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Freezing a Topic but Allowing Reply To Sender

Ken Adams All Messages By This Member #48677 I am considering allowing limited personal sales by subscribers of my groups subject related personal completed models, surplus kits or model parts with the enforced condition that the members must only reply to sender and complete their transactions outside of Groups.io. Currently if I freeze a topic after reviewing the initial message and finding a sales message, the reply to sender option is no longer available. I don't want to have to require the original sender to include their email address in the message.? ? Is what I want already available in the current group settings or will this require a software modification. I could not find how to accomplish this process described in the documentation.? ? thanks -- Ken Adams Plastic Freight Car Builders (PlasticFreightCarBuiilders.groups.io) Owner and Moderator
Frances All Messages By This Member #48678 On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 02:19 PM, Ken Adams wrote: Currently if I freeze a topic after reviewing the initial message and finding a sales message, the reply to sender option is no longer available. I don't want to have to require the original sender to include their email address in the message.? ? What about moderating posts rather than locking the topic? Set up a canned reply in Notices, Rejected Message and ask the sender to reply directly to the other member. (You can set up a variety of replies for rejected messages.) ? Frances ? ? -- Help available from Groups.io help and GMF wiki. ?
Duane All Messages By This Member #48679 On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 01:19 PM, Ken Adams wrote: Is what I want already available in the current group settings Sort of.? You can change the setting of a topic (NOT message) to Reply To Sender without locking it.? Keep in mind that whatever settings you use on the group, it won't totally prevent folks from getting around it.? Some seem to take pleasure in making things more difficult for moderators.? There has been discussion about having a classified section for a group, but there's been no action taken in several years. ? You could create a hashtag, say #ForSale, that should be used when offering things, but they'd need to start a new topic with it instead of using it in a reply. ? Duane -- Lots of detailed information can be found in the Owners Manual and Members Manual.
Bruce Bowman All Messages By This Member #48680 On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 02:19 PM, Ken Adams wrote: Currently if I freeze a topic after reviewing the initial message and finding a sales message, the reply to sender option is no longer available. I don't want to have to require the original sender to include their email address in the message.? Things can be changed after the fact by editing Topic Properties, but this does not affect header lines in the original post, which has already gone out as emails. Too little, too late. ? What I've done for such single-post announcements is create a hashtag with the Reply-to setting of "Reply Only to Sender." When used, the reply-to line in the message header is correct and the topic is immediately locked; attempts to reply to the group - inadvertent or otherwise - get bounced. As a side benefit, the hashtag allows those who aren't interested in For Sale items to mute them from their mail delivery entirely. ? The key point here is "when used"...many people simply won't apply the hashtag. You can enforce it during moderation, but if you have neither the time nor inclination to do that then you may be out of luck. ? Hope this helps, Bruce Check out the groups.io Help Center?and?groups.io Owners Manual
Christos Psarras Member Profile All Messages By This Member #48681 开云体育 Ken, ... Currently if I freeze a topic after reviewing the initial message and finding a sales message, ... By "reviewing the initial message" do you mean you moderate all messages in your groups before posting, or do you mean after it has posted and you notice it? Cheers, Christos
Ken Adams All Messages By This Member #48688 Christos, et al., ? I allow the topic to be created and I review any new topics and messages the next day or whenever I see it.? We are not a high volume group. Although there are over 400 subscribers pushing the group into premium territory, there have been no more than an average of 10 messages a week over the last year. I only get about 2-3 sales type messages a month.? Nearly all have included a reply offline to sender in their message.? ? It is not a burning issue. I just want to keep the group from becoming a flea market before loosing control.? -- Ken Adams Plastic Freight Car Builders (PlasticFreightCarBuiilders.groups.io) Owner and Moderator
Christos Psarras Member Profile All Messages By This Member #48689 开云体育 On 2025-01-21 12:59, Ken Adams via groups.io wrote: ...? Nearly all have included a reply offline to sender in their message. ... In my experience, even if they do some people will still just hit Reply! I allow the topic to be created and I review any new topics and messages the next day or whenever I see it.? We are not a high volume group. Although there are over 400 subscribers pushing the group into premium territory, there have been no more than an average of 10 messages a week over the last year. I only get about 2-3 sales type messages a month.? It is not a burning issue. I just want to keep the group from becoming a flea market before loosing control.? OK, but since you only get a few messages and it wouldn't be too much work, there's also the option of setting the group to Moderate First, which will catch all messages starting a new topic but allow any replies to it go though, then if it's a for sale one, you can add the ForSale hashtag with it, so this way the message will go out with the ReplyToSender address. Cheers, Christos

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