Re: moving a message to a different subgroup
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I didn't say it would be easy.? ?:-)
But that is a challenge - the Web UI is so good you can almost forget this is an email list - so even if yu move a message, the next reply to an old message would go back to the same place.? ? Perhaps forwarding to the 'other' list is the best solution, as replies would start ending up in the correct bin.
- John Mc
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:41 AM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote: John,
> Concern is someone will ask 'too general 'a question in a subgroup,
> and how do we bump the message p to the parent (or vice versa). The
> only way I can think of is to just forward it to the other group...
You didn't say if you mean while the message is pending, or after it has posted. The former case has been requested in the beta group (the Groups.io official "suggestion box"):
That topic is now locked, but you might start a new one to see if you can "bump" the idea.
Redirecting the posting while pending, and specifically from a subgroup to the parent group, seems like the easiest case to implement and understand. In this case you know that the posting member is a member of the parent group.
Redirecting a pending message to a subgroup, from either the parent or another subgroup, might require that the poster be a member of the destination subgroup.
Moving or copying a message after it has posted (if that's what you had in mind) poses some of the same issues as editing a message. One big question is whether the message is sent by email to the destination group members, or whether that should be the moderator's choice when moving/copying the message.
Shal
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John McLachlan