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best way to limit email replies

J Bills
 

Hi all - new to groups.io and did a quick search but haven't turned up an answer to this.? I have a group that has a "delicate" membership where it's all professionals and - in short - people I don't want to bother very often.? I want to keep the asks and traffic low to this group because I can't risk any unsubscribes.

Is there a combination of settings that would allow me to basically "push" an initial email (new topic) out to the list via email, but then have any replies or continued chatter be "subscription only" where you wouldn't get any of the replies unless you specifically sign up or subscribe to the thread?? So the rest of the responses are pulled and not pushed?

I suppose if subscribing wasn't an option, maybe some sort of "only view on the web forum" sort of situation would be fine, but it'd be great if email could be maintained somehow instead of just forum browsing.

Any tips for me here?? Is there a clever way to set this up?

Thanks so much
-Jay
 
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On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 02:41 PM, J Bills wrote:
Is there a combination of settings that would allow me to basically "push" an initial email (new topic) out to the list via email, but then have any replies or continued chatter be "subscription only" where you wouldn't get any of the replies unless you specifically sign up or subscribe to the thread?? So the rest of the responses are pulled and not pushed?
Yes, you can make this behavior a group default...but you can't force your subscribers to keep it.

Go to Admin>Settings and click the Default Sub Settings button at the top.?Examine the Message Selection section on the resulting page. Based on your proposal above, I believe you would want to check the "Following only" and "First Message Also" boxes. Subscribers with this setting would then receive the first message of each topic, but would not receive any subsequent ones unless they chose to follow it (by clicking a link in the message footer).

These settings will be automatically applied to all new subscribers, and will persist until such time that they decide to change it to something else.

I suppose if subscribing wasn't an option, maybe some sort of "only view on the web forum" sort of situation would be fine, but it'd be great if email could be maintained somehow instead of just forum browsing.
If you don't want emails sent, in this same section check the "No Email" or "Special Notices Only" boxes (instead of Following Only, etc). Again, the individual subscriber will be able to change to something else later, if he wants to.

If you want all communication to be one-way with no Subscriber replies at all, you can set up your group as an Announcement group (Admin>Settings>Spam Control).

Hope this helps,
Bruce?
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J Bills
 

Bingo - that "following only" setting should do the trick. ? Thanks for the helping hand.


On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 11:58 AM Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 02:41 PM, J Bills wrote:
Is there a combination of settings that would allow me to basically "push" an initial email (new topic) out to the list via email, but then have any replies or continued chatter be "subscription only" where you wouldn't get any of the replies unless you specifically sign up or subscribe to the thread?? So the rest of the responses are pulled and not pushed?
Yes, you can make this behavior a group default...but you can't force your subscribers to keep it.

Go to Admin>Settings and click the Default Sub Settings button at the top.?Examine the Message Selection section on the resulting page. Based on your proposal above, I believe you would want to check the "Following only" and "First Message Also" boxes. Subscribers with this setting would then receive the first message of each topic, but would not receive any subsequent ones unless they chose to follow it (by clicking a link in the message footer).

These settings will be automatically applied to all new subscribers, and will persist until such time that they decide to change it to something else.

I suppose if subscribing wasn't an option, maybe some sort of "only view on the web forum" sort of situation would be fine, but it'd be great if email could be maintained somehow instead of just forum browsing.
If you don't want emails sent, in this same section check the "No Email" or "Special Notices Only" boxes (instead of Following Only, etc). Again, the individual subscriber will be able to change to something else this later, if he wants to.

If you want all communication to be one-way with no Subscriber replies at all, you can set up your group as an Announcement group (Admin>Settings>Spam Control).

Hope this helps,
Bruce?
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The system Help is your friend.??/static/help

Brian Vogel
 

I've posted this before, and although it is targeted at individuals who use screen readers, it should be easily "translatable" back to point and click by the sighted.

It covers how to do what's been discussed here for anyone who wants to do it on any list they may be subscribed to:

(docx)


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