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Hi,
I¡¯ve just joined here, thanks for the link Shal.
I have just taken over as owner of a group set up by a friend last year as a trial and am carefully finding my way around it.
I have a couple of questions please...
1... I want to ¡°vet¡± pending members before I approve their membership. From looking in the archives, it seems that I can¡¯t have a message sent automatically and I would have to do it by emailing them personally myself... is this correct?
2... Most of my prospective members will opt for receiving the group messages in to their email client, but a couple may want to choose to read on the group page on occasions. Is there any way to take off the ¡°conversation¡± mode and have each message just displayed in the list, not lumped together like this?
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That is very helpful here, but hardly any messages in my group will have a thread.
Thanks, I¡¯m looking forward to your reply.
Win
 

Win,

I¡¯ve just joined here, thanks for the link Shal.
You're welcome. You're posterid #566,976 at Groups.io.

An unimportant number, I think, but it does indicate how much Groups.io has grown recently. Not that long ago new subscribers had numbers in the 100,000 range.

1... I want to ¡°vet¡± pending members before I approve their
membership. From looking in the archives, it seems that I can¡¯t have a
message sent automatically and I would have to do it by emailing them
personally myself... is this correct?
Nope.

Go to your Group's Settings page, Member Notices tab, and if there isn't already a notice of type "Pending Subscription" click on the blue "New Notice" button (at the bottom of the list) and create one with "Pending Subscription as its Notice Type.

Be sure to check the "Active Message" box so that this message will be sent automatically when someone applies to join your group. When you finish composing the message body, click the blue "Add Notice" button at the bottom to save it.

Is there any way to take off the ¡°conversation¡± mode and have each
message just displayed in the list, not lumped together like this?
"Topics" is the default view, but the leftmost blue button above the list of messages is a view selector. Other choices are "Messages" (the view you're looking for, I think), "Expanded", and "Polls".

Shal
 

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Thanks Shal for your very clear instructions, both tasks completed.
One more question... I have taken over this group from the previous owner (at her suggestion) but she wants to remain a member. At the moment we both show as Owner. How do I change her status to Member?
Thanks again
Win
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Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2018 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [GMF] new member
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Win,

> I¡¯ve just joined here, thanks for the link Shal.

You're welcome. You're posterid #566,976 at Groups.io.

An unimportant number, I think, but it does indicate how much Groups.io
has grown recently. Not that long ago new subscribers had numbers in the
100,000 range.

> 1... I want to ¡°vet¡± pending members before I approve their
> membership. From looking in the archives, it seems that I can¡¯t have a
> message sent automatically and I would have to do it by emailing them
> personally myself... is this correct?

Nope.

Go to your Group's Settings page, Member Notices tab, and if there isn't
already a notice of type "Pending Subscription" click on the blue "New
Notice" button (at the bottom of the list) and create one with "Pending
Subscription as its Notice Type.

Be sure to check the "Active Message" box so that this message will be
sent automatically when someone applies to join your group. When you
finish composing the message body, click the blue "Add Notice" button at
the bottom to save it.

> Is there any way to take off the ¡°conversation¡± mode and have each
> message just displayed in the list, not lumped together like this?

"Topics" is the default view, but the leftmost blue button above the
list of messages is a view selector. Other choices are "Messages" (the
view you're looking for, I think), "Expanded", and "Polls".

Shal
 

Win,

At the moment we both show as Owner. How do I change her status to
Member?
Click onto the Members list (drop down the Admin menu in the left column). Above the list is a button to select "Members", "Moderators", "Pending Approval", "Bouncing" or "Banned". You can use either Members or Moderators, but the latter will be a shorter list (presumably!) making it easy to find her.

Click on her row, anywhere except on the checkbox. That will open up her membership page. Find the Role drop-list, and change he setting to "Member". Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

Shal

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