I just Direct Added a block of subscribers from our old system, and received several emails from distressed people saying, e.g. "I have no idea what my password is and didn’t see this until the 120

And the additional confirmation message adds another order of magnitude to the issue. It’s bad enough with just the pending questionnaire issues, but that seems like a necessary evil. The NC makes

I agree entirely with that... the only problem is that it is quite common to get no response to the Pending Subscription message; even a couple of reminders can fail to get a response. Chris

Exactly! I've complained about the text of the confirmation email many times before. It says to click to "complete your membership." In the case of a restricted group with a questionnaire, it does not

The text of the Groups.io Confirmation message leads many applicants to believe they only need to respond to 1 email. | Hello, | | Thank you for your interest in Groups.io and the group

Not saying anything is needed immediately. Nothing is needed immediately. But something is needed. We are just stressed to the max around here with the group being organized around the pandemic,

Well, as you mentioned earlier, just send them an invitation and all is settled. No change needed immediately, so further thought could go into which, if any, should be made. Maybe add information

I am remembering the bad old days before I made my main group a premium group, and all the hassles we had with NC members. It's happening all over again - having to post huge warnings on the home page

[Mod note: One way to solve this is to put everyone on digest and then for really important messages, send them out as special notices. I approved this message as a start to a discussion as to whether

The system doesn't have to keep track of whether or not a member returned a questionnaire. I use a pending membership questionnaire in my groups and I, the owner keeps track to see if one was

My preference as well but may not really be doable, since it would require the system to keep track of whether or not a member returned a questionnaire. I think, though, that the group approving a

This would be my preference for a change to the system. Duane

In fact, maybe this has been discussed before but it seems that in a restricted basic group, if the group requires a response to a questionnaire and receives a response, that should be sufficient to

My understanding is that NC members can't receive or send group messages until they are confirmed, even if their membership has been approved. Yet according to the logs, NC approved members are

Premium restricted groups have a "confirm" button for new members who have applied by email and have not found and clicked on the confirmation email. But basic groups do not. My block group, which is

The request is written up as a specific requirement but, in reality, this is a universal issue. A more general way to summarize this request is as follows: If I edit "xxx" and do not "Save" but do

This is in response to the GMF thread topic Pricing Too High, Storage Too Low, for groups.io I am a very small operator with a couple small free groups (33 and 15 members) and can't afford $20 ...

It would be extremely useful to be able to be able to limit a search in the files section to a specific folder. We have files segregated within topics and then within years, and when I do a search it

If "Reply to" in Group settings is set to "sender", and "Remove Other Reply Options" is checked, messages still contain a CC: header pointing to the group post address. This permits users to reply

If a group Member is clicked and their settings changed (for example, changing their role to Moderator and checking/unchecking various options), then: If the "Send Message" button at the bottom is