Thank you Lena. I deleted the HTML promote from my website and the bot memberships have completed dried up! David

I'll take a look, thanks. OK, thanks for that confirmation. Exactly - we wouldn't worry if anyone used "#1 choice" for example, as it would be a manual creation but with our setting it wouldn't

Carol, There's a relevant conversation currently in GroupManagersForum, specifically seeking viewpoints on the use of hashtags in groups: https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/4845745 (public

It's interesting you raise this. We felt they would serve no useful purpose and likely to be misused, so in our group we took the decision to put the setting for hashtags to 'moderators create only'

I've just eliminated almost all of the hashtags in my group because of rampant misuse, confusion, etc., and because they were serving no useful purpose in my group. I kept a couple of them, for use by

It comes from the group owner address and all they need to do is reply to it. Their reply will go to all moderators who are set to receive "messages from subscribers." -- J Messages are the sole

Just a simple question — When this message is sent out, who does it come from? I ask so that I can get the wording correct. Should the prospective member simply reply to the message or does it need

Thank you Lena, I have removed the Promote HTML from the external web site. And I was not aware that I could configure to automatically send a notice to pending

That query can be sent automaticallly: Settings - Member Notices - New Notice - Notice Type: Pending Subscription, check Active Message I think that the bot membership requests are via

Changes to the site this week: BUGFIX: Sometimes lines were cut in half when using the sticky wiki function. Should be fixed now. BUGFIX: Calendar events that span multiple months would not be

Hi Jennifer, I wish I could take credit for it, but I haven't yet been able to fix the problem. Other people are experiencing it as well, you can see a bug report about it here:

Uh, I don't think we're talking the same thing. As I understand it, I can email poll results to poll responders while the poll is open. That I get. What I am looking for is a way to email me, as the

That's odd. As far as I remember, yahoogroups gives you the choice to select where you want the message sent once the poll closes: - send result to the group - send results to the creator of the

Thank you, Mark, for finding and fixing this problem. Or at least it worked perfectly today. My most frequent editing change (as a very active moderator) is to add signature blocks (name,

I cull the bot membership requests by send each requester a query for additional information. The query is cryptic and would only be understood by a valid human request for membership. It would

Erik, No, but it has been on my wish-list for a while: https://groups.io/g/beta/message/8662 Search the beta archives for "permalink" to find more mentions of the idea. "Permalink" is a name given

Hi Ginny, Right now, closing a poll doesn't generate any emails. I suppose you could set the poll to not show results until the poll is closed, and instead of closing the poll at the end, you could

Welcome home - hope that you had a great time and got some r&r. Ginny

Not that I can think of (certainly nothing in the past week and a half). Please have them contact support@groups.io if they're still having problems, and I'll be able to look into it. Thanks, Mark

Hello all and apologies if asking something which has been already covered. Tried to search but did not find exactly answer to this. When a member uploads a photo or file to respective sections, is