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On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 11:58 AM, Lin Duke wrote:

How is it possible for two groups to have identical names bar one dropping 'group' ?

As long as the complete name is different, they're different groups.? MyTestGroup, MyTest, MyGroup, and TestGroup are not the same.? Enterprise groups can apparently use other names as aliases though, preventing someone else from using them.

Duane
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Lin,

I believe it is possible.? WHY?? Our Yahoo group had 3 spin-offs.? Over there the names were nearly all the same thing.? Now, with Yahoo as a listserv and the owners are all gone, our membership chose to re-unite all of the groups back to one.? The sub-groups are all the splits for archive history and the main is going forward all UNITED.? :)

For our group, having another one with a similar name would be missing content and key members that have decades of experience.? Thus, another group with a similar name would be short lived not having resources nor subject experts in our hobby and farming skill sets with certain machines.
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BMaverick

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 01:27 PM, Duane wrote:

Enterprise groups can apparently use other names as aliases though, preventing someone else from using them.

This is also available at the Premium level. My primary group ias-indy has aliases of ias and indianaastronomicalsociety.

Bruce

Lin,

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 11:58 AM, Lin Duke wrote:

>>> How is it possible for two groups to have identical names bar one dropping 'group' ?

Technically, 99% NO and 1% YES.

First, by "group name" I take it you mean "email address prefix" really (which is what Groups.io uses for top-level group uniqueness), and not "group title"; the group title can be the same as anything else.? For example, I can create a top-level group, [email protected], and title it " My XYZ group", and you create another top-level group, [email protected], and you can also title it "My XYZ group" .? Groups,io uses the combination of the group email address and the title in the group directory, so in this example one would see "XYZ / My XYZ group" and "ABC / My XYZ group" if they were to search for "XYZ" in the group directory.

So the 99% part of NO means, when one creates a group at the top-level (not a subgroup), the name (email address prefix) they choose has to be unique against all other top-level groups, aliases, etc., no way around this.? The group creation screen will tell you if you used an existing name/email address prefix; if I try to name my group ABC and [email protected] already exists, I will have to choose something else.

The 1% YES means that you can indeed create a subgroup with the same name/email address prefix as a top-level group, or any other subgroup for that matter, as long as that subgroup's name is not already in your own top-level group as a subgroup (i.e. all your group's subgroups have to have different names / email address prefixes between them ala the top-level restriction mentioned above)? The reason this is allowed is because Groups.io incorporates the subgroup name with the main/top-level email address, so it is now unique.? For example, using the above, example:
Top-level [email protected] and [email protected], XYZ group can create a subgroup named "ABC", because the resultant group name (full email address) becomes [email protected] and the URL is now XYZ.groups.io/g/ABC, which are different than the top-level [email protected] and groups.io/g/ABC.

Cheers,
Christos