okay thank you sorry that I don't understand most of the technical stuff, Cherrill

Of course. There will never be a situation where you can't control who's in your group and what gets sent to it. Thanks, Mark

is this a feature I can turn off the moment its implemented, because I don't want people who are not members to send any emails to my group. If they want to be a member, they should join the proper

Cherrill, If I add this feature, it will be something you can turn on or off. Here's how it would work (if turned on for your group): A non-member sends a message to your group It looks like a pending

Mark, Except in the case of your address being spoofed, I think it would be fair to conclude that your message itself constitutes opting-in for replies to that message. Otherwise what was the

I have a question about this because I am not sure I understand. I own a group here so does this mean that someone who isn't a member of my group can send an email to my group via instant

I like instant subscriptions. Here's a possible hitch I've come up with. If you are not a Groups.io user at all, and send a message to a group and are instantly subscribed, you've effectively bypassed

Mark, Heh. Books full of fiddly bits. Yes, I would definitely want them listed (and of course activity logged). Probably in the main Members list so I don't have to remember to check for them

I realized after I went to bed last night that I was wrong.. It does not currently work close to what your son wants. If set to receive the first message only and on digest, those messages will go to

I really like this idea. I don't think it'll be difficult, because it's just like a user who is set to replies only. Let me spec something up. It'll be a nice break from working on the calendar/event

I was not aware of the Auto-Submitted header. I'll add code to drop any message received containing that field set to either 'auto-generated' or 'auto-replied'. Back in the ONElist days, I hard-coded

Hi Frances, It almost exactly works like that right now. When your subscription is set to receive only the first message in a thread, if you later click the follow thread link for that thread, any/all

Chris, Like Flickr's Guest Pass? Yes, that could work. Then the trick would be to let the "integration" display the referenced photo(s) in a natural way for the members, rather than them having to

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