Re: Allow groups.io messages to be more personal
Based on most interpretations of worldwide law, the "officialese" has to come first so folks can easily leave if they want.? Of course, spammers don't pay any attention to minor things like laws.
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Duane
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#44066
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Re: Allow groups.io messages to be more personal
You're confusing two notices, Welcome and Direct Add.? Welcome is sent when someone joins your group on their own or you add them, Direct Add is only used when you add them.? There is a default
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Duane
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#44065
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Re: Allow groups.io messages to be more personal
I might add that this entire problem could be finessed by concisely?adding the required information in a footer, rather?than embedding the group owner's original message in a morass of officialese.
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Peter S. Shenkin
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#44064
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Re: Allow groups.io messages to be more personal
I did include the information you refer to in my own Direct Add massage. I noted in my posting that the GMF welcome message does not include the boilerplate welcome, and was told in a response to my
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Peter S. Shenkin
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#44063
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Re: Allow groups.io messages to be more personal
Peter, I have another suggestion for you. I think it might be a good idea to explain to your group what a list serve is and how it works. Many people ?who are unfamiliar with the ¡°every email goes
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KATHLEEN DESMAISONS
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#44062
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Re: Allow groups.io messages to be more personal
For legal reasons, the Direct Add message must notify each subscriber that they're now in your group and give them a chance to opt out. Groups.io cannot assume you'll include such information in your
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Bruce
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#44061
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Re: Allow groups.io messages to be more personal
Just thought of that, it may had been the browser's autocomplete feature messing this up somehow, I had this happen a few times in other sites where I thought I had cleared the field using backspace
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Christos Psarras
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#44060
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Re: Allow groups.io messages to be more personal
Hi, I followed the instructions to create my own Direct Add message, but when I do a Direct Add, the message I created appears within the default message. My own message is the italicized part of the
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Peter S. Shenkin
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#44059
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Re: Allow groups.io messages to be more personal
Hi, I had stated that when I empty out the Subject Tag field and press Update Group, the default tag reappears. Indeed, as several suggested, I must have been doing something wrong, because when I
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Peter S. Shenkin
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#44058
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Re: Show quoted text option
I laughed, because I can't get people on my lists TO quote anything, so many replies lack context. Be careful what you wish for!
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Gabe Goldberg
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#44057
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Re: Subscription is all messed up.
#access
I am a bit puzzled - so you use different email addresses for different groups? Well, first of all, since you can get online to this group, go to the top right corner where you will see a username.
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Frances
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#44056
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Subscription is all messed up.
#access
For some reason my emails for the computer forum are not being received at jocaan@....? They are instead being misdirected and going to an old email address that I do not use for computer
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jocaan_1 <jocaan@...>
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#44055
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Re: Show quoted text option
I don't mind TOFU if used as by me in this response. I also like TOFU in my salads ??? My thanks to Ro-esp and Duane for your help
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SafeTex
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Re: Undelivered mail to Yahoo, AOL and Verizon email address
#email
You need the information from a bounced message to continue troubleshooting.? You won't have access to the header, but there will be more info than "554 error: 'Message not accepted for policy
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Duane
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#44052
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Re: Undelivered mail to Yahoo, AOL and Verizon email address
#email
Here is the raw data?of a message sent to a gmail account but was undelivered to a yahoo account.??https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KyNJSMZ5roAj-7VBWDECKOO9oGczeeOx/view?usp=sharing.? I'm assuming
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Mark Hermsmeier
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#44051
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Re: Undelivered mail to Yahoo, AOL and Verizon email address
#email
For all intents and purposes, they're the same company, so will likely handle messages the same.? Without a complete header of a bounced message, replies will be mostly guessing.? It should give
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Duane
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#44050
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Undelivered mail to Yahoo, AOL and Verizon email address
#email
In our group,?there is a problem of undelivered mail to Yahoo, AOL and Verizon email addresses.? This only occurs with one account with a mail.com address.? Her email posts are properly delivered
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Mark Hermsmeier
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Re: Moderating attachments from individual user
You can raise it again in Beta - https://beta.groups.io/g/main No one in management here in this peer-to-peer help group. In Beta, I see a thread on more granular permissions. Perhaps the right topic
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Frances
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#44048
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Re: Moderating attachments from individual user
Thanks for confirming that this capability does not currently exist. I tried to be clear that the question was regarding moderation of attachments for an individual, not for everyone. I'm aware that
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Jay Elvove
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#44047
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Re: Show quoted text option
It isn't, because quote often is necessary to know what the message is about. However, you can have a group-rule that top-posting/TOFU is not allowed. This used to be established netiquette Not quite.
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ro-esp
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#44046
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