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Question: Archives, Subscription Options, Icons on Front Page, Time Stamps

 

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Questions:

1. Archives ¡ª How long are messages in the archives preserved?

2. Subscription Options -- ?I want to be able to send special notices that are delivered to everyone immediately no matter what their subscription options are. These are security alerts, dangerous weather alerts, major event cancellations, etc. Is that possible no matter what the other options are?

3. Subscription Options ¡ª who can send special notices? Everyone, moderators, subscribers?

4. Group Settings ¡ª Under Group settings the icons are confusing:
  • Slashed zero in front of ?"Archives are visible to subscribers only.¡± ¡ª what does the icon mean?
  • A reply arrow in front of?"Messages are set to reply to group.¡± ¡ª What does the arrow mean?
  • Slashed zero in front of "Members can edit their posts.¡± ¡ª ambiguous No and Yes at the same time.
  • Slashed zero in front of "Members can set their subscriptions to no email.¡±¡ª another ambiguous.
I think the Group Settings would be perfectly clear without the icons as long as they said can or cannot. Or if both icons for each setting appeared with one crossed out.

5. Subgrouos ¡ª Can main group members send messages to a subgroup If they are not a subscriber to it? For example, we have a Board list that people often want to send information to but don¡¯t want to be a member of that subgroup.

6. Time Stamps ¡ª Several members of our Tech Pod were going through all the settings and joining and approving members, etc. We notices that the time stamps were different on the same messages. Shouldn¡¯t those all be the same since they would be the time of the ?server?

Thank you,

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
 

Sharon,

1. Archives ¡ª How long are messages in the archives preserved?
Indefinitely. As long as Groups.io remains in business I think.

2. Subscription Options -- I want to be able to send special notices
that are delivered to everyone immediately no matter what their
subscription options are.
There's a "Disable No Email" group option so that members would have to select at least Special Notices. Of course, you can't be sure that members look at their inbox, or don't have a mail filter, etc.

3. Subscription Options ¡ª who can send special notices? Everyone,
moderators, subscribers?
Moderators.

4. Group Settings ¡ª Under Group settings the icons are confusing:
And pretty much meaningless. I think they were originally intended to match the option - as the reverse arrow suggests "reply". But Mark soon ran out of icons, and/or imagination.

5. Subgrouos ¡ª Can main group members send messages to a subgroup If
they are not a subscriber to it?
Optional, sort-of.

Subgroups have the "Allow Non Subscribers to Post" option just like primary groups, but it works the same - allows anyone (general public) to post (all such postings are moderated). I've asked for a subgroup setting to specifically allow primary group members to post unmoderated, but it was a side conversation under a different topic. So perhaps it should be raised again in a topic of its own.


6. Time Stamps ¡ª Several members of our Tech Pod were going through
all the settings and joining and approving members, etc. We notices
that the time stamps were different on the same messages. Shouldn¡¯t
those all be the same ...
No. Each member sees times expressed in their own time zone, per their Account setting.

Shal

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