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Re: Strange thing happened with a Group reply - any ideas how this could have happened?
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Firstly, no I have not noticed the problem you describe However, when did you post the question with three to five replies you did not receive? Searching this groups messages I do not see a recent message from you Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 25/10/2020 15:40, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
Related to this, have some in this group experienced not having received emails of a post in this group? I had emailed a question to this group but do not recall ever having received subsequent posts of that topic, and there probably were 3-5 of them. Maybe I just did not realize the messages for what they were and deleted them. That is always a possibility. Or it may be a problem with my IP. Each morning I have to check their spam folder to release messages, and in the past I have never received messages I should have or they have come through a week or two later. If no one else has experienced this then it must be my mistake or maybe a problem with my IP. |
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Re: FAQ re: Prospective Members/Restricted Group
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 01:04 PM, Bill Tracy wrote:
Is there a way allow future prospective members to receive the email/message trail from the group??Bill -- Yes, but it's a little complicated. Open the Message Policies tab in your group settings. There's a checkbox in there that says "Allow Members to Download Archive." Check that box and click Update Group. Having done so, the Messages page in your group will now have an "Export Group Data" button at the top. Members can click on that to receive all the messages as a ZIP archive. These messages are in mbox format (Unix mailbox) and may be opened with any mail reader that can handle that format. Apple Mail, Windows 10 Mail and Thunderbird (with the importexporttools add-on) have all been reported to work. See?/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/working-with-group-messages/downloading-a-group-s-message-archive?for more details. Regards, Bruce Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual |
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Re: FAQ re: Prospective Members/Restricted Group
Bill,
>>>?Is there a way allow future prospective members to receive the email/message trail from the group? Not as far as I know, but you can do it in a roundabout way using email forwarding; this should work but I did not test it. 1. Create a generic/utility account on gmail or wherever and name it accordingly, maybe ProspectiveMembers@... r somethign like that so it can be obvious to the receivers. 2. Subscribe it to the group, setting it to Single-All delivery. 3. Set it to forward any incoming email (from only the group), to the prospective members as BCC, with you as the TO field. 4. They will then receive the group emails (which are addressed to?ProspectiveMembers@...), so if one of them replies, since their address is now on the FROM field,?it should go to group but end up in the pending queue*** since they are not members yet, so you'll be able to see their reply and do whatever you want with it. (*** you'd have to set "Allow Nonmembers to Post" to ON for this to work, if you want them to be able to reply, otherwise if they do with that setting OFF, their reply will get rejected) 5. When one of those members does join after all, or is not interested anymore, just remove their address from the forwarding list. 6. If you do this setup, also create an inbox rule to automatically delete old group messages after a certain timeframe to keep things tidy. If you do try/tweak this and it works, please let us know how it goes. Cheers, Christos |
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Re: Can you repost a poll?
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 12:54 PM, John Russell wrote:
I checked the Actviity Log and found no entries. Do you see entries in the Activty Log?Yes. It shows as "edited message #xxxxx" Just to clarify. I did not change the question as that would invalidated the votes already received.I don't see why that would be a problem, if you were reasonably careful. Try adding an extra space somewhere. I only edited the information which appears before the question, just to add the deadline for voting, which I forgot when I created the Poll. It seemed the ideal way to do this was to edit the orignal message and click on Update.There are only three fields -- the Subject line, the Poll question, and the Answers. Changing the subject line will not cause a new message to go out. More generally, changing the subject does not do what you think it does. A subject line is a function of a topic, not a message. If you really want to do that you have to click on the Topic Properties button.? I found a workaround, so now I will just send it to support to see if Mark knows why this did not work.If you want to issue a bug report, ask why the subject line is an editable field on the "Edit Poll" screen when changing it doesn't really do anything. Regards, Bruce Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual |
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Re: Can you repost a poll?
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Re: Strange thing happened with a Group reply - any ideas how this could have happened?
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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýJane,no clue what may have happened, but just curious, On 2020-10-25 10:56,
Jane Valencia via groups.io wrote:
Hi, we had a strange occurrence on our list. In replying to a thread about a wedding email scam (where scammers are emailing performers to play for a fake wedding), one of our members had this experience: Why are you allowing a thread like that to post to / stay in the group archives?? If you know it's spam, delete the message/thread asap so it doesn't propagate and cause potential downstream problems. Cheers, Christos |
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Re: Possible Downgrade to basic from Premium
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 11:55 AM, John Pearce wrote:
I did see that page under billing in settings.? So we would still have everything marked "legacy", it's just that we would have less storage space for photos, files, polls, calendar, etc?Did you see the new File uploaded by Bruce? /g/GroupManagersForum/files/Groups.io%20features%20%28includes%20legacy%20stuff%29.pdf Frances ? -- GMF wiki for help.?Search box at the top of each page. Check out the?new groups.io Help Center??Use your browser to search or download?the PDF. |
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