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Are comments in the Subscribe email not passed to owner?

 

It seems that when someone includes comments in their Subscribe email these comments are not passed to the owner. Is this the case? Or have I missed something. We would like to require new subscribers to include comments/info as part of the approval process. Ideally these would be passed to the owner in the "Subscription Approval Needed" email to the owner.

Drew
J_Catlady
 

No, no content from the subscribe email goes to anyone.?

If you want content from a pending member in order to approve their membership, or just to have on file, you need to create a Pending Member notice (see Settings --> Member Notices), which goes out automatically when someone requests membership in your group. You can use it to ask questions. If the pending member responds to the email, the response becomes a record in their "+owner messages" page.?

Two caveats: (1) you can only do this if your group is "restricted" (membership requires approval), and (2) in my group, the pending member notice goes into a black hole about 1 time in 5 or 10 (it's not even in their spam folder) and I have to contact the member via a personal email anyway.

J

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 4:09 AM, Drew AF2Z <pubx1@...> wrote:
It seems that when someone includes comments in their Subscribe email these comments are not passed to the owner. Is this the case? Or have I missed something. We would like to require new subscribers to include comments/info as part of the approval process. Ideally these would be passed to the owner in the "Subscription Approval Needed" email to the owner.

Drew
 

Thanks. I suppose that will work but if there are multiple pending subscribers it will be very inconvenient to try and match up the submitted info with the individual pending subscribers. At least, I don't see anywhere (either in email to owner or on the admin page) where the required info from the pending subscriber is displayed alongside a button or link for the owner to "Approve" them.

My suggestion is to quote any comments made in the pending subscriber's Subscribe email and pass these to the owner in the "Subscription Approval Needed" email. It is then a simple matter for the owner to see the subscriber info/comment and hit "reply" to approve. (This may be one of the few things that Yahoo Groups got right...)

Drew
 

There's a major revision of the notifications and interaction planned, but no projected implementation date. I think Mark will ask for additional input on the beta group when he's ready to tackle this.

Duane
 

Ok, thanks. I'll keep watch there.

Drew

On 09/02/17 11:39, Duane wrote:
There's a major revision of the notifications and interaction planned, but no projected implementation date. I think Mark will ask for additional input on the beta group when he's ready to tackle this.
Duane

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