Re: Special Notices
No, not at all, for your use case scenario it's the preferred way of doing it actually. Cheers, Christos
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Christos Psarras
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#41441
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Re: Special Notices
I guess that I'm an owner/Moderator who misunderstood too. When we transferred over from Yahoo eons ago the mail selection options were, if I recall correctly, e-mail, digest, or Special Notices only.
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Sharon Allen
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#41440
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Re: Special Notices
Dave, /On 2022-06-26 15:45, Dave Sergeant via groups.io wrote:// / That will happen if the special notice is sent online using NewTopic, and the From: address is selected as the Owner account instead
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Christos Psarras
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#41439
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Re: Special Notices
No Bruce, our group is not set to plain text. I see what you are suggesting but I think most people using email will just click on 'reply' which totally ignores anything in the footers. Our special
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Dave Sergeant
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#41438
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Re: Special Notices
Dave -- Is your group set to Plain Text Only? The plain-text footer contains a "group owner" email address that could be linkified by a receiver's mail client. Are you sure they aren't clicking on
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Bruce
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#41437
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Re: Special Notices
Thanks to Frances and Bruce for the clear discussion on this subject. My group uses Special Notice to inform members about landmark items effecting members of our ¡®fire family.¡¯ Many of us span 40
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Dan Tucker
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#41436
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Re: Special Notices
Thanks for the detailed comments Bruce. But that OP will be by definition an owner/moderator as those are the only ones who can post special notices. Our messages are coming back on email with a reply
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Dave Sergeant
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#41435
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Re: Special Notices
Dave -- I agree that there is a lot of confusion. Trying to answer your questions, as best I can: -- Special notices are sent immediately, regardless of subscription setting, so they reach people
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Bruce
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#41434
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Re: Special Notices
There is something in the help Glossary: /helpcenter/glossary/1/terms/special-notice If members reply to special notices, they are sent out as just regular messages and go to all
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Frances
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#41433
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Special Notices
There has been a lot of discussion over time both here and on the beta group about Special Notices but we have encountered a lot of confusion over them. One of our moderators has used special notices
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Dave Sergeant
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#41432
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Re: Need hashtags for replies
For suggestions, you have to post on the beta group ( https://beta.groups.io/g/main/guidelines ).? No one from management monitors this group. There's nothing to keep you from requiring? the
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Duane
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#41431
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Re: Question about "MUTE"?
My group has been in existence for 30 years. It is a very permissive group (ostensibly of neighbors though actually living in the geographical neighborhood is not a requirement) and in its time only
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Mimi Kessler
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#41430
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Re: Question about "MUTE"?
Chelle . . . <WillowRavenSpirit@...> wrote: This requested feature wasn't meant by the OP to be a moderator's tool. It's for an individual to use at his whim. If he doesn't like what someone
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Donald Hellen
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#41429
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Re: Need hashtags for replies
OK, what the sum seems to be is that the hashtag is in the topic heading, and the heading is what binds the topic with all its replies.? If someone in the io team does development support, I am
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Linda Kilcrease
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#41428
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Re: Question about "MUTE"?
Since mute isn't an option (and I can kind of see some issues with putting someone on "mute" when dealing with digests), why not just put the rogue person on moderation and just keep an eye on what
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~*~WillowRaven~*~
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#41427
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Re: Question about "MUTE"?
Andy . . . wrote: I gave some thought about this. You are correct in some cases where the person I may want to mute is doing something that adversely affects the good atmosphere of a group. That could
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Donald Hellen
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#41426
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Re: Question about "MUTE"?
Andy, I respectfully disagree with your assessment and the proposal for Mods to ¡®police this.¡¯ Mods have enough to do without having to moderate every subtlety of social interaction for every
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Dan Tucker
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#41425
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Re: Help please- Archive Privacy
Just to be abundantly clear, if you change your group from public to private, you cannot change it back again later, Regards Andy
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Andy Wedge
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#41424
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Re: Question about "MUTE"?
filtering emails will work for those receiving individual messages but it won't remove a persons post from within a digest, whereas a mute person option would mean they weren't in the digest anyway. I
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Andy Wedge
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#41423
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Re: Question about "MUTE"?
Just an FYI.? The suggestion has been submitted to beta, so additional support there might be worthwhile, https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/91985347. Duane -- Lots of detailed information can be
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Duane
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#41422
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