UPDATE: My Owner/Moderator Status changed to Member Status . . . .
|
I was actually unsubscribed from CostaRicaLiving and had to re-subscribe.
After I resubscribed I was only a member but oddly enough I received a Moderator Alert to my email that a new member had joined (that was me, of course) but when visiting the group I still have no Administrative Access in the left sidebar. So the Groups.io CRL recognizes me a owner/morerator on some level but I do not have access when I visit the page. [ sigh ] Hoping one of our wise GMF mavens will be able to unravel this mystery for me. Regards, Paul M. CRL Owner/Moderator == |
|
Paul,
I was actually unsubscribed from CostaRicaLiving and had to re-subscribe. If you were unsubscribed for spam, as Bruce suggests, then you would have been sent an email from Groups.io to resume your subscription. That may have gone to your Spam folder, so be sure to look there. The link in that message is good for three days, so there may still be time to recover your prior subscription (the one with owner status).. ? After I resubscribed I was only a member but oddly enough I received a Moderator Alert to my email that a new member had joined (that was me, of course) but when visiting the group I still have no Administrative Access in the left sidebar. Again, make sure we're talking about the same email address.? If you re-subscribed under the same email address which had been owner, rather than resuming, I don't know what happens. The new subscription may block the resume under the same address, or maybe the resume (if you find it) will bump you back to owner. In any case, going forward Bruce's suggestions about having a second owner in the group, even if it is just another email address for yourself, is something I endorse (and practice with my own groups). Shal-- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
|
Hello again Shal,
As you suggested, I tried logging out and back in using the AOL addy I signed up with. Doing so signs me out (and back in again) from/to all three IO Groups that I belong to, all at the same time. I also tried signng in using my Gmail addy and it is not recognized at all by Groups.io. I am positive that I only used my AOL addy with the three Groups.io sign-ups. But CostaRicaLiving was the only group of concern here since I can no longer access my Admin function from the L sidebar and am only consideded a member of CRL. And the odd thing is that yesterday I received an email alert (to my AOL addy) that a new member had signed up to CRL, so it seems that Groups.io is still recognizing me as the owner. And I did check for an email notice in my AOL spam folder (and in the trash) and there was no email from Groups.io with a resume notice. I know that I did not delete one because I always check my spam folder to see what was shunted into it. And I have no idea where else such an email alert might go to. The only other thing I can possibly think of is that I had changed my display name three days ago, but that didn't seem to cause any problem because my email addy was not altered and I was still at that time able to access the Admin functions. Still scratching my head about this whole thing. And once resolved I'll set up a 2nd owner from my Gamil addy, you can be sure. Paul M. CRL Owner/Moderator == |
|
Well Shal,
Time now for me to eat some crow! This mornng I received a New Subscriber email message which was sent this time to my Gmail addy. Checked around further and found that I had, after all, saved my original CRL User Name and password under a Gmail addy. I was able to sign in and via that route I am finally being recognized as Owner of the group. (I had been trying signing in wth Gmail but using a password which I very often will use but it was the wrong one for my membershsip with the Gmail addy so I kept being denied Owner access.) Also while I was logged in as the original Owner I made my other member ID ¨Cthe one which has the AOL addy¨C an Owner, too. So now what I should have done to begin with as a CYA for this sort of thing is now firmly in place, thanx to Y'all's advice. (And if it isn't being encouraged, then making someone else a back-up owner for one's new group should be an up-front suggestion for everyone who's setting up a new one.) This has all definitely been a hands-on learning experience for me which I would not have unraveled without the comments and suggestions which you and several others had provided me! Regards, Paul Mitchell CRL Owner (again, at last!) == |
Epicatt2
Shal Farley
Epicatt2