Re: Requiring email addresses
I have that disabled for my groups. You are only allowed to post to the group on the website, you may not reply to all, or do a private reply. Now in the email interface you can as you can see the
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Sarah k Alawami
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#2652
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Re: Changing the wording of messages and pages
If you mean the footer, you can actually type in custom text in the settings under groups.io <http://groups.io/> under your group, then admin, then settings. I just modified my android list to list
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Sarah k Alawami
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#2651
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Problems with Women Writers through the Ages @ Yahoo
I am wondering if anyone can help me and the people on my Women Writers through the Ages listserv at Yahoo. We are now in the third day, more than 48 hours, of no messages coming into or being sent
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Ellen Moody
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#2650
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Changing the wording of messages and pages
Hello I am looking to move several announcement groups from Yahoo to here. These are mostly e-mail announcement lists, with a couple as discussion groups. The members of the groups are not
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newcastle.ramblers@...
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#2649
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Re: Requiring email addresses
Richard, There is, sort-of, for a loose meaning of the word private. If you click on Reply under a member's post there is a "Private" button over to the right. Clicking that will change a default
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Shal Farley
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#2648
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Re: Member list vs. member directory
Ok thanks, I¡¯ve done that. Sent: 21 November 2017 15:51 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GMF] Member list vs. member directory
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Richard L King
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#2647
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NextDoor, YahooGroups, Google
When NextDoor started someone called me repeatedly to get me to join. I didn¡¯t for several reasons. They were pushing security and guaranteeing that no one would be on the list unless they were
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Sharon Villines
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#2646
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Re: Member list vs. member directory
I think this is so comprehensive and straightforward that you should repeat this wishlist to the beta group, which is the place for new feature suggestions. Some of these have been discussed there ad
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#2645
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Re: Member list vs. member directory
Shal Sorry, I didn't intend to add any more to this topic but I just want to clarify something that was a misunderstanding on my part. I am (and always was) perfectly happy with the distinction
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Richard L King
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#2644
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Re: Requiring email addresses
My list that had 33,000 members when it was on Yahoo was a technical support group for an online broker's application programming interface: this is something that enables people to develop financial
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Richard L King
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#2643
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Re: Requiring email addresses
Having been through similar discussions (debates?;) ad infinitum in the beta group over the past 1+ years, it's become more and more clear to me how idiosyncratic these preferences are. On one end,
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J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...>
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#2642
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Re: Requiring email addresses
Sharon, I think it is entirely a question of the nature of the group. For some types of help groups I think it would be entirely appropriate to allow (or even require) anonymity. For my classmate
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Shal Farley
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#2641
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Re: Member list vs. member directory
Richard, I don't think it is, primarily. I think the two features come from different needs. The Members list comes about from the list admin's need to have a comprehensive list of the membership,
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Shal Farley
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#2640
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Requiring email addresses
I can¡¯t imagine a list with anonymous members posting. I have a 3,000 member neighborhood list and it starts a big row if people don¡¯t sign their emails and indicate the street on which they live.
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Sharon Villines
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#2639
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Re: Member list vs. member directory
Shal I understand everything you say, and where you're coming from, but as things stand I really don't think the distinction between the member list and the directory can be considered a privacy
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Richard L King
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#2638
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Re: Member list vs. member directory
J, You can turn it off in your group if you don't mind allowing members to see the Members list. I've done that in my classmate groups. I think that's relatively safe on groups with restricted (and
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Shal Farley
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#2637
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Re: Member list vs. member directory
Richard, Or members on bouncing status. Those too do not transfer over. Shal
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Shal Farley
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#2636
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Re: Member list vs. member directory
Richard, That's basically in the nature of email lists (as opposed to online fora). There are ways around it, but most email lists operate with the sender's From: address forwarded in the clear. The
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Shal Farley
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#2635
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Re: Member list vs. member directory
I don't think what you say is entirely true. Before I moved my groups from Yahoo, there were many instances of members who had no declared email address at all, but were perfectly able to post. This
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Richard L King
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#2634
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Re: Member list vs. member directory
Shal (and others who responded, for which thanks) I think what concerns me here is that on the one hand, there is this distinction between the member directory and member list (which of course was the
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Richard L King
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#2633
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