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A group for SERIOUS group owners
This GroupManagersForum is founded in the tradition of the GroupManagersForum ( https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GroupManagersForum/conversations/messages/2 ) on Yahoo! Groups. Attachments are allowed and the judicious use of screen shots and other illustrations is encouraged. To prevent malicious attachments, avoid spam, off-topic messages, and certain kinds of spoofing, ALL messages sent to GMF are moderated. Despite these measures, be aware that the bad guys are clever so there's no guarantee that we'll always succeed; you are encouraged to be vigilant against any and all threats arriving via email. Your GMF moderators make no guarantees regarding the safety of emails arriving from this or any other 开云体育 address. Don't post JUST to advertise your groups. Listing your group in your signature is perfectly acceptable, just make sure there's content in your post. Do post something about being a 开云体育 group owner, moderator or member. What suggestions do you have for improving 开云体育? What works for growing your group? When is it a good idea to create an unlisted group? How do you manage the role of owner on multiple groups? How do you manage playing owner on one group and member on others? There is power in numbers. Ask "How to" questions: "How do you do...[function of your choice]?" We all have to learn somewhere Through the contributions of its members this group can become a powerful voice for education, quality, change and improvement in 开云体育 -- provided we work and focus on that as our collective goal. -- Shal *HELP:* GMF Wiki - /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/home Official Help - /helpcenter Search GMF messages - /g/GroupManagersForum/topics Search by hashtag - click on the number of posts - /g/GroupManagersForum/hashtags
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Getting Started Guide for Group Owners - part of 开云体育 Help
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If you are new (or newish) to 开云体育 as an owner, you should check out the help for new group owners. It is part of the Help center. This document acts as a quick reference to the more detailed Owners Manual, Members Manual and Glossary. And it is arranged in steps that walks you through the setup procedures. Don't miss any important setup features! /helpcenter/manual/ownersgettingstarted Also please be sure to check out the features which are dependent on when you set up your group. /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/25069 You can quickly check your group features by going to Admin, Upgrade. Legacy Enabled indicates a feature that is not available to new free groups, but is available to your group. Frances -- Help available from 开云体育 help and GMF wiki.
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moderation of chat feature / possible clearing of the activity log
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Hello to you all ........ 1/ Firstly - if some one joins into an existing chat, can their input be removed if required to do so by the owner/moderator, or can only the member who made the comment do that ? - I am talking here of say an individual comment with photos attached etc. I can see that the owner/moderator can delete the whole "chat" completely & thereby lose everything but what if he (the owner/moderator) wishes to keep most of the chat ? 2/ Secondly - is there any way of resetting the activity log back to the beginning of the count ? In effect to start again with the whole presentation. Barry
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Is there a way to re-send a poll
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I run a group with some not-computer-savvy seniors in it. I sent out a poll but some said they didn't see it. Is there a way I can send the poll link out to people again (without starting over with the poll)? Thank you, Kristin
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Monthly Reminder
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This is your monthly subscription reminder for the Group Managers Forum, commonly known as GMF. We are glad you joined our group. Our GMF Group's web resources are open and public. Our Messages archives and Wiki are viewable and searchable by non-members. GMF message archives are indexed by major search engines. Unfortunately, due to 开云体育 restrictions, you must be a member of GMF and logged in to access our Files and Photos sections. We expect members to post and act responsibly. Please respect your fellow members' time and attention: strive to be clear, concise and courteous. Our subject matter naturally includes matters of opinion; if you happen to disagree with another member please do so without being rude. Personal attacks are not allowed. Solicitations are off topic and will be deleted without comment. Listing your groups in your signature is perfectly acceptable, but just make sure there's also on-topic content in your post. Attachments are allowed and the judicious use of screen shots and other illustrations is encouraged! All messages sent to GMF are moderated, therefor there will be some delay before your message is posted. This is done to avoid malicious attachments, spam, off-topic messages, and messages from spoofed or compromised mail accounts. Despite these measures, be aware that the bad guys are clever so there's no guarantee that we'll always succeed; you are encouraged to be vigilant against any and all threats arriving via email. Your GMF moderators make no guarantees regarding the safety of emails arriving from this or any other 开云体育 address. We are always looking for suggestions from our members to make this group better for all. Feel free to address any questions, comments, or concerns directly to the group moderators via email to [email protected] GMF Mission Statement: We strive to be a resource of the highest quality for owners and moderators of 开云体育 groups. We allow as much information as possible from our group to be accessed by visitors! Would you like to be a better 开云体育 group owner and/or moderator? Would you like to see even more improvements in 开云体育 groups? We discuss our experiences as both group owners and moderators, share ideas for promoting and customizing the content areas, and offer various techniques for managing groups. To send a message to the members of this group, simply send email to [email protected] GMF is at times very busy. To substantially cut down on the email clutter see Subscription Options. In particular, Following Only, First Message Also, and Auto Follow Replies work well together to focus only on topics of interest to you. If you do not wish to belong to GroupManagersForum you may unsubscribe by using the link in the footer of this (or any) message, or by sending an email to [email protected] To see all of your group subscriptions, go to We thank you for your interest and for your contributions. Shal, Founder & Owner David, Owner Duane, Owner Bruce, Moderator Frances, Moderator Andy, Moderator Latest revision: 2024-08-01
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I can't filter the membership list to see all moderators
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I can't filter the membershpip list to see all moderators. I see the check boxes for the filters but the apply button is not there. I am in other groups and I don't have this problem. I am owner of both groups. Ther is another owner on the group I am referring to. Is it possible that he has me restricted?
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Technical new member question
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We have a Pending New Member with a gmail. com email address who has attempted to join a group I support as Moderator/Owner. They have not confirmed account and their activity log says Non confirmed member attempted to send message (multiple times)including they tried to respond to the group's Pending Member letter. I understand that messages are not delivered until those steps are completed. I am wondering if icloud relay proxy is impacting the groups.io new member messaging requirements process. I am not an Apple or a Safari user but my search shows it is a a privacy system within Safari that relays internet interactions to mask the user IP address . Will this potential member have to disable proxy to join to confirm email address to groups.io and to respond to member questions? Thanks for your help - this is beyond my technical expertise. This indicator is prominent on the pending member's page ICLOUD_RELAY_PROX Julie
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link to subscribe
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Is there a link I could put in an email /on a website that people could just click on to request to subscribe?
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Reply to group keeps including the original message
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Is there are setting so that the original message is automatically stripped from the reply? I suspect it might be because some people's email is set up to include original messages and I wont be able to change that so I am hoping groups.io lets me get it automated. Right no I am editing those messages to remove the original and it is not something I want to do. Thanks again for your help and the reminder to Read the Full Manual.
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Pending message stay in owner box even after they have been approved
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Thank you all for your help and patience with our questions. Our group just switched from only one reply option to all options available and its been a chaotic week as I learn the system and people respond to the change. All the messages that I approve and that are for "reply to group" are accumulating in my pending mail box. Can you direct me to the setting where I can have them go away once they are approved? Thanks.
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Can a member decide not to receive “reply to group” messages?
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We are testing a switch from offering reply to sender as the only reply option. Now we offer “reply to group and sender” as well as just sender or just group or just moderators. People who have set preferences for single emailsare complaining about way too many emails but don’t want to change to digest. Others are happy seeing all the responses. Is there a way to accommodate both sides? Thanks, Emily
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Massive Bouncing Members Conundrum
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G'day, My group lost 1,313 members this morning (AEDT) in one go, almost 31% of our members, through "Bouncing via system". I did a random check of the various members bounced, and they all had on thing in common, which was: Email Delivery set to, "Special Notices Only". Why the apparent sudden purge of this group of members? There was no other commonality I could find between them other than this preference setting. I did check the FAQs on Bouncing but, it doesn't cover this sort of event, and given the large number bounced in one hit, it doesn't make sense. NB: When we moved from Yahoo Groups, we went from just under 10K members, to around 6.5K, which we were expecting. Since then, we've lost (probably) close to two thirds of the remaining membership through Bouncing. It sort of feels like a slow death of many thousand cuts. Luke
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Daily Summary email delivery issue?
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Is there a delivery issue on Daily summaries today? I was alerted by a member of one group I moderate that they had no morning summary. There delivery history showed daily "accepted" every day but not today. Since I often operate from the web site I checked my own email and and realize there was no daily summary delivered to my email today. My email delivery shows no email delivery today nor do several members I checked including a primary fellow moderator. There was activity in our group yesterday so there should be a Daily Summary. Is there a groups.io systemwide issue? IF there is a place I should be checking to find alerts of system wide issues I am not sure where to look - actually that is a good thing because it means this happens so rarely I've never learned how to check for system issues. Both groups I moderate are free, grandfathered if that matters. Also I noted in the activity log that shortly after noon, 12:18 pm (ET) 11 members were suddenly bouncing if that might be related. Julie McMahon Moderator/Owner LBD Caring Spouses Life After Lewy
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posting visible to sender and email threads
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Basically a novice so any help very appreciated. Have 2 questions and wondering if there’s something I haven’t done as the group administrator. 1) When I post or reply to a posting, my message doesn’t show even though I’ve clicked on the preference to receive my copies. I only know for sure it went through if someone else replies. Not sure if this is to all group users or just me but is there something in Settings for this? 2) When some members reply to a message, the thread does not appear. Other times yes, but generally no. Why is the message, or thread, being replied to not show? Thank you! Carlos McDonald
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Migrating Old Yahoo Archived Mailing Lists Messages to Groups.IO
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Hello I'm new on this mailing list, so if I'm in the wrong place asking this, a pointer to the right place will be appreciated. I'm part of the OS/2 Warp community. Since Yahoo Groups went down, we started to use Groups.IO without any issue. We had a lot of useful material on the Yahoo Groups discussion that was backup. But this backup is just plain text and it is not simple for people to search on that discussions or even be indexed by Google. My question, is there any way, or experience on migrating this Yahoo Groups backup text backup into 开云体育? The idea will be to create a read only group to show the messages in an organized way and that can be searchable. If 开云体育 is not the ideal place to put this backups, is there any other suggestion? Regards Martin
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Group archive discovered to be publicly viewable
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After several years of assumed security, we have discovered that our group's archive settings allowed 'anyone to view'. We have corrected the settings, so the archive will be viewable only by group members going forward. It's good to know that ' When an archive is publicly viewable, email addresses are always hidden from nonmembers who view the archive' Nevertheless, it would be useful to know if/when the archive has been viewed by nonmembers. Is there a digital record of such views, and if so how can it be accessed? Many thanks. Barry
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Member difficulties
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I run a number of Groups and try to impress on all members to NOT use a work email address and ALWAYS set up a password to enable access to the account in the event of email problems. Do they listen? No. So periodically someone changes their email address, loses access to the old one and has never set up their password for access to their account. and so are locked out. Of course they can join again, but as a different member and hence not associated with previous activities. For a free/Basic Group, of course even the owner cannot fix this, but it wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility to pay for a month's upgrade to Premium in order to fix the problem, then revert to Basic. However hoping for help with a couple of questions about this:- ? Is it possible to upgrade to Premium for just one month and then revert to Basic? ? When reverting back to Basic, can I be sure we will retain the features we currently have as a pre 2000 Group? Hope someone can help with this. Ken G i l l e t t _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
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Question: +owner messages
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Hi, It's probably been asked and answered, but where do I find the +owner messages? I received the message in my “Outlook inbox”, but when I look in the groups.io online WEB page, the only place I find any reference to the post is under Admin->activity. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong; please point me in the right direction. Thanks, Ken S. “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.” ―Chuck Yeager
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Member Display Name Change?
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Hi Folks, I'm a group moderator, and I was asked by a new member to change her display name, by removing her last name. Went to the record, highlighted her last name and hit delete... nothing. Put the cursor at the end and hit backspace... nothing. Bucked it up to the account owner, and he couldn't do anything with it either. Oddly enough, I *did* receive two groups.io "group notification" emails that said the member's name *had* been changed... but as of just now, before submitting this, the display name in her account shows no change. I shot her an email outlining the steps needed to make the change herself, but it leaves me with a question: why was I (and the group owner) unable to make this change? In checking the Group Owner's manual, it clearly says in section 11.2, third bullet down, "Owners and moderators can edit the Display Name field in individual members’ records (but be aware that members can change their own display names as mentioned above)." Either that's not completely correct, something has been changed and the manual hasn't caught up yet, or we're both doing something wrong. I never bothered to click the "Confirm" button at the bottom of the page, since I couldn't do anything to make the last name letters go away; there was no visible edit TO confirm. Is this where I went wrong in failing to bring about the requested change? Thanks for any clarification you can provide! Karl
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Merge messages to an account
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Following the transfer of a rather old Yahoo group to 开云体育, I find myself with messages that are not linked to the user's account. How can I associate these messages with an account? Examples /g/TheSeaofClaws/member/655592 but lot of message with X-Yahoo-Alias or X-Yahoo-Profile don't be rattached X-Yahoo-Alias: manowarplayer X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=7612106; email=no X-Yahoo-Profile: manowarplayer
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