Good point. Although initially, a service that utilises private URLs might be sufficient. It depends heavily on the nature of the groups though.

Chris, That depends strongly on the nature of the group and its members. In many cases access control is a key component of using the feature - just as with the message archives. People don't

I think when deciding what features to add that it might be worth considering inconvenient it will be for people to emulate those features if you don't provide them. For most of those features, the

That does seem like a common use case. If the workflow around this could be simplified, then it could be group for advice groups.

My son who boycotts our family Yahoogroups suggests this: He would like to be able to set up preferences so that he receives the first post in any thread to the groups he subscribes to - automatically

Thanks Shal. That might work for us as long as it was searchable. We do have our current links broken down into subfolders by category. Trish

Trish, Fundamentally Wiki pages are rich text pages which can edited by site users. In the case of a group, that would mean the group members (if permitted). So, members could write descriptions and

Ronaldo, Oh, that's an interesting thought. Sort-of a temporary membership, subscribed only to that person's own thread. That could revolutionize how some help and advice groups operate. Even

Ronaldo, If the addressee's email service follows RFC3834 it would be possible to distinguish an auto response from a manual one. In particular there is an Auto-Submitted field which the responder

whofanvidme, Having each link entry consist of a description text plus an expandable list of links is not a bad idea. It neatly handles the case of a few related links without having to go to the

The requirements in relation to structuring links will vary enormously from one group to another. I would suggest simple links with associated (limited) explanatory text, but with the addition of an

This feature would make groups consultable. Of course messages from non-member should always be moderated. Ideally, the entire thread that results should be sent to the person who started it (unless

I do agree that email-commands are vital and practical, but because of the existence of (those darned) auto-responders we shouldn't make it TOO easy. Could you make it so that people would need a

Here's my idea for an improved links section layout. I was going to post it to the Yahoo! suggestion board, but I suspect it would gain more traction here. Back when Yahoo! Groups was created, people

I think the use of tags would be excellent, especially if they are searchable by search engines, which would in itself give publicity to Groups.io every time someone searched for a word used as a

Mark, I'll agree with this one on top. Reminders are useful in most of my types of groups. Assuming the existence of general Files storage (not on your list), if a reminder can have attached files

Mark, Without moderation I'd agree. But my Yahoo Groups that operate this way in fact receive very few non-member attempted postings (sometimes months between them), either spam or valid. In Yahoo's

Hi Mark, The top priorities for my groups are Scheduled Files and a Links Library. Thanks, Linda

Hi Mark, Here's a rundown of our needs. My groups are animal rescue related, so for our purposes we need links, files and spreadsheets. We are storing specific links to articles/blogs/etc related to

I like the reroute-to-owner idea. Then at that point give the owner the opportunity to flag them as spam. I'm all for avoiding those festering pits. Trish