Hi Chris, Victoria and Susanne, Great feedback. My first pass at categories was just that and I figured 20 entries was a good starting point. I'll update my list with all of the feedback and post a

Adopting the role of Devil's Advocate for a minute... or several. Firstly although it is not a topic that I would necessarily need to search for, where would Animal Health, Welfare,& Rescue fit into

Susanne, We are talking about improving users' ability to search for and find groups that are relevant to their interests, right? And to do that by allowing group owners to characterize their

We are talking about improving users' ability to search forand find groups that are relevant to their interests, right? And todo that by allowing group owners to characterize their groups to makethem

After merge I have a date bug. Message are not order by number https://groups.io/g/TheSeaofClaws/topic/5545134#4129

Hi Toby, The travel group (1A-Travelzine) is for both pleasure and business. Members plan their vacation trips as well as try to make the most of their personal time when they are away on business

Dewey and LCC are systems for putting things in one place on a shelf. For this, we need subject headings, not a classification/shelflisting system. LCSH is the subject heading system for Library of

Library of Congress Classifications. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification A General Works B Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion C Auxiliary Sciences of History D

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes Dewey Decimal Top Level Categories: 000 – Computer science, information & general works 100 – Philosophy and psychology

One problematic use still exists - on our group homepage it uses the term archive, as in Archives are visible to subscribers only. Mark, can you add "message" to that too? Another question about

Hi Toby, RE: The question, do we have categories or not? There will likely be some owners that don’t like or want to categorize their group. That is the reason I included the “Other and none

All - the category I suggest does not define what the group discusses, only an idea of the part of the cosmos that the members of the group align themselves with that leads them to have these

Hi John, If there is just a single level of broad categories maybe allowing the owner to select more than one would address the concern. With a small number of categories they would all be easily

I'm warming to the idea of tags. We get his this on FB a lot, which also has nested categories. We put out model group under Hobby, and someone will suggest we change to Railroad, then someone else

Hi Sharon, I agree on not liking Yahoo’s multilevel heirachy, it is confusing and too much duplication at the lower level. That is why I suggested a short, broad, and single level of categories.

When a sub group is added to mygroup@groups.io, then the main group will be changed to main@mygroup.groups.io (or as chosen) with mygroup@groups.io established as an alias. If however the sub group

I would suggest keywords. Maybe a narrow list of keywords. Will the search search descriptions? I found Yahoo’s categories impossible and limiting— maybe it was just having to manipulate the

Travel or Travel & Lifestyle or Travel & Leisure should be a top level category, not buried in Recreation & Sports. Medical, Health, Wellness is better for rare disease support groups. Linda

For search purposes I find broad categories a good idea. At the moment it´s only possible to search alphabetically or by tag or name – if you know it. Victoria . Yahoo has 17 very broad

If the Dewey system were used all Mark would need to do to implement it would be to add a field to the public list of groups to hold the code, and then sort on it, leaving group owners/moderators to