Hi All, I appreciate all the discussion about moderators assisting members; I don't know what the right answer is yet in regards to changing email or adding aliases. But it seems like changing the

Ronaldo, I don't think this is true unless something has happened that I don't know about or there are other options that I did not know about. I am an owner of a couple of groups and moderator of

Changes to the site today: Behind the scene improvements to the Yahoo Easy Group transfer process Found and fixed a race condition in the email sending code that may have led to duplicate

Hi All, Over the past few weeks I had gotten a couple reports about people receiving duplicate emails. I just fixed a small race condition in the email sending code, that in some specific instances,

As far as I know, in yahoogroups a moderator can change any setting from any member. I don't recall any story of that being a problem. This doesn't include adding a new email-adress, but I think

Or worse, if someone else unsubscribes them. My personal opinion is that such a link take the person to the membership options for the group where "leave group" is a clear option - and a secondary

Shal - I really appreciate your input on this. This isn't often needed, but when it is, it's the only way, short of going to where the member is, to help them. As you noted, it's the equivalent risk

Dano, Yeah, no kidding. In Yahoo Groups the "Alternate Posting Address" was treated as an alias for the member's true address. In particular, without looking at the message header one couldn't tell

Mark, In one of my Yahoo Groups I found the Digest numbers a handy way to check for email bouncing, greylisting, or blackholing. When I saw a gap in the digest numbers of a particularly busy group

Hi Mark, I would think that an owner (or moderator with permission) should be able to make all of the changes, including email address and name for a particular subscription. In the case of the

Hmm. You're probably right. There has to be some way to secure the member's membership while still allowing the moderator to 'fix' the member's account settings when the member is not competent to

not to all the moderators . I would still ask the member for an email stating it was OK and what changes would be made or something like that. Maybe I'm overly careful, but want all bases covered. I

I like the idea of permission only being given to an owner/moderator and not to all the moderators . I would still ask the member for an email stating it was OK and what changes would be made or

Judy, you said it better than I can. But I understand Mark's concerns too. That's why it is imperative that the member make the first active move, although it needs to be something simple. And I

Terry, the reason this suggestion was made was to allow the owner/mod access to change some things because a lot of these members don't know how to do it and if they try they are making a mess out of

Thanks Mark, then I say leave it as is. Others may feel differently about it, but now that I understand about the numbering system and why it differs, I say leave it as is. Judy F. SW Florida -

One way to deal with it is to have the user set a temporary password and email that password to the moderator who is going to set up his account. After the account is setup to the member's

Judy, I didn't think your question was dumb and I apologize if it sounded that way. With the various subscription options, each member of a group might get different messages sent to them (either

I understand the concerns and need for something like this. Right now you can set the subscription options (email delivery and message selection) for your members. But you can't set the person's name

Here are the steps to add (or change) the Full Name on their account: Log in Click on their name at the upper right of the page in the black header bar Select Profile from the dropdown box (opens new