Jennifer and all,

I don't know the answer to your question, but am going to take it in another direction. I am pasting here what came through in the email version of your message. I've been having this problem with certain posters in my group but thought it had to do with my settings ("force HTML" or some other setting) and was getting my ducks lined up to send a cogent bug report to Mark. But now I see it happening here, too. So here is what I just received in email, copied and pasted. The problem, as Shal explained in my conversation on GMF about this, is that spaces are being replaced by "Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex", aka U+00C2:

Earlier today I was moderating a message on one of my groups and attempted to add a signature block as required by that group’s ground rules.  I went to the Message archive online and found a signature block on a message previously sent by this member (from 2011).  It was in the following order, each item on a different line:   (a) Member name; (b) Professional role, (c) Organization, (d) Location, (e) web address – url.   BUT, when I pasted it into the current message, the order was instantly and entirely reversed:  e,d,c,b,a.   Last time it happened, I had copied the signature block from an email sitting in my Outlook folder on my laptop.  This time I was “in†Groups.io online. 

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author. Especially the fishy ones.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu

It's now possible to lock or moderate a topic after a certain number of days. It would be nice if we could also choose to do those after x number of posts.

It's currently impractical to rename or split a topic, because people keep responding to both topics by email and think they're staying in the same conversation, which used to cause frequent chaos in my group. So I simply don't rename or split threads any more. But if an extremely long topic could be automatically locked, that would often be very helpful, and then a new topic could be started.

Of course, any topic can be locked by hand; but an a priori announcement informing members that they are locked automatically after a certain number of posts would avoid having to explain it each time.
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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author. Especially the fishy ones.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu

Changes to the site this week:

• INTERNAL: Finished work on recurring billing system.
• NEW: Pending subscriptions will be deleted after 14 days, same as pending messages. This is not turned on yet.
• BUGFIX: Message-IDs for poll and chat notifications were missing <>s.
• BUGFIX: When logged out and looking at the expanded message view, hashtags were not colored correctly.
• BUGFIX: In activity log view, if you hit the search button twice, the actions would disappear.
• BUGFIX: Fix for +summary email command.
• NEW: New 'All Activity' view in Activity log.
• CHANGE: Alphabetized actions dropdown in the group member activity history page.
• BUGFIX: When viewing member activity history, clicking Search with 'All Activities' would not search all activities.
• BUGFIX: When replying to a message on the web, the buttons weren't correct for groups with ReplyTo set to Group & Sender.
• BUGFIX: If referencing an enterprise group page from a subdomain.groups.io domain, force redirect to proper domain.
• CHANGE: Don't allow uploading of images to the Files area.
• CHANGE: Added new high res version of the Groups.io logo for retina screens.
• BUGFIX: Display of enterprise group subscriptions on the home page while viewing from groups.io was missing their domains.
• BUGFIX: In the wiki image upload box, clear previous images that were uploaded.
• INTERNAL: Reorganized some of the images used with enterprise groups.
• BUGFIX: Fix lock timeout issue with updating repeating calendar events.
• CHANGE: Set focus on input when search modal boxes are opened.

Have a good weekend everybody.

Mark

I realize that Groups.io is "a big world" and that the following is a non-trivial request, but it works so well on BleepingComputer (BC) that I can see the general utility of this function here.

Very often a given individual sends/posts a message to a group where it's really "not appropriate" and, as a result, will not likely get the attention it deserves and would get if it were appropriately placed.

Very often the owner/moderator of the group where something lands actually knows where it might be better placed.  When that's the case on BC a moderator can move that message to the appropriate group and a "forwarding place holder" is left in the original location that directly shoots anyone using the web interface to the new location.

This is complicated here because there are so many groups with so many owners and there would need to be some request/permission granting mechanism for a move along with the complications related to the e-mail interface.  How one would get an email stream to "redirect" if a topic is moved would be challenging, to say the least.

Still, it's worth thinking about even if for the distant future.
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Brian

       Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

             ~ Winston Churchill