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Re: Unable to reply to messages here: https://beta.groups.io/

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:44 PM, Janie wrote:
Am I missing a way to reply??
Janie -- If you have subscribed to the group, there should be a reply button.?Also, all messages in beta are currently being moderated and most of them are not being approved. See?

Bruce
Re: 500 This is an announcement group and you do not have permission to post to it.

 

The owner has set up the group for announcements from owners and moderators only.
If you are owner, you can change that.

Go to Admin, Settings, Spam Control.
Change to restricted if you wish to approve members before they join. If you don't want this, untick all those but make sure that you have New Users Moderated and change the number of posts before they are unmoderated.

See?Wiki - Quick Start for Group Formation
#1 Spam Control.

Frances
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Unable to reply to messages here: https://beta.groups.io/

 

Am I missing a way to reply??
500 This is an announcement group and you do not have permission to post to it.

 

some members are getting this message.....
Re: White-listing a group

 

Okay, so to close this loop and I know this gets away from Groups.io a little bit, the only thing that I have been able to do with Comcast is turn off the spam filter on my email account all together. I was unable to find any way to customize that filter to allow certain email/senders/domains through. So far it has worked, as the email from that one group is now coming to my inbox. Hopefully, I don't get inundated with true spam.?

If I do, I'll still be appreciative if anyone has any further advice on filtering. It still baffles me why only one group triggers the spam filter. Is it possible that the name of the group is one word that begins with 5 capitalized letters?

Dave
Re: Welcome Message Not Sent After Transition

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:21 AM, Barb LeBrasseur wrote:
In my message #23297 Nov 12, i described the trouble I'm having with the Welcome Message too. All the Member Notices actually. They've disappeared and no amount of "Add" new notice seems to work.
You are scrolling down and saving the changes, right? Update notice.

Frances
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Re: invitee doesn?t appear in the members list

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:02 PM, Victoria wrote:

I invited someone twice into my group, but the person does not show up as a member even though she has accepted the invitation. She logges herself in and her name and account are visible to her on the home page, she can read mails, but she can?t write mails, and she doesn?t see files and databases, photos and so on.

Which cause could this have?

This suggests that she's logged in with a different email address than the one you sent the invitation to.?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Group-Content-Is-Missing

When troubleshooting something like this, it's important to think in terms of email addresses, not the people they belong to. As far as groups.io is concerned, each email address is a different person.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
Re: Second group to move

Eric Johnson
 

Shal and Bruce, I appreciate the both of you holding my hand in the midst of all the turmoil. Thank-you.

I've looked at the sub-groups section of "Admin" and there's one thing I want to be certain I understand. The description merges the sample into an email address. How does the sub-group(s) work when reading online? Are messages presented to the users purely in accord with the "visibility" rules? What about people who are members of both the "members" and the "board"? Do they get two copies or does groups.io have the logic that says "once is enough"?

Since we can't be certain that all Board members are also members of the main group, what would be the construct using "NAIA..." and "Members" and "Board"? I'll suggest that NAIAandANIATrust be shortened. It was a name that was convenient 10 years ago.

I'm using a rather careful approach as this is something we never considered and if mis-handled, can't be easily undone.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Shal Farley
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2019 11:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] Second group to move

Eric,

> It would make sense the use NAIAandNAIATrust as the domain (I think it > would be called) and then use Members and Board as the two sub-groups.

Yes, except that Members may as well be the name of the primary group, replacing the default of "main", as Bruce suggested. That is assuming that all board members are also members of the organization.

That's what I do with my PTA group.
The primary is Members@ unitname.groups.io while the board is Board@ unitname.groups.io (subgroup)

We also have other subgroups, such as teachers@, and staff@, as well as temporary subgroups sometimes for volunteers organizing an event.

My only other comment is that "NAIAandNAIATrust" seems a bit awkward, even if accurate. I'd be really tempted to shorten it to one or the other, if that wouldn't be completely incorrect.

For example, if NAIATrust is in some sense a subset of NAIA (at least as far as participation is concerned) then you might have:
Members@ NAIA.groups.io (primary)
Trust@ NAIA.groups.io (subgroup)
Board@ NAIA.groups.io (subgroup)

Shal


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invitee doesn?t appear in the members list

 

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Hi,

I invited someone twice into my group, but the person does not show up as a member even though she has accepted the invitation. She logges herself in and her name and account are visible to her on the home page, she can read mails, but she can?t write mails, and she doesn?t see files and databases, photos and so on.

Which cause could this have?

Victoria
Re: My replies to posts not showing up in messages on web

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:30 AM, Wayne Hulehan wrote:
Am I missing something?
Your attachment show that there are 2 messages in that Topic (you're in Topic view). Clicking on the title should open it in a new page with both of them displayed.

Duane
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Re: trouble with active member notices #membernotices

 

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:08 AM, Barb LeBrasseur wrote:
Anyone else having trouble with their member notices?
Apparently not or they'd have replied.? I just checked my groups and everything works as expected, whether adding a notice or updating an existing one.

Duane
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My replies to posts not showing up in messages on web

 

When I reply to all to a question to me, it does not show under messages on web site.
Am I missing something?


Re: Problem response uploading member addresses

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:21 AM, CVActor wrote:
It¡¯s a one column table in A word document
You can't use Word documents as is.? It has to be saved as Plain Text before copying/pasting into the Invite box.? Bruce's instructions should get you there.

Duane
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Re: Is there a way to automatically respond to people posting in my old yahoo group telling them to move to groups.io? #yahoo

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 03:31 PM, Adam Carlson wrote:
I've put my old yahoo group in full moderate mode so that if anyone tries posting there it won't go through and I will get a message asking me to moderate the post. Then I email them and tell them we've moved to groups.io.
Taking the above at face value you would appear not to have put out a (Yahoo) group - wide announcement saying that the Yahoo group is now closed and has relocated to <Group Name> at Groups.io. You then tell members one by one about the move on a "per occasion" basis.

This seems to be very wasteful of your time; I would set your Yahoo group to "Announcement" which allows you to post as its owner (along with any other moderators) but no - one else. Then send a message to it (which by definition is now an Announcement) telling members that the group is now once and for all "closed" and all business transferred to the new group.

Chris
Re: Welcome Message Not Sent After Transition

 

In my message #23297 Nov 12, i described the trouble I'm having with the Welcome Message too. All the Member Notices actually. They've disappeared and no amount of "Add" new notice seems to work.
Re: Problem response uploading member addresses

 

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I will try that tonight. Thank you!


On Nov 15, 2019, at 9:35 AM, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:

?On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 08:40 AM, CVActor wrote:
Everything was in a text document in a one-column table.
Cindi -- This is the clue. There is no such thing as a "table" in a plain text file.

To convert Excel to plain text, do the following:
  1. Select the column containing the email addresses
  2. Type Ctrl-C to copy that column to your clipboard
  3. Open a new Word document and paste it into that
  4. Highlight the resulting table again
  5. Type "convert table to text" into the help box. In the dialog, select "separate text with paragraph marks"
  6. From the File menu, select "Save As"
  7. Save as type Plain Text (*.txt)
  8. In the resulting dialog, select MS-DOS text encoding and CR/LF line breaks
The resulting file should be acceptable to the groups.io invitation "Upload Addresses" dialog. If there's any extraneous stuff present and you don't want those lines to throw an error, you can open the file one last time and trim it using Notepad.

Bruce

Re: Problem response uploading member addresses

 

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It¡¯s a one column table in A word document, and I uploaded it on the invite page. So you¡¯re saying I should type all the info into the invite block? I was just trying to direct add the members addresses.


On Nov 15, 2019, at 8:48 AM, Duane <txpigeon@...> wrote:

?On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:40 AM, CVActor wrote:
117 email addresses were processed.Yet none were added. How do I fix this?
You need to enter the information on the Invite page using plain text only.? From the response you got, it appears that you're including other formatting information, probably html.

Duane
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Re: Including the message being responded to

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 03:51 PM, Duane wrote:
When replying online, you can also highlight the text from the message that you want to include before clicking Reply (as I've done here.)
As indeed have I.

I fully accept that personal preference does come into it, but selective quoting is a far better option than overquoting; left unchecked this can become a pernicious problem. Every now and then you are likely to find that the nth post in a thread quotes the (n-1) posts that preceded it, and (n-1) copies of the first post in a thread are rarely of much benefit.

Chris
Re: Is there a way to automatically respond to people posting in my old yahoo group telling them to move to groups.io? #yahoo

 

On 15 Nov 2019 16:14, Adam Carlson wrote:

I've put my old yahoo group in full moderate mode so that if anyone tries posting there it won't go through and I will get a message asking me to moderate the post. Then I email them and tell them we've moved to groups.io.
Is there a way to automate this process? Can I have Yahoo auto-respond to posters with a message of my own creation?
Not that I'm aware of. When you upload a file, you can set that file to be sent to members regularly, or when the member joins, leaves or is banned, but not whenever any member attempts to post a message.

I do recall being sent a file that appeared to have been sent automatically when I tried to join certain Yahoogroups in the past, but I have no idea where to set that up, and I now suspect that the moderators of those groups simply sent out that file manually.

If you find that many people do this, you may wish to consider removing any members from the list who have successfully subscribed to the IO group, and sending a special notice to the rest once a month.

Another thing you can do, is go to Management > Control Panel > About Group, and change the group's e-mail address from e.g. MYGROUPNAME to MYGROUPNAMEOLD. This means that if people try to send an e-mail to the old Yahoogroups address, it won't make it to the list. However... AFAIK unfortunately the mail will be ignored by Yahoo, so you won't know that the member tried to send something, and they will not get any message telling them that their mail wasn't delivered).

Samuel
Re: I¡¯ve lost all groups, including several I am owner of

 

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:59 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
I tried logging in via Facebook. That worked. I can now log in okay
Can you go to your Account at the upper right?? If so, you should be able to change your email address there.? I'm guessing at that part because I don't use FB, so it may not have the same functions as regular login.

Duane
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