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Re: Purpose Of Beta Group
Hi Don,
Why don‘t you have a look at the group‘s main page yourself? You can open it without registering - just open the web site?
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(I‘ve left out the https stuff so you have to complete the link yourself).?
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Am 09.04.2025 um 07:44 schrieb Don Grass via groups.io <dgrass1@...>:
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Re: Encryption?
On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM, Kathryn Lawrie [CCDHB] wrote:
I have been trying to find information about security of Io groups = particularly the encryption if there is any? The groups.io site uses standard TLS certification to encrypt data while in transit to/from the site to your browser. This should alleviate most concerns folks might have with accessing the system on public wifi.
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That's the only "encryption" I'm aware of. If you're looking for something specific, please explain.
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Bruce
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Re: Encryption?
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As a starting point, there is a Privacy Policy for and in that there is a section on security and confidentiality of your personal information.
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You might also check the other categories in this page such as the data processing agreement.
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Re: Requiring name on sign up
This one is a potential ‘sticky wicket’ as some have noted. And, for any and many reasons, some folks want to remain anonymous to the rest, and some groups want unabashed outright attachments made. ? I manage a few Groups, among them a Group for Retired, Past, Associated, and Current members of a moderately large fire department. Our membership includes folks who retired from the department in the 80’s – who none of the Current or even past 25 years membership may have only heard of, or not. Likewise, those of us oldtimers (I worked from ’69-2002; retired since then), know those older than us but few who hired on after we retired – and some of them are retiring now! A display name of ‘bumperbender’ might be readily recognized by anyone who was around when the ‘bumper bending’ took place, but not by anyone who joins today; or, conversely, if the bumper got bent today, none of the oldtimers would have a clue who it was. “HoseA” and “JoseB” just don’t identify anything or anyone. And the common theme among all of us is that at one time or another we shared some of our many ‘family of things.’ Unlike so many people and groups – we’ve slept in each other’s beds, eaten from the same plates, and possibly pulled each other’s bacon out of a fire. ? We insist on using/showing the ‘real name’ – and/or, in the case or a ‘widow or widower/significant other’ we’ll show the actual name of the Group member with the name of the former firefighter in parenthesis. i.e. ‘John Brown’, versus “Jane (John) Brown”. I tell any proposed new member that I send an invite to that they should “fill in YOUR KNOWN NAME in the Display Name field when you get to the sign-in page. If you don’t, I’ll fill it in for you.” I’ve had a few applicants who only submitted with their email moniker…and held the application until I got an answer back from them identifying them and assuring I knew they were ‘one of us’ and appropriate for membership; then approved them and added their appropriate Display Name. ? -- Dan Tucker [Personal information trimmed by Moderator] |
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Re: Pileup at Storage Limit! Now what?
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 04:06 PM, Laurie Anne Sims wrote:
The Old Attachments Auto-Removal switch was on Keep in mind that only old attachments are removed.? Any files or photos that are uploaded are not touched, so you may still have to delete some.
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Re: Pileup at Storage Limit! Now what?
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 05:06 PM, Laurie Anne Sims wrote:
Laurie -- You're not the first to report this. ? ?
The "old attachments" purge job runs only once a week (I don't remember what day). If you need to free up space sooner than that, you should probably start "panic deleting."?
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Bruce
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Re: Requiring name on sign up
> And what possible difference can it make???
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My main group is for residents of my neighborhood only. We require each prospective member to tell us their full name and to put that name in their display field. We also require them to tell us their property address. We verify their information with state property records; if there is any question about their authenticity I contact someone at a neighboring home. Only then do we approve their membership.?
My members want to feel safe knowing that they’re having a discussion with an actual neighbor and not any random person who feels like joining.?
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Pileup at Storage Limit! Now what?
A member was uploading a stack of PDFs, a dozen or more, multi page.? I had told her it was OK because I thought it was.? Suddenly a NO MORE ROOM alert!!? The Old Attachments Auto-Removal switch was on, and I'd not received an 80% warning.
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My guess is that the space filled too quickly for the fail-safes to kick in, so my instinct is to sit tight to see if it fixes itself overnight.? Is that reasonable?? Or, should I start panic deleting on my own?
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Re: Requiring name on sign up
Hi Sarah,
However, in this instance, how on earth would you ever know if John Jones is in real life actually Harry Smith?My only Group that its not Restricted Membership is Announcement only, so it doesn’t matter. My only other Group that I haven’t personally met members before Approving them, I have a Pending Member notice sent asking: 1) Why do you want to Join? 2) What is your real First and Last Name? Plausible answers to both questions get Approva. Incomplete or non-answers get at least one resend of the Pending Member notice and/or a personal inquiry from me. Some members may be submitting a false name, but our focus isn’t confidential and our Messages archive is public. New Member Posts Require Approval, which also helps to vet new members. I believe most people who don’t conceal their identity are more likely to be courteous and respectful in discussions. I have only in a few instances put anyone temporarily back on Moderation. I have had to announce that there is a “Mute Topic” link on each message and there are Subscription > Settings > Advanced Preferences > Message Selection options "Following Only”, "First Message Also”, and "Auto Follow Replies” options for those who aren’t interested in a particular Topic and/or have complained of too many messages -Michael |
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Re: Requiring name on sign up
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 04:21 PM, Sarah Shapiro wrote:
I can give one example:? One of my groups is associated with a parent organization that holds regular in-person meetings and outreach events (i.e.: we are not just a bunch of people talking over the internet). In that context we'd like to be able to reliably associate each message with a person. Our group Guidelines - sent every month - make it clear that we expect folks to use their real name and that "handles" are not allowed. Having said that, it isn't strictly enforced.
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More generally, there are more than 50,000 groups here, each created for a different reason. The many groups.io options/settings already available are designed to serve them all (or try to). We need to keep such things in mind before telling someone what they do or don't need. Allow me to be the first to admit that I don't always do a good job of that.?
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Bruce
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Re: Requiring name on sign up
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 08:43 AM, Karen Yun-Lutz wrote:
Is there a way to require new people signing up to include their name? There is, but it requires a paid group.? You'd create an Extra Member Data field for it, then make those required when they apply.? It only works for those that apply online, not via email.
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Re: Requiring name on sign up
Names is tricky thing. Many a family gathering had three generations of “David”. My father-in-law immediately simplified things by immediately adapting “Wally”. Thus we had “young David“, David & Wally. Pops neatly sidestepped “Old” or “Ancient” David.
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In one of my groups there is resistance to using a name, even as I assure that I don’t care if it’s real. I consider it polite to address a person by name, even if it’s false or I think it should be “mud”
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The one unspoken rule in the group is no politics. I recently allowed a topic of “Tariffs” ?for 48 hours with a demand for curtesy and a big stick “your posts will be set to ‘moderated’”. I got one direct nasty gram and was pleasantly surprised at how civility was maintained.
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Re: Image File Extensions
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 03:58 AM, Don Grass wrote:
What image file extensions can be used in Photo Albums in 开云体育? It seems to allow only those formats that are likely to be displayable in a native browser (i.e.: without add-ons).
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Allowed: BMP, PNG, AVIF, WEBP, GIF, JPG, possibly others (I quit testing there)
Disallowed: TGA, HEIC, TIFF, PSP, many others
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Bruce
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Re: Requiring name on sign up
开云体育Hi Bruce,I tried this right away, and it works as you describe. I changed my display name in 1 group, by editing the subscription entry, and that change stuck (incl. subgroups, as expected). In other main groups the old name (from the groups.io user profile) remained what it was.? I didn‘t try to clear the name altogether - will try that next and report the result. Of course - we don‘t want a legally binding subscription with the correct name in groups.io I think. There are enough organisations with 3 letter abbreviations that can work on finding out the correct name from an email address … Thomas |
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Re: Requiring name on sign up
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM, Thomas Gruber wrote:
Thomas -- Yes, you can. ?
In my experience, Display Name gets auto-populated by an incoming email only if initially empty. If you manually change/clear it by editing a subscription record, it remains that way (I would welcome further testing on this).
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Which brings up a point that I meant to mention to Karen, but forgot - even if you force your subscribers to enter something, there's no assurance that a real name will be provided.
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This is certainly another way to provide a second level of anonymity.
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Bruce
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Re: What is a "locked" subgroup?
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 08:24 AM, Otto J. Arnoscht N4UZZ wrote:
To the locked subgroups, no. They are locked and inaccessible. ?
You should still be able to invite new members to the main group, if you aren't already over the 100-member limit.
Interesting question. You can't delete them from a subgroup, because you won't have access to the member lists there. But you should be able to delete someone from the main group and they'll still automatically be removed from all subgroups (I have not tested this).
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Before doing all this, you might want to look into Sponsorships. Your members might surprise you, and contribute enough funds to keep you afloat.
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Bruce
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