>> I want it to be in their faces, but not more than once a week to annoy the people too much that do actually use the guidelines.?

Food for thought: Is once a week even going to change the behavior of those you say don't bother saving what you request and save? And is a constant reminder to those people that DO follow the guidelines NOT going to annoy them, regardless of the frequency?

You apparently have strict guidelines for the behavior in your group. That's fine. Lay out what the guidelines are when a member joins. They will either a.) understand and abide by them, or b.) "seem to think that it does not apply to them" and ignore them. In the opinion of the management team in our group, that's what moderators are for. A reminder to the offending party to either 'shape up or ship out' is sent, pointing out that the guidelines are in place for a reason. Yes, there were some members of our group (when it was on Y!G) that made issue with some of the guidelines that were established and they insisted their way was better, or the rules were stupid (without necessarily knowing the background of the rule), but our answer was always 'But it's Gary's group, so he gets to set the rules.' Gary has, sadly, passed on, and a group of us have taken up the continuance of his group and while we may tweak things a little (like moving it to GRIO) we still maintain that idea that 99% of the members want to behave and will and the other 1% won't no matter how much we want them to; don't punish the 99% for the sins of the 1%. And membership is strictly voluntary: don't like our guidelines and rules, start your own group.

Your group may be different, but that's our experience.

Dave

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On Mar 6, 2018, at 12:07 AM, debbie <debbiesther@...> wrote:

The issue of many people not reading our guidelines (which includes all our subscription change possibilities) is very bad. They all seem to think that it does not apply to them and that they do not need to save a copy. (Subject line says Read and Save!) I want it to be in their faces, but not more than once a week to annoy the people too much that do actually use the guidelines.?

Once per week would drive me nuts. I’d make a mailbox rule to delete that before I saw it. It would take me about two weeks to decide to never see that again.