On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 10:27 AM, Brady Turner wrote:
I have set up a group for my club and a private subgroup for the club¡¯s officers and board of directors.? Any club member can send a message to the subgroup.
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I would like to have the default message reply to option to be ¡®reply to group¡¯ with an optional ¡®reply to group and sender¡¯.? That way if the board gets a question/issue from the club member they can discuss it within the group privately and when they come to an answer respond to the sender, but also have a copy of their formal reply to the sender retained in the subgroup (for historical context).? The board members change on a yearly basis, so in order to retain confidentiality of the internal board discussion, the default reply option should be ¡®reply to group.¡¯
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Looking at the message reply to options in the GIO web interface, I see ¡®reply to group¡¯ and an option to select the ¡®private¡¯ button which then only replies to the sender (with the option of BCC¡¯ing the sender, but not the group).? The other option is ¡®reply to group and sender¡¯ also with the ¡®private¡¯ button, which again only replies to the sender (with the option of BCC¡¯ing the sender, but not the group). ?In the GIO web interface I don¡¯t see any option to modify the distribution list of the reply (yes, in an email client you can do this)
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I thought I should check with others to see if I am missing a setting to enable this behavior, or if I should submit this as an enhancement request to the Beta group.? Seems like this would be a common use case.
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Interesting!?
Changing reply settings to Group and Sender only gives you that one choice through the group. Not what you are looking for, I believe.
Perhaps the main issue is replying to the main group member after you have discussed it privately in the subgroup.?
If there was an extra choice for private, that would work. So not just bcc me, but another option bcc me and subgroup.
That would be clearer. And probably relatively easy change.
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Another question - can you receive the message from the main group member, discuss it for a couple of weeks, and then go back to the first item in the topic (the message from the main group member) and then reply privately to that main group member with the optional bcc me and the group? Is there a time limit?
If instead the change was to add a reply choice through a dropdown menu between Reply to Group and Sender and just Reply to Group, you might inadvertently send something to the wrong people. The private subgroup discussion could go to the original writer who is not a member of the subgroup.?So if there would be choices about reply destination, it shouldn't be a dropdown menu, but another button. That would lessen the chance of such an error.
Frances
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Moving to Groups.io (without easy transfer)
GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers
Frances