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Re: coping with high traffic
You could suggest that people use advanced preferences so that they just get the first message in any thread. The individual member can then decide to follow that thread if they wish.?
Works for for people who don¡¯t want a huge amount of email. I use it for this group! Frances |
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Re: Desirable member subscription preferences
Ken,
Be aware that GMF is a user-to-user group: no Groups.io employees here. The official "suggestion box" for Groups.io is the beta group: That said, here's my feedback: ? Ability to set ¡®newest first¡¯ as a default for topic and messageI actually disagree with both of those. I prefer that the site simply remember my most recent sort choices until I change them. But those defaults would not be too annoying (to me) if they applied only at each new login. As long as my sort choice doesn't reset to the default simply because I navigated away from the messages list and back again. ? Ability to sort attached files and albums by /_member name_/I'm all for lists (of all kinds) being sortable and filterable by any and all metadata. That is, "yes" in both the list of albums and in the list of photos within an album. ? Ability of the digest emails, when clicking the hotline of theThe /Reply to Group/ and /Reply to Sender/ links beneath messages in a Formatted digest are mailto: links. If you're not seeing them that's, I think, a bug when the group's Reply To setting is not "Group". /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Footers Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Group name already taken before transfer from Yahoo, Any recourse?
Kim,
I have a group on Yahoo with over 4800 members I¡¯d like to transfer toTechnically that's not a problem - in the transfer there's no requirement that the group name in Groups.io match that of the Y!Group. So you could take this as your opportunity to improve the group's name, were that something you would have considered were it not for the disruption. I can¡¯t get a response from the owner. Is there any way I can get thatI doubt it, not without that owner's cooperation. If group membership is open (or even if restricted) I'd probably join that group and then send to the +owner address again. That's because, unlike Yahoo, mods/owners in Groups.io have an option for what +owner messages to receive, and that owner may have chosen not to receive +owner messages from non-members. Another thing you could try, as a member, is posting to the group itself. Particularly if the group is moderated, or new-member moderated, you may be able to get the owner's attention in their Pending Messages list. The venue of last resort would be [email protected] but, absent some type of trademark situation or a similar violation of the TOS by that group's owner, I think the answer is likely to be "first come, first served". Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: User deleting own post
jonathon,
Does Groups.IO honour x-no-archive headers?Interesting question. It appears that the answer is "no", judging from a quick trial in my test group. I know that Y!Groups did support it. In fact, even supported it as the first line of the message body. At least for text/plain, I never tried it in a text/HTML or MIME multipart. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Message Time Zones
#timezone
Jack,
You'll maybe let me know when it is resolved?No promises, but it will likely appear as an entry in a #changelog message. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Storage space
Bob,
You could change the resolution max for all photos and reclaim spaceThat's definitely something to consider going forward. It would be really nice if there were a feature to apply those limits to existing photos "in situ" - without having to download and re-upload them and without disturbing their meta data (Name, Owner, Upload date, Description). That's something else that's been requested in beta: We recently got a partial solution in the ability for a moderator to set the Owner field. But that still leaves the excessively tedious task of downloading, deleting, rescaling, uploading, and then correcting the Owner field of the resized photo. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Message Time Zones
#timezone
Thanks 'lads'
You'll maybe let me know when it is resolved? Obliged. Jack(;>J |
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Re: Storage space
Richard,
Members have suggested upgrading and offered funding. But it appearsFor the moment that's not true. Currently when a group downgrades the existing content is not deleted; you simply lose the ability to add more if you're now over the limit. However, I don't know if that can be relied on as a site policy in the long run. If the time comes that you're faced with having your group revert to Basic you should take advantage of the content download feature before the downgrade takes effect, just in case. How about a 2-5 Gb for a one time payment program being available?I'm all for that, even as a yearly payment. As Duane mentioned it was discussed in beta a while ago, but nothing has been said about it by Groups.io (Mark). Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Storage space
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýMy group that was on Y since 2000, had used a whole lot of pictures as attachments to explain certain things. Members also had photo albums for storing their personal pictures in that related to what our group was about, with a few members accumulating up to 200 pictures in their albums. We also had files, databases, and archived posts too, and on Y our storage was almost unlimited. I knew when I decided to move the group to Groups.io I was going to need more than 1GB, but 10 was going to be overkill. I also knew I was going to lose all the attachments that were tied to archived posts, but I decided I could sacrifice the attachments for a move to a stable site. Groups.io offered everything I wanted so our group would continue into the future, and with 10GB of space we would never run out of room. The tradeoff besides the loss of the old attachments, is it was going to cost me $10.00 per month. Y spoiled me by giving all that to me for free, but I had to contend with a constant barrage of advertisements, and customer service that was pretty much non-existent¡Just the opposite in Groups.io. Some members offered to pay a little to offset the $10.00 per month, but to me it seemed kind of ridiculous to take $1.00 donations from a few members out of almost 100, and to complicated to setup just for $10.00 per month. I decided since this group was my baby, if I wanted it to continue on it was going to be up to me to pay for it. So where was I going to get the money to pay for my group every month? By giving up going out to coffee about five times a month, I could easily pay for the group, so that¡¯s what I¡¯ve been doing, and it hasn¡¯t changed anything in my life¡except I¡¯ve saved a little gas money in the process. ? Don ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of ray_r.rm via Groups.Io ? I recently discovered that my basic Group was using the entire 2Gb of storage |
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New to Groups IO
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHello, I am new to Groups IO, and I think I¡¯m answering my own question by doing this: How do I have messages delivered via e-mail instead of logging on every time to groups.io ? Thank you so much. ? Donnell Bell ? Donnell Ann Bell Suspense too Close to Home
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Re: Storage space
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 02:18 pm, ray_r.rm wrote:
How about a 2-5 Gb for a one time payment program being available? Much of this was discussed on the beta group awhile back (which would be the proper place since Groups.io Management isn't on this group), but Mark hasn't mentioned anything about possibly doing it.? The biggest problem I had was folks not realizing that the default resolution of their camera, regardless of type, was for printing 8x10 pictures.? Much lower resolution is fine for viewing on any type of device.? I've now set my groups to resize to 312x312 and haven't had any complaints.? (488x488 should work for nearly any group except possibly fine art discussions. ;>) Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Re: User deleting own post
I don't believe it has been established if or how the GDPR will apply to online communities or specifically mailing list archives. Such contributions are qualitatively different than personal information collected privately.Change the Group description to state that a requirement of group participation is that all messages should not be deleted and/or edited, and send a Special Notice of the policy clarification / update, and put it in the Message Footer too. You could be sure to send a reply to the group of every message from the 'Post Deleting Member' and quote their message. Then if they delete their post, the quote of it would still be archived¡ It¡¯s not ideal and a bit of a hassle. Warn the Deleter first, that you will do that. And that you could put them on Moderation to be sure you can do that before they delete. Go to Admin: Settings: Message Policies and check: Disable Editing Posts Don't allow members to edit their own posts. (And click on: Update Group) I¡¯m not sure if this will also prevent deletions or not. |
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Re: User deleting own post
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jonathon,If the individual lives in Europe, you don't have that option. If they ?I support the notion? that a member ought to have the ability to remove their own contributions, but until this interpretation of the GDPR is proven in the context of group contributions I believe statements like that to be rank fear-mongering. I don't believe it has been established if or how the GDPR will apply to online communities or specifically mailing list archives. Such contributions are qualitatively different than personal information collected privately. -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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