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Sending a message to all but one member of the Group

 

So, I've researched this in the User Manual and on this forum. And the simple answer is "NO".
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We are trying to get out a notice - to all but him - that there will be a surprise party for one of our members who has worked 50 years as a firefighter.
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But is there a way?
I wonder if there's a work-around by disabling the specific members account, or temporarily setting him to 'No Emails' for the duration of the Send? (from the time I compose the message until I Send it)
I've already figured that I could Send it Locked - so no replies could come back from it.
And then I'd go into the Message/Topic list and Delete it - within moments of Sending it. Other than administratively, there wouldn't be a trace of it.
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Do you think that would work? Thanks for your brain power.
 

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 06:42 PM, Dan Tucker wrote:
We are trying to get out a notice - to all but him - that there will be a surprise party for one of our members who has worked 50 years as a firefighter.
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But is there a way?
I wonder if there's a work-around by disabling the specific members account, or temporarily setting him to 'No Emails' for the duration of the Send? (from the time I compose the message until I Send it)
I've already figured that I could Send it Locked - so no replies could come back from it.
And then I'd go into the Message/Topic list and Delete it - within moments of Sending it. Other than administratively, there wouldn't be a trace of it.
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Do you think that would work? Thanks for your brain power.
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I can think of two possible solutions without posting and deleting messages to your main group.
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Option 1
If you have a premium group, just create a subgroup and put everyone apart from this member in there. Then send a message to the subgroup. You may wish to update the subgroup Privacy settings so that it's not easily visible from the main group:
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Option 2
  • Change your Settings > Preferences > Items Per Page to Infinite scroll
  • View the member list of your group and keep scrolling down until you get to the bottom and no more lines are loaded on the display
  • Scroll to the top of the member list and select the checkbox in the header row to the left of the Display Name column - this will select all members in the list
  • Locate the member you do not wish to send a message to and clear the checkbox next to their name
  • Scroll to the bottom of the list, click the Actions button and choose Send Message
  • On the next page, enter your message and click Send.?
  • Change your Items Per Page back to what it was.
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Regards
Andy
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On 2024-08-23 14:39, Andy Wedge via groups.io wrote:
I can think of two possible solutions without posting and deleting messages to your main group.

There's also a third option which doesn't involve emailing from groups.io itself, export the memberlist CSV, extract all the addresses but his, and send a (BCC) offlist email from your own email address.

I've posted in the past a VBscript that will extract those addresses from the CSV for you without needing Excel or whatnot, it's here:
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/45919
The instructions tell you to filter for RI (since it was written for that intent specifically) but ignore that part, use no filter.

Cheers,
Christos
 

Christos and Andy,

Thanks to you both/each for your deeply thought-out suggestions. I knew it would either be simple - like 'Select all' then check off one, or...something else. The SubGroup idea is really a stretch outta the park. I hope I can avoid it. That's kind of like going around your big toe to get from your left ear to the right one.


On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 11:22?AM Christos Psarras via <christos=[email protected]> wrote:

On 2024-08-23 14:39, Andy Wedge via wrote:
I can think of two possible solutions without posting and deleting messages to your main group.

There's also a third option which doesn't involve emailing from itself, export the memberlist CSV, extract all the addresses but his, and send a (BCC) offlist email from your own email address.

I've posted in the past a VBscript that will extract those addresses from the CSV for you without needing Excel or whatnot, it's here:
/g/GroupManagersForum/message/45919
The instructions tell you to filter for RI (since it was written for that intent specifically) but ignore that part, use no filter.

Cheers,
Christos
 

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 08:50 PM, Dan Tucker wrote:
I knew it would either be simple - like 'Select all' then check off one, or...something else
Dan that is precisely what you do...? ?Easy peazy.? Select all membership, uncheck the birthday boy, and send a message to all.
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-Ken??
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Mod note: A direct question to Dan about an item unrelated to this topic removed

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