Ana,

... how do you approve people in windows ten with thunder bird?

Watch for a notice telling you that there is a pending member waiting to be approved. The notice will be like this:

From: "groupemail Notification" <[email protected]>
Subject: Subscription Approval Needed - user applied to groupemail

Except it will have your group's email address instead of "groupemail" and the applicant's email address instead of "user".

When you receive that message simply reply to it to approve the applicant. Or, use the link in the notice to view and optionally approve the Pending member via the web.

Note: the above works regardless of what operating system or email interface you may be using.


If you don't see a "Subscription Approval Needed" notice when you were expecting one, check the following:

1) Your email Spam folder

2) Ask the person to verify that they confirmed their request to join your group. If they used the email +subscribe command Groups.io will send them a confirmation request email. They must reply to that before you will be notified of their pending membership.

3) Go to your group on the web and open your Subscription page. Scroll down near the bottom of the page and look at the Notifications section. Make sure the box in front of "Email when there are members needing approval." is checked. Likewise for any other notifications you wish to receive. Then click the blue Save button at the bottom.

4) Go to your group on the web and open the Settings page (it will be in the Admin drop-down group of pages). Scroll down to the Spam Control section. Applicants only need approval if the box in front of "Restricted Membership" is checked.

Shal


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Hello there, how do you approve people in windows ten with thunder bird?

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We need to create tally sheets from the calendar but not sure the easiest way to export the calendar events- would like it to go to Excel- any help?

Spyder,

I've searched and searched for what "ADV" means in the subject line in
some posts in my group.

It doesn't have any functional meaning as far as Groups.io is concerned.

Maybe the member is trying to signal that their message contains an advertisement?

Or maybe some member's email service is adding that because their algorithms think the group message is an advertisement (similar to the SPAM tag I've seen some email interfaces use), and that gets carried back to the group in the member's reply.

Shal


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Dick,

How do I give members permission to upload files ?

On your group's Settings page, near the bottom, in the Features section, find the Files, Permissions control. Set that to "Subscribers can view and Upload".

Don't forget the blue Update Group button at the very bottom of the page.

Shal


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With a yahoo group I previously managed, we had good success by fully moderating (as discussed here) and by publishing some "rules" that including a warning/expulsion system. ?Only for serious stuff like profanity, ad hominem attacks or whatever, such posts would never get through since we moderated but, on a first occurrence, a mod would message the offender privately with a link to the rules and indicate a warning (strike 1). Upon a second or third repetition of the same bad offense, we'd expel/remove the member. The benefit with this is transparency and predictability.

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Hello... I've searched and searched for what "ADV" means in the subject line in some posts in my group. Can you tell me? Thanks, Spyder co-owner Mouseville

I own a Group (FTDX-101MP). How do I give members permission to upload files ?

Thanks, Dick, W1KSZ

You can also edit and flag the subject line of the topic with a red hastag which says "#TOPIC-CLOSED!"

Then choose hashtags from the L sidebar and for that hashtag choose edit and set the hashtag to 'Locked'. That will block any further posts to that thread unless someone alters the subject line in their reply.

OK — HTH

Paul M.
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Yes, lock the topic.? ?You've lucked out in that someone decided to reply to a message you already deleted, thus reviving the topic, which you can now lock.

It also does not hurt, as part of a "This topic is now locked/closed" message, to note that any attempt to start it under another guise will be dealt with severely.? If you do have the unfortunate situation where there's an obscenity in the topic title you can actually edit that in your outgoing message then lock the original offending topic and the new one you've created.

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Brook,

I deleted the topic but reply to the post are still coming in. Is
there anyway to stop this?

1) If you haven't already, go to your group's Settings page and click the Moderated checkbox.

Until the topic peters out you'll have to manually approve good messages, and reject or delete those on this bad topic, but it will put a stop to the on-going back-and-forth, which should eventually cause people to quit replying.

2) Post your own reply to this topic, telling members that the topic is "closed" (or words to that effect) and not to be discussed further. If your email interface put a quote of the message you replied to in your reply, delete that. Leave only your own text.

This could be problematic if the Subject line itself contains a obscenity or other text that you really can't bear to repeat. In that case make up your own Subject text, but what follows won't apply.

Optionally:

3) Go to the group's web pages and mark the topic as "Moderated" or "Locked" (your choice). Those options will be found in the More menu under your message - which should now be the only message in this topic. Assuming you've deleted or rejected the rest.

4) You may now remove the check from the Moderated box in your group's settings (if the group doesn't normally moderate messages). Messages in other topics will post normally, but those in reply to the forbidden topic will now be sent to your Pending folder, or rejected ("bounced") outright.

Shal


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so a parent in my group started a political thread which is specifically stated not to do. I deleted the topic but reply to the post are still coming in. Is there anyway to stop this?

I just keep deleting the posts with the same topic title

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 05:23 PM, Barry wrote:

moving between the roughly 14 pages (20 members shown per page)

On your own Account, under Preferences, you can change that to 50 or 100 items per page.? Infinite scroll is also an option, but doesn't work on some pages, such as databases.? I haven't tried it on the Members page.

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Thanks so much for this, Paul. ?Good ideas/workarounds all. ?As I'm a new group, this challenge with respect to topic queuing isn't yet an issue but likely will be in relatively short order. ?For us, it came up due to member sorting. ?Namely, moving between the roughly 14 pages (20 members shown per page) is a fairly manual process. The date-solution analog here could be the "Applied" column at far right in "Members" view which allows you to jump to first member joined or most-recent member joined by toggling the Date header. But that isn't so helpful when 95% of your members were all migrated on the same date. ?I've submitted this to the beta group. Not sure if it'll be seen or considered since Mark is on vacation and, as my first beta submission, I'm not sure how many realistically get acted upon.

Barry

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Whenever we have had this problem, it's because the member's email account is sending messages to spam. Groups.io has to then bounce the member in order to protect the whole system. (We've had this mainly with yahoo accounts.) Our first suggestion is always to ask the member to check their spam. They need to mark it as "not spam" and return it to their inbox before deleting anything they don't want, or their email provider will think they still want it designated as spam.

Once it's "not spam," they should have no problem receiving the bounce probe which will include a link to "unbounce" their account.

~Sandy

I think the best way to handle member upset over auto-unsubscibe is
for an Owner or Moderator to correspond with the person and explain what happened.
If Owners leave it up to the system the member will feel like they are being handled totally by bots.

Owners & Moderators do have a responsibility toward their subscribers and this is one step in cementing that relationship.

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 12:00 AM, Barry wrote:

. . . thing which prompted this has to do with navigating a group membership list.
. . . when looking at "Members" for a group, at lower right are the page numbers
and obvious how one can click on whatever page or click through them to see
the entirety of a list. ?[snip]
?I'd love to suggest the inclusion of double arrows at left and right of those
single arrows to speed navigation.

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Hi Barry,

This is not a precise answer to your question here, but I hope it offers you some partial workarounds in lieu of the double arrows you suggested, so . . .

While at your groups.io group site:

Click on the 'Messages' button in the L sidebar and then choose 'topics' from the options at the top of the message page.

Once the messages are displayed as a list of topics you can then click on the blue 'Date' link near the top right to reverse the order of display of the messages. This lets you toggle the oldest posts, so that they display at the top of the list (just below any pinned messages) or back again to newest first.

Then you can use the forward page arrow buttons to navigate back towards the newer messages.

I believe one other way to go about locating an older post is to know its message number or guess its approximate number and then navigate with the singel arrows near the top of the list.

And one further way is on the Homepage of a group: Near the bottom is a grid showing the number of messages in each month of every year that the group has been in existence. That month's number is a link which will take you to the first message in that month.

Fiddle around a bit with these several suggestions and you should be able to navigate to the message(s) you want fairly easily.

OK — HTH

Paul M.
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