When approving multiple messages at once on the website, we now start to process them in order that we originally received them. Because of the nature of the queuing system used to process messages,

I made the same request in April 2018; see #16576. Chris

As best I can tell, there is no way to isolate messages sent as special notices via a search of the activity log. You can enter "sent special message" in the search box but it still turns up nothing.

When starting a New Topic, a pull-down menu for the From address allows me to select whether I'm posting from my home address or the +owner address. This option is missing when replying to an existing

Hi Mark, picking up on a GMF topic about searching for special notices that have been sent it has highlighted the fact that the documentation and web dialogue pages refer to sending Special Notices

I normally read and approve pending messages one at a time. Now and then I select all pending messages and click Approve. Most of the time it doesn't make any difference, but I noticed an anomaly

I don't know about the email commands, but the suggestion for the website strikes me as the height of simplicity. Something needs to be done to remedy this. Yes, it's really broken. Clearly if you're

I'm not aware of any way to lock/unlock a topic via email commands. This strikes me as really complicated. Backing up, I have to ask...is this really broken? If so, it seems to me that the fix is

And do the same for auto-moderation when the group is set to auto-moderate. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can

Sounds 100% good to me. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

Here's my suggestion. If a moderator is actively unlocking a topic that follows the auto-lock rules (via the web), pop up a message indicating that the topic was locked per the rules, and does the

Another problem is that there appears to be no activity-log entry for a topic that becomes locked or moderated automatically due to group time-out. The log shows "xyx unlocked topic," and then the

I somehow missed this in the thread. It's inconvenient/unworkable (I'll avoid the loaded term "bug") if you want to be able to manually unlock a topic and have it stay unlocked. In other words,

Typo - “ cannot be unlocked” -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

No, I think it can legitimately be called an unlocking bug. De minimus, the system should either forbid the attempted unlocking (“this topic has timed out and cannot needs unlocked”) or provide a

I wouldn't call it a bug there either. You know as well as I do that if there were no way to unlock a topic, someone would ask for it because they'd accidentally locked the wrong topic. Or needed to

If you want to mince words and say it’s not a bug in the feature because the feature works as described (of course it does), then blame the other side. Call it a bug with being able to manually

Right. The alternative, whatever you want to call it ( “never lock topic” is not bad but I’m not crazy about it - maybe “exclude from locking time-out”) could be on the More menu. I don’t

It sounds like what you want is another option - Never Lock Topic - on the More menu. Maybe use the lock-open icon to differentiate from the Unlock Topic option that uses the unlock icon. I believe

Correction - an auto-locked topic stays locked forever. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human