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Re: Photos in Email are Resized... Despite Setting??

bowman46118@... (Bruce Bowman) — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:15:01 -0700

On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 05:12 PM, Richard Karash wrote:

I have a mystery. Photos in emails to our group are being resized to 640 pixels, despite our setting to “Resize to 2048 pixels.��

Embedded images are always resized to 640 px in the long dimension. If you don't want that to happen, you have to attach them.

Regards,

Bruce

Photos in Email are Resized... Despite Setting??

Richard@... (Richard Karash) — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:12:37 -0700

Fellow Groupers -

I have a mystery. Photos in emails to our group are being resized to 640 pixels, despite our setting to “Resize to 2048 pixels.�� (I’m only interested in email deliveries, most all our subscribers use the group through email, not the web)

Here’s that panel in my settings (screenshot):

Our text: Sending photos of 2000 pixels and 1340 pixels get resized to 640.

Any ideas?

-=- Rick

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Re: Is there a way to set GLOBAL settings or CHANGE the settings for multiple sub-roups at the same time?

christos@... (Christos Psarras) — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:19:22 -0700

On 2025-04-03 14:18, Peter Nesbitt via groups.io wrote:

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The issue is that now I must manually go to each sub-group and make all of those unique changes for each individual sub-group.

I assume you're making those changes in the subgroup's Settings page***, so to make this a bit less tedious, use a URL trick. The URL will be in this format, https://maingroupname.groups.io/g/subgroupname/settings, so after making whatever changes in the settings for the first subgroup and clicking on Update, don't navigate anywhere but instead substitute the current subgroup in the URL with the name of the next subgroup and press Enter. That will save you the time and mouse clicks to navigate to the next subgroup's settings page since it will take you there directly.

*** but the same URL trick can be used in other pages as well, like .../hashtags for example.

You could go even further if you find yourself doing this often until group things/settings/etc get finalized more-or-less, you may want to create temporary bookmarks for now to save you changing the subgroupname in the URL.

You could also create a #suggestion in the beta group, that's where we interact with the site developers.

Cheers,
Christos

Re: Is there a way to set GLOBAL settings or CHANGE the settings for multiple sub-roups at the same time?

bowman46118@... (Bruce Bowman) — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:40:05 -0700

On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 02:59 PM, Peter Nesbitt wrote:

I've seen this elsewhere in the past as GLOBAL settings, or an option to SET SETTINGS and then APPLY TO ALL or APPLY TO SELECTED.

There is currently no way to do this with [sub]group settings.

Regards,

Bruce

Is there a way to set GLOBAL settings or CHANGE the settings for multiple sub-roups at the same time?

peter_nesbitt@... (Peter Nesbitt) — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:59:17 -0700

I have our main group up and running and have created a number of sub-groups for teams and unique situations. It seems that the more I learn about �� and understand the features, I want to go back and change settings for some of my groups, but not all.

The issue is that now I must manually go to each sub-group and make all of those unique changes for each individual sub-group.

I've seen this elsewhere in the past as GLOBAL settings, or an option to SET SETTINGS and then APPLY TO ALL or APPLY TO SELECTED.

Any help wold be appreciated �� this is a feature-rich environment.

Peter

Re: Threads splitting in email box

bowman46118@... (Bruce Bowman) — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:20:12 -0700

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 04:20 PM, Sydney Osborne wrote:

It also appears that if one tries to reply to an email within the thread it splits into another conversation for all of us.

Peculiar, but not too surprising. To the best of my knowledge - as Malcolm inferred - there is no internet standard for "conversations." In GMail, all you can do is turn them on and off, and Yahoo Mail seems to be the same (https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN36680.html).

Such functions operate best within a corporate intranet environment, where everyone has to use the same mail client. Since "topics" within groups .io are behaving as expected, it remains your best fallback option.

Good luck,

Bruce

Re: a redundant site

txpigeon@... (Duane) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:12:05 -0700

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 01:53 PM, Paul Bicknell wrote:

is there a way i can take over the sight

I don't know of a way you can do that (easily). It would be much simpler to just start a group with a similar name that folks, like you, could find.

Duane

The �� Help Center includes the Owners Manual and Members Manual.
They can be browsed online or downloaded as PDF files.

Re: Adding Zoom link to calendar

txpigeon@... (Duane) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:10:19 -0700

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM, <pinedejuan@...> wrote:

I am trying to add a Zoom link to calendar and the response says that it is not supported

To the best of my knowledge, the Zoom integration was removed about a year ago. If/when this site is upgraded to Bootstrap 5, the integration should be re-enabled.

Duane

The �� Help Center includes the Owners Manual and Members Manual.
They can be browsed online or downloaded as PDF files.

Re: Threads splitting in email box

mieren47@... (Sydney Osborne) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:20:19 -0700

The person who seems to be inadvertently creating the splits most often -- and swears he isn't changing anything in the reply or subject line areas -- is using yahoo from their online platform.

The other two folks, including me, are using gmail.

It also appears that if one tries to reply to an email within the thread it splits into another conversation for all of us.

Syd

a redundant site

paul@... (Paul Bicknell) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:53:51 -0700

Hi all sorry i do not post often on this Group as i am a member of a lot of IO groups

but i have recently joined a group that has 12 members but has only ever had 2 postings that is one when the group was set up about 5 years ago

and the one i sent when i joined about 2 weeks ago someone must have approved my membership but unfortunately when emailing the owner

I get no replies is there a way i can take over the sight as it appears to be a redundant site

Regards Paul

Re: Adding Zoom link to calendar

stephen@... (Stephen W9SK) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:08:26 -0700

I simply added the meeting link with other standard Zoom info to the description for the Calendar event, and it works. Since changed to Teams, but same thing. I assume you have Premium.

Stephen

Adding Zoom link to calendar

pinedejuan@... — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:28:56 -0700

Hi I am trying to add a Zoom link to calendar and the response says that it is not supported.

How can I add it to Description on meeting date on Calendar so it's there for my group to click on it?

Thank you.

Re: Threads splitting in email box

bowman46118@... (Bruce Bowman) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:32:37 -0700

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM, Sydney Osborne wrote:

With some regularity, our email threads act as though they are split. For example, we had a thread about tile in our group. It's got 17 replies and if I log into our groups.io dashboard, it's all one thread.

�� threads incoming emails (i.e.: inserts them into existing topics) using the algorithm found at /helpcenter/manual/generalinfo/general/topic_threading_algorithm.htm

Replies posted online are unequivocally threaded based on what message was displayed when the Reply button was clicked.

But for the several people on the thread, it has now split in our email and is acting like 3 different threads.

Anyone know what might be causing this and how to avoid / fix it?

Some email clients group messages into "conversations," and I assume that's what you're talking about? Very likely, they use some other algorithm. For Outlook, I found this discussion. I suspect other clients may do it differently. It would be helpful to know what email client these people may be using.

Regards,

Bruce

P.S. If something else is going on please provide a more complete explanation.

Re: Threads splitting in email box

malcolm.austen@... (Malcolm Austen) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:24:18 -0700

As the primary cause is that many different email programs have decided that "they know best" there really is no solution.

Sometimes people manage to reply to a message without including the header that indicates that it is a reply.
Sometimes people use their "reply" button but change the subject and the content thus hijacking a thread.
Some email programs ignore the headers and treat any change of the subject line as a change of thread.
...

Sorry, you must have to live with what your chosen mail program does! (In combination with what others do with theirs!)

best, Malcolm.

Threads splitting in email box

mieren47@... (Sydney Osborne) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:09:20 -0700

Hi All,
With some regularity, our email threads act as though they are split. For example, we had a thread about tile in our group. It's got 17 replies and if I log into our groups.io dashboard, it's all one thread.
But for the several people on the thread, it has now split in our email and is acting like 3 different threads.

Anyone know what might be causing this and how to avoid / fix it?

Thanks,
Sydney

Re: Group name change

andy_wedge@... (Andy Wedge) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:12:46 -0700

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 06:56 AM, Monica Z wrote:

Is there a way to change a group name easily without interfering with any of the pages in the group?

In a word. No. The implications of renaming an established group should be fully understood before doing so. The GMF Wiki gives details as does the Owners Manual.

Regards

Andy

Group name change

cfsbayarea@... (Monica) — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:56:50 -0700

hello,

i would like to change the name of our group. It seems that doing so causes a lot of issues and many pages no longer open up.

Is there a way to change a group name easily without interfering with any of the pages in the group?

Re: Is there a reason that the Group_Help archive, and even the Group_Help Homepage, is not visible unless you are already a member?

paul@... (Paul Bicknell) — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:31:40 -0700

Dear sir I can only suggest you contact a member of the group to put thing right assuming you are an active member then you will have personal emails between your sylph and other members alternatively re register as a new member using a different email address after a year try to find out who you upset

For or your information you might consider the following

I have each posting sent to my email address for each site I am a member off that is why I have an alternative email address for my Groups IO accounts

But the archives are not Public they are the property of the sight and its members

Regards ~Paul

Re: Is there a reason that the Group_Help archive, and even the Group_Help Homepage, is not visible unless you are already a member?

marrie12@... (Sarah k Alawami) — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:58:30 -0700

In my case, I was banned due to a remark I made. One of the moderators, who seemed to hold a personal bias, banned me without the owner's knowledge. I only discovered this when I attempted to access the group for information and was denied entry. This experience is why I suggest that, at a minimum, members should have access to public archives.

Thanks.

Thanks and happy Friday.

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On 3/28/2025 7:20 AM, Bruce Bowman via groups.io wrote:

Re: Is there a reason that the Group_Help archive, and even the Group_Help Homepage, is not visible unless you are already a member?

bowman46118@... (Bruce Bowman) — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 07:20:38 -0700

It seems that someone who's been banned from a group will be unhappy with how the process worked. Pretty much by definition.

Regards,

Bruce