Haha.;) Sent from my iPhone -- 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

J, Dear groups whose guidelines DO contain private information, Please take the private information out of your Guidelines. Yours sincerely, Shal Can't have been. Guidelines have only existed

The same way they always didL join the group, be sent a copy of the group guidelines (please remember: these used to be sent in private emails, to members only) and find out, and leave if it doesn't

I am with Shal on this one. For prospective members to a restricted group it would be good to be able to read a set of the guidelines on-line (or be sent them). Otherwise how do they know what they

And now Thursday morning, long time yet... Dave http://davesergeant.com

I always struggle trying to work out what your times are in ours. I think it is 5am-6am UK time Wednesday morning so hopefully most of us will still be in the land of nod. But thanks for the

"Emails sent during this time will be queued and sent when the site is back up." -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't,

No worries. I'm still guessing that email will still be ok and that if someone happens to send a message to my list during the down time it will still get through? I'm guessing yet, but it never hurts

...or make them public iff the group has public archives. Something like that. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't,

Why not make them public for public (unrestricted) groups and private for private (restricted) groups? -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I wish I could

I thought we'd been over all this already. J -- 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

I'm responding to these in order. One particular thing in our group was the signature below the guidelines, consisting of the entire administrative team for my group. That information should not be

Tell that to the groups whose guidelines DO contain private information and have been relying on that. If it's going to be public, just let me know and I'll remove the private info. Now that it's

That's a good point. J, what are the reasons you'd like the guidelines to be private? Thanks, Mark

Mark, I disagree with this change. It makes it difficult for a group with Restricted membership to let prospective members know what the rules will be if they join the group. I don't want to make

Dinner takes precedence! :-) -- 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

Oops. I made a scheduling error. The downtime will be Wednesday, September 27, 2017, not tomorrow as first announced. I forgot that I had a previously scheduled dinner tomorrow night. Thanks, Mark

Up to you whether to tell your group or not, of course. Nothing will change with the service, so your users don't have to do anything. Cheers, Mark

Great, thanks! I would still (mildly) lobby for a checkbox so that the guidelines can "undergo maintenance" once in awhile. But no biggie.:) -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author,

Hi All, I have changed the group guidelines to only be visible to subscribers. I have not added an active checkbox, because it doesn't seem to me that guidelines are something you would turn on and