Hello guys, I know that this is a draft process, but I wanted to alert everybody to what is going on currently right now at groups io. And I'm hoping that most of you if not all of you, Will encourage other members to at least log into their accounts, so that they could stay verified. And if you're an owner of a group, you should be checking your members for sure. My plan is in the next day or so, to check and see if there are any of you that are unverified I know on some of my groups, that I run myself, I have old addresses that are in bouncing status and some of those people have either not unsubscribe with those email addresses and applied with new ones or chose to go in an active status. So I recommend reading this all the way through and checking to see if your subscription for any of your groups is affected. Please read the below to get more information
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From: "Mark Fletcher"?
Subject: Re: [beta] Reverification Topic Started 1.23.24 #misc
Date: January 23, 2024 at 12:04:41?PM CST
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Hi All,
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Here is a first draft of an email to moderators. Please let me know if you have any feedback.
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Thanks,
Mark
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Hello,
You are receiving this email because you are a moderator of one or more Groups.io groups. We are in the process of reverifying some of our users and we wanted to make sure you knew what was happening and why. For more detail about this, please visit the Reverification FAQ, at
/static/reverifyfaqOn Saturday January 13th, 2024, an anti-spam service called Spamhaus labeled one of our email servers as a spam sender. This caused any email service that uses Spamhaus to stop accepting email from our server. Because of this, we began a reverification process and sent out reverification emails to a subset of our users on Sunday January 14th. Spamhaus lifted their block on Monday, January 15th, 2024, but we need to continue the reverification process.
You can see which, if any, of your users are affected. Go to the Admin section of your group and look at the Members page. Next to each user's email, there may be a badge with the letters RI or RS. RI means the confirmation/reverification is in progress, but has not been completed. RS means the confirmation/reverification has been successfully completed.
Here are the next steps in the reverification process:
- On Sunday, January 28th, group emails to people in the RI state will be disabled. Messages from moderators and login link emails will still work.
- Until February 11th, people will still be able to reverify themselves and the RI and RS badges will still show up in the Members page.
- After that, members still in the RI state will be removed from groups. The activity log entry will be Membership - Member Removed, with the added reason of reverification failed.
For domains where no reverifications happened, no invites or Direct Adds will be permitted going forward. If there is a valid person on one of those domains, they should contact
[email protected] to have the domain ban lifted.
We apologize for the inconvenience this process may cause, but it is necessary to ensure that we are able to continue delivering group email reliably. Thank you for using Groups.io.
Best Regards,
The Groups.io Team
