Forget it for tonight.  I've just scanned a relevant part of that GDPR and it seems to go in circles.
Another day; another viewpoint.  thanks for asking,
bob
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Bob Bellizzi
FuchsFriends@groups.io online  support  group for corneal dystrophy patients & caregivers
The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation 

I've wiped her except for her email address as one who left and 6 activity notes w/her email address in them.
I'm pretty sure that an email address is personal but I don't think even a group owner can delete that record.

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Bob Bellizzi
FuchsFriends@groups.io online  support  group for corneal dystrophy patients & caregivers
The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation 

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

Mark I received an unsubscribe today from a UK person who requested me to remove all personal information per the UK GDPR.
Luckily, she unsubscribed prior to any posting.
But after removing her from a welcome message I am still stuck with a Past Members' record.
Technically, the Past Member Record should be purged.
Do you know if it's safe to just leave it or does a change have to be made to the system to handle this.
Bob
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Bob Bellizzi
FuchsFriends@groups.io online  support  group for corneal dystrophy patients & caregivers
The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation 

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 04:04 PM, Al wrote:

I usually don't want to see members who have accepted invites on the Invites page

To minimize the annoyance factor, you could sort on Status to get the types together and ignore the Accepted section.

Duane

I've been trying to see if there's a way to do this, but so far, it  doesn't seem that there is.

The "Download" feature on the Member page allows for loading all members in a single text file, which is very handy for cross-referencing with other lists.  One problem is that this doesn't include invited members to the group that have not yet accepted an invite. Of course, this is by design, but it would be nice to have a way to export this information as well. This helps to answer the question: is a member either part of this group or has received an invite to it in the past?

The best I've been able to do is tweak the URL to show me all of the invited members on a single page, since the default pagination is really annoying (no GUI option to change this), but a text-based format that could be easily parsed would be nice.

Additionally, filter capabilities for "Invited Members", similar to those of "Members", would be very helpful. For instance, I usually don't want to see members who have accepted invites on the Invites page, since that just adds noise. A way to show only sent and sent/expired would be helpful.

Thanks for the consideration!

Al

LOL, it got hidden in the collapsed quoted text as I didn't reformat it...

>>> J_Catlady via groups.io wrote:
>>> member xyz@abc

>>> Christos Psarras <christos@...> wrote:
>>> member abc@xyz

No, I don’t. Just trying to be helpful, actually.

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

You just have to be different, don't you? :)

B. “Pending member xyz@abc expired and was deleted.”

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

So to recap, the suggestion is:

For non-claimed pending members who expire after 14 days without being approved and get auto-removed from the pending members queue:

A. Change the reason text in their record entry in the past member list from "Removed" to "Expired"

B. Add an activity log entry which indicates their removal/rejection from the pending queue due the 14-day expiration and not being approved during that time frame. Maybe "Pending member abc@... was automatically rejected/declined due to pending membership time limit expiration, via system" or something along these lines. 

Part B would necessitate a new category added though, "Expired pending membership", "Pending member expired", or something like that, as the only existing category it could possibly go under would be "Rejected Member" but then it wouldn't quite jive with "Expired" in A above.

Cheers,
Christos

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

The expired member is described as "removed" in the past members list.

Cheers,
Christos

And did you say this is currently described in some log as “removed”? I think that should be changed to “expired.” Wasn’t sure whether you were talking hypothetically or factually and I have no examples to check in my group.

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 07:20 PM, J_Catlady wrote:

I would make the entry in the past members list say "expired"

Good call.  My original thought was rejected as in rejected (by the system) but expired is better, self-explanatory.

Cheers,
Christos

On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 04:12 PM, Christos Psarras wrote:

Don't you think there should be a log entry indicating the member was auto-rejected due to time limit expiration

I think there should be. I would make the entry in the past members list say "expired" - not "removed." Currently, rejected members say "rejected" in the Past Members list.
 
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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

I'm not quite sure if this is a bug/omission, or it's by design, in which case I'd suggest to add something about it to the activity log.

I had someone in a group apply over 14 days ago.  They weren't claimed, and they never answered the pending notice requests (unrelated to the recent spammers BTW), all the time in between still showing NC.  Yesterday or today, not sure (pun intended) they were unceremoniously gone as expected.  But there is no log entry that says so, all there is in the log is the applied entry and the two entries for my pending notice sending.

Don't you think there should be a log entry indicating the member was auto-rejected due to time limit expiration or whatever the reason would be, so the "case circle" would be closed?  Right now, unless if someone knows what happened, they are left wondering especially if they have a free group with no past members list capability.  In a premium group one can see that person listed as a past member, but the reason stated is "removed"***, kind of implying an admin removed them, but when they click on that reason link to get the log entries, there is no indication in there why they were removed or by whom.  To an untrained/not as knowledgeable mod this "lack of closure" can look a bit confusing.

*** that reason also seems to me to not be quite the right one, I think it should be rejected.

Cheers,
Christos

Changes to the site this week:

October 8, 2021:

• DOCS: Updates from Nina.
• BUGFIX: More work to eliminate bogus draft saving error messages. Discussion
• CHANGE: Removed the Remove option from the Banned Members page, as it didn't make sense/was mostly a duplicate of the Unban option. Discussion
• CHANGE: Unbanning someone no longer generates a past member record. Discussion

October 7, 2021:

• CHANGE: Changed Recent Bounces to Bounces in the Account sidebar. In the Email Delivery History page as well as the account Bounces page, changed Recent Bounces to Bounces.
• BUGFIX: When making a change or adding a new group member notice, and an existing member notice of the same type does not have a name set, the update would silently fail. Discussion

October 6, 2021:

• BUGFIX: Attachments with non-ascii characters in their names would fail to download. Discussion
• BUGFIX: Post Status: Override: not moderated should override any moderated hashtags. Discussion

October 5, 2021:

• BUGFIX: Better handling on small screens of non-breaking topic summaries. Discussion
• BUGFIX: For photos with spaces in the name, properly encode the Download URL so that the spaces are intact. Discussion
• BUGFIX: The Subgroup Category dropdown in the group settings page was not working. Discussion

The next #changelog will be sent on Friday, October 15th.

Take care everyone.

Mark

This is just my opinion, but if a log entry is recorded, the message is by definition not private.
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David Bryant
Canyon Lake, Texas
https://t-vog.groups.io/g/main    https://davidcbryant.net

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 05:32 PM, Andy wrote:

If someone sends a private reply, it seems the act of sending the message is not logged in the Activity Log.

I'm wondering (a) if my understanding is correct, and (b) if it seems right that groups.io doesn't log it.

Private responses to group emails never pass through groups.io and therefore cannot be intercepted and logged. It seems appropriate -- or at least consistent -- that private messages sent via the groups.io web interface be treated the same way. Having said that, I would not object to having them appear in the log; if that's what everyone wants to do.

Regards,
Bruce