How to list your moderators or co-owners?
I need to do some maintenance in my IO groups and want to see who are moderators/co-owners. I don't see a link or tab for that but it must be there and I'm just overlooking it. Donald Join the Icom group, a general Icom discussion group on Groups.io: /g/ICOM (just launched)
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Re: How to make sure the previous post replied to appears beneath my post
Received from Bruce Bowman at 8/24/2018 11:25 PM UTC: On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 06:51 PM, Sylvia Pack wrote:
We all want to the message we are replying to attached to our post.
What can we do?
In groups.io, you have to manually append or insert excerpts from the original message in your post. When replying online, click on the "quote bubble" at the far left end of the taskbar (to the left of the "Formats" pull-down). How to do this via email depends on what email client you are using.
Hope this helps,
Bruce The problem may be Gmail. Sylvia has a Gmail address. Members of my groups responding via Gmail tend (not all) to have problems with overquoting or not quoting when replying and tend to be frustrated at being unable to resolve it. I don't do Gmail so can't offer more than this observation. Jim H
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Re: How to make sure the previous post replied to appears beneath my post
While we're at it, you might want to take a look at this thread, regarding how much of the quoted text is actually passed thru with the various subscription options. /g/GroupManagersForum/topic/20297281#8787I think the key message here is that everyone has their own preferences, and enforcing quoting rules by software is probably not an achievable goal. As for me, the Yahoo approach where the entire message was always appended was a palpable annoyance, particularly in a digest. ? Regards, Bruce -- The system Help is your friend.?? /static/help
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Re: Disable Members from reading Messages from Homepage
Okay I will remember that.
I will see if they want to do the hashtag method first..
You have been very helpful.
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Date: 8/24/2018 6:33:57 PM
Subject: Re: [GMF] Disable Members from reading Messages from Homepage #Ilene
? On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 06:47 PM, magicalkingdomgroups@... wrote:
The other option that I just thought of is making them moderators and let them have the ability to lock their own messages once they make an offer to prevent members from requesting from the messages and not from the email. Sounds like a plan. Just keep in mind that to have them lock their own messages they will have to be logged in and using the web interface. The hashtag-lock option works either way -- online or in email. Good luck, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.?? /static/help
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Re: How to make sure the previous post replied to appears beneath my post
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 06:51 PM, Sylvia Pack wrote:
We all want to the message we are replying to attached to our post.
What can we do?
In groups.io, you have to manually append or insert excerpts from the original message in your post. When replying online, click on the "quote bubble" at the far left end of the taskbar (to the left of the "Formats" pull-down). How to do this via email depends on what email client you are using.? Hope this helps, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.?? /static/help
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Re: Disable Members from reading Messages from Homepage
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 06:47 PM, magicalkingdomgroups@... wrote:
The other option that I just thought of is making them moderators and let them have the ability to lock their own messages once they make an offer to prevent members from requesting from the messages and not from the email.
Sounds like a plan. Just keep in mind that to have them lock their own messages they will have to be logged in and using the web interface. The hashtag-lock option works either way -- online or in email. Good luck, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.?? /static/help
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How to make sure the previous post replied to appears beneath my post
Hi,
I am co-owner of a group, and my problem is this:
When I receive group messages in my personal mailbox, they automatically come with the message replied to beneath them. Mine do not.
When I read group messages at the site, I find that only a few members have the previous message they are automatically appearing after their post. The rest show as a stand alone post.
We all want to the message we are replying to attached to our post.
What can we do?
Many thanks
Sylvia
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Re: Disable Members from reading Messages from Homepage
Okay I think I understand what I need to do.
You explained it very well.
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Now since there are only a select # of?members posting to the 2 groups where this has been a problem, the group (taggers) they will be the only ones required to learn what to do.
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I will?propose this solution to them and see if it seems feasible and something they would like to do until?or if a change in the program can or will be made.
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The other option that I just thought of is making them moderators and let them have the ability to lock their own messages once they make an offer to prevent members from requesting from the messages and not from the email.
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Thanks again! Ilene
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Date: 8/24/2018 4:33:55 PM
Subject: Re: [GMF] Disable Members from reading Messages from Homepage #Ilene
? On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:14 PM, magicalkingdomgroups@... wrote:
Then I went to each message and locked them. This way no one could request a tag from the archives.
They all need to be requested from their email that they receive.
If I wanted this to be a message board - I would reopen my proboards forum LOL
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But thanks, I will make it a suggestion. It would be a good idea to have something where only the Mods and Owners could have access to. Ilene -- Reopening this thread based on our brief discussion in beta. Here is my proposed work-around, in hopes that it might help you. Keep track of what you're doing so you can undo it later if necessary. Go to Admin>Settings.? Under Message Policies, click on the checkbox that says "Hashtags Required." Pull down the Hashtag Permissions and select "Posts by subscribers can only be tagged with existing hashtags, otherwise the message is bounced." Click Update Group Now click on Hashtags from the left menu bar and click on the Create Hashtag button. Name the hashtag anything you want, starting with a pound sign (#) Select the "Locked" checkbox. Click on the Create Hashtag button again. Now your group has one hashtag, and it is required. It will lock the topic immediately upon posting. What you have to do now is train your subscribers to use it every time. They have to place it in the subject line of every message, preceded with the pound sign (#). Notice how I placed the hashtag #Ilene on this message. If they don't do that with your new hashtag, their message will be sent back for revision until they add it. This is not the same as a message delivery bounce.? On the whole, this may end up being more of a nuisance than your current problem of having to manually lock topics yourself. Only you can decide. Hope this helps, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.?? /static/help
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Re: Disable Members from reading Messages from Homepage
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:14 PM, magicalkingdomgroups@... wrote:
Then I went to each message and locked them. This way no one could request a tag from the archives.
They all need to be requested from their email that they receive.
If I wanted this to be a message board - I would reopen my proboards forum LOL
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But thanks, I will make it a suggestion. It would be a good idea to have something where only the Mods and Owners could have access to.
Ilene -- Reopening this thread based on our brief discussion in beta. Here is my proposed work-around, in hopes that it might help you. Keep track of what you're doing so you can undo it later if necessary. Go to Admin>Settings.? Under Message Policies, click on the checkbox that says "Hashtags Required." Pull down the Hashtag Permissions and select "Posts by subscribers can only be tagged with existing hashtags, otherwise the message is bounced." Click Update Group Now click on Hashtags from the left menu bar and click on the Create Hashtag button. Name the hashtag anything you want, starting with a pound sign (#) Select the "Locked" checkbox. Click on the Create Hashtag button again. Now your group has one hashtag, and it is required. It will lock the topic immediately upon posting. What you have to do now is train your subscribers to use it every time. They have to place it in the subject line of every message, preceded with the pound sign (#). Notice how I placed the hashtag #Ilene on this message. If they don't do that with your new hashtag, their message will be sent back for revision until they add it. This is not the same as a message delivery bounce.? On the whole, this may end up being more of a nuisance than your current problem of having to manually lock topics yourself. Only you can decide. Hope this helps, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.?? /static/help
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Re: I messed things up, how do I fix it?
Thank you. My group appeared again with the new name. Whew!
Paige
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Re: 'Member' button absent
Marilyn:
I belong to four groups and the others have a 'Members' button but the one I am supposed to be the Moderator for does not. ??????
Have you clicked on Admin?? As a moderator, you may find Members listed as one of the Admin drop-down options.? If it still isn't there, then as Duane says, the group Owner may not have given the Moderators permission to view the Member list.? The Members Visible options are "Subscribers / All Owners, and all Moderators with correct permissions / Owners Only".?
Dotty
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Re: I messed things up, how do I fix it?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 04:23 PM, Paige Loter wrote:
I created a new group called starlightperformers.groups.io to begin testing out with a small group of parents. We added a few calendar items and sent a few messages. Then it was suggested that we change the name to starlightsingers instead of starlightperformers. So in the settings for the group I just changed the name. It immediately took me to a page that says the group does not exist and now my original group does not exist either. I tried using the back button in my browser to go back to make it right and I can get to the page but it won't make the change. What should I do?
Paige
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Re: Move latest/individual messages from Yahoo to groups.io?
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Re: Move latest/individual messages from Yahoo to groups.io? #transfer From: Motti Tadmor
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:11:27 EDT
Appreciate all the answers, unfortunately, I could not have scheduled this to coincide with the transfer, as groups.io never tells you when the transfer will be done... I could have asked for a halt in messages, you are correct. We are a fishing chapter and our members are super excited to post their fishing reports, so would have been a problem... thanks for the answers I have done this by forwarding the relevant individual messages to the new list when it gets set up. The body of the message includes the original dates, etc. I would keep the old list active until the new one is set up, then close the old list to new messages. Sharon ---- Sharon Villines [email protected]"Neighbors Talking to Neighbors¡± Takoma Park DC and MD
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Al, ... still don¡¯t understand why choosing mute for a given message
doesn¡¯t hold over past the current day. Another place to check is the Messages section of the group in question. Change to "Topics" - if the message you received more recently isn't grouped with the message that you muted then somehow it wasn't considered to be the same topic - and that would prevent your Mute of that topic from blocking the newer message. Why it didn't fall into the same topic would then be its own mystery to resolve. Shal -- Help: /static/helpMore Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wikiEven More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list
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Re: 'Member' button absent
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I belong to four groups and the others have a 'Members' button but the one I am supposed to be the Moderator for does not. ??????
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Bruce, ? Thanks, read the below but still don¡¯t understand why choosing mute for a given message doesn¡¯t hold over past the current day. I will track more closely to see if I can narrow down what is happening. ? Thanks again, Al ?
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Subject: Re: [GMF] muting messages ? On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Alan Robbins wrote: I mute a lot of messages/threads on some lists simply due to having no relevance and/or interest to me. Seems fine for the day, but next day if thread persists, seems like I get the messages again. Is the mute function time limited?
There is an extensive help section of Muting and Following at?/static/help#muting?
The behavior you describe, however, is peculiar. Hashtag muting does have a duration, but not topic muting. Could it be that the subsequent messages were posted to a different group/subgroup?
Also keep in mind that muting affects email delivery only. All messages will still appear in the online message archive.
Hope this helps,
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I messed things up, how do I fix it?
I created a new group called starlightperformers.groups.io to begin testing out with a small group of parents. We added a few calendar items and sent a few messages. Then it was suggested that we change the name to starlightsingers instead of starlightperformers. So in the settings for the group I just changed the name. It immediately took me to a page that says the group does not exist and now my original group does not exist either. I tried using the back button in my browser to go back to make it right and I can get to the page but it won't make the change. What should I do?
Paige
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Alan Robbins wrote:
I mute a lot of messages/threads on some lists simply due to having no relevance and/or interest to me. Seems fine for the day, but next day if thread persists, seems like I get the messages again. Is the mute function time limited?
There is an extensive help section of Muting and Following at? /static/help#muting? The behavior you describe, however, is peculiar. Hashtag muting does have a duration, but not topic muting. Could it be that the subsequent messages were posted to a different group/subgroup? Also keep in mind that muting affects email delivery only. All messages will still appear in the online message archive. Hope this helps, Bruce? -- The system Help is your friend.?? /static/help
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