest Request for Cover Image caption #featurerequest

#26819

Mike,

We copied the image.? Went into MS-PAINT (or image editor), picked a font and entered the text.? Located the text to look nice.? Saved the JPG.? Uploaded the image.? Sure, it's different than the way YG did it, but still gets the job done.
?
You can see our main page image here ...

?
Bret

Re: Migrated from Yahoo, how to best stop old group posts?

#26818

We have setup an automated email that goes out to our old YG daily. This has helped GREATLY to stop the postings over there and people have then joined GroupsIO over here.?

It states ...
?
Hello,
?
Welcome to the Yanmar Tractor Owners group at Yahoo! Groups, a
discontinued, unmoderated, and with no owner, nor action group.?
This is now a closed restricted group, no new members are allowed join.?
?
Our group has already MOVED to the free, easy-to-use email GroupsIO service.
GroupsIO has no affiliation to Yahoo! Groups.
Please take a moment to review this message.
?
To learn more about the Yanmar Tractor Owners group new site, please visit
https://yanmar-tractor-owners.groups.io
?
If you do not wish to continually see this message, then
unsubscribe by sending an email to
yanmartractorownersgroup-unsubscribe@...
?
To see and modify all of your Yahoo! Groups, go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups
?
Yahoo! Groups LEGAL NOTICE and set terms to abide by with active membership:?
Your use of Yahoo Groups is subject to http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms

Re: Download members list

#26817

OK, figured it out on my own.? No help needed.

Re: #featurerequest Request for Cover Image caption #featurerequest

#26816

To add to Mike's thoughts about captioning the photo on the Home Page (which I believe would be a useful option to have) I would like to report that a number of members on my group when we moved from Y!G to GIO complained about no longer seeing the Masthead Photo on the Message page (which was the case on YGroups).

I've been wondering whether it would be possible or practical to have an option to also show our Home Page (Masthead) photo at the top of the Message page.  Would seem to be a reasonably simple thing to do.  Don't know how practical is its though from a programming standpont.

It would be interesting to hear other GMF members' thoughts about this.

Just curious . . .

Paul M.
CostaRicaLiving
https: //groups.io/g/CostaRicaLiving
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Re: Can we disable 'Likes'? #featurerequest

#26815

Frances,

Yes, it's the FULL FEATURED DIGEST.? I had started out with INDIVIDUAL, but having hundreds of emails in my inbox from a weekend made me choke. :)

Bret

Re: Message was not distributed

#26814

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:22 AM, Alois Treindl wrote:

I found out how to delete all existing hashtags (#chat was set to mute, and probably caused the Message and my reply not to be sent out).

Glad you figured it out.

i also changed forum settings so members cannot create new hashtags.

That will help, but groups.io system hashtags such as #chat, #poll and #cal-reminder will still be generated.

i find it an unlucky choice by the system creators to define a mute hashtag. It destroys the expected behaviour of a mailing list.?

Muting is not a function of the hashtag, it's a function of your subscription. If #chat was muted, it's because you muted it, and thus those emails did not go out to you. They should have been received by everyone else.

You can unmute a hashtag at?/mutedhashtags

Bruce

Re: Message was not distributed

#26813

I found out how to delete all existing hashtags (#chat was set to mute, and probably caused the Message and my reply not to be sent out).
i also changed forum settings so members cannot create new hashtags.

i find it an unlucky choice by the system creators to define a mute hashtag. It destroys the expected behaviour of a mailing list.?

Re: #featurerequest Request for Cover Image caption #featurerequest

#26812

In the absence of a cover image caption feature, you could always use a image editing program (e.g., ) to put the desired text right on the image before uploading it.

? -- Bob

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On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 10:49 AM Michael L. Stokes <stokes@...> wrote:

Sometimes a cover image is just so interesting that folks would like to know more about it, or maybe you would like to give someone credit for the image, and a host of other reasons.?

Additionally (or optionally), It would also be nice to specificity where the caption goes relative to the image (top, bottom, left, right), its justification (+ or - 90 degrees), its orientation, its color, including the option of being overlaid within the boundary of the image itself.

--Mike

Download members list

#26811

I see this from the help page:

How Can I Download My Member List And Message Archive?

On Groups.io, navigate to your group. To download your complete member list, click on the Members tab under the Admin tab in the sidebar. From there you will be able to download your member list.

But I don't understand what happens when I do that.? I click download and then a new tab webpage opens with the data all separated with commas.? What I really want is a CSV file that I can open via Excel with everything separated out into columns.? I'm only familiar with doing it that way.? Will someone help instruct me with the steps to opening this up in Excel.? I tried to copy the data that came up on the webpage, made it a txt file, then tried to open it via Excel using any and all delimiters, but nothing worked.

What's the right way of doing this?

Re: Message was not distributed

#26810

Yes, the thread in question had a hashtag #chat.

i must say that I dislike hashtags in all messages. Can I as group owner ?get rid if all if them completely?

I want the mailing list to behave as traditionally as possible without any extra features, except ?allowing ?attachments.

#featurerequest Request for Cover Image caption #featurerequest

#26809

Sometimes a cover image is just so interesting that folks would like to know more about it, or maybe you would like to give someone credit for the image, and a host of other reasons.?

Additionally (or optionally), It would also be nice to specificity where the caption goes relative to the image (top, bottom, left, right), its justification (+ or - 90 degrees), its orientation, its color, including the option of being overlaid within the boundary of the image itself.

--Mike

Re: Message was not distributed

#26808

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 07:03 AM, Alois Treindl wrote:

It was however never emailed to the group members.

i replied to it in the web interface, and that reply was also not distrubuted via email to group members.

Another possibility...did the second post have a hashtag??If so, check that hashtag's settings. It is possible to set up a hashtag such that it isn't emailed out ("Messages with this tag will not be emailed to the group."). If you replied via the web interface, the hashtag would have carried over and also not been sent.

It seems more likely that these two posts were filtered as spam, though.

Bruce

Re: MIA submissions

#26807

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 07:39 PM, y@es wrote:

I sent a post to an active group where I'm also a moderator.
It silently vanished.
I re-sent. Nada.

They do not appear at the management console.

Any idea what to check first?

Are you sure that you sent the post to Groups.io?
Not to Yahoo Groups?
As I mentioned, check activity in Admin. See earlier email.

Frances
?
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Moving to Groups.io (without easy transfer)

GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers

Re: Message was not distributed

#26806

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 07:03 AM, Alois Treindl wrote:

I had seen in my email too messages by the same new member.
i responded to the first one, to let it go through.
it was then normally distributed to the mailing list.

This is normal behavior.?Until you approve at least one message, the subscriber remains on NuM, and all messages posted by that subscriber will be held, even if you've only set it up for one.

without any action on my side, the second message by same new member also appeared in the group messages in the web interface.

This is not normal. Although the subscriber was taken off NuM with your first approval, the second post should have remained in moderation. Could someone else -- perhaps a second Moderator -- have approved it? Check your Activity log.

It was however never emailed to the group members.

How do you know this? I could be that you're the only one who didn't get it.?

i replied to it in the web interface, and that reply was also not distrubuted via email to group members.

It sounds as if your own email provider has begun to reject (or at least throttle) group messages. Check your spam/junk folder to see if the posts landed there. Also check your own Email Delivery History (button at the top of your Subscription page). This should show you if groups.io is having any difficulties delivering messages to you.

Good luck,
Bruce