Mark, Earlier I may have opposed rewriting the From field in member's own messages when "I always want copies of my own emails" is checked, but a few factors have changed by viewpoint. Now I think

Janice, What Donald and others have said. Yahoo Groups did have discrete two-line text ads in the footers of email messages at one time. They gave up on that really early on because the few

JohnF, I like that idea. Sort of like joining a YouTuber's Discord channel. I like that too. Also, maybe there could be donation incentives at the group level, either within the current Donation

Given TIME, and changes in circumstances........ANYTHING that has been "cast in stone", is subject to change. Chuck, CABGx3

For the purposes of planning, I am going to assume that - as is generally the case - Mark means what he says. Pete

If I go wayyyyyyyy back in time, like to the 1980s, I was a member of several bulletin board systems, accessed by dial-up modem. They had to pay for phone service, quite a lot if they were a

I would be willing to bet that there is a LONG line of folks salivating to be able to start putting ads on Gio. Doubt if any soliciting would be needed......ever. Chuck, CABGx3

Best idea I've heard yet. Chuck, CABGx3

I think Mark has made it pretty clear that he doesn’t want to be in the business of selling advertising. And I don’t blame him. I myself run a business providing and selling service X. I would not

Janice . . . I wondered about this too but it would only work if the members had to get their messages at the group web site and not by email. Yes, ads could be put in the posts emailed out to

My group is a Premium group grandfathered in from years ago so these changes do not affect me. I currently pay the $10 a month fee out of my own pocket for my 2000+ group. I know that if I were not

Scott, Thanks for this prospective. Like you, I have created and "own" groups that are not "mine". They belong to others who lack the skills needed to create/own/manage a group. I have no desire to

I wish there was a way to give money to io groups with no strings attached. I have a couple of grandfathered groups I will not make into paid groups for a short time and then have to go back to a free

Mark, There's a lot of ground to cover in this topic, but having read through it now I do have some 1st impression comments. I agree with what many have said about 100 being too low an absolute

Drew, Why not? If I understand the existing donation mechanism, the proceeds of each member's donation are deposited into the group's Stripe account. What the group owners do with the money is

Ken, I prefer the idea of voluntary donations, but if the group owner wanted to make donation mandatory then I'd say "absolutely". In fact, were I an owner of such a group I'd be more inclined to

Scott, Same for a handful of groups where I'm a co-owner. I believe that the members need not do anything with Stripe, they just make a CC payment much as you did to pay for Premium Plan for your

Trustpilot gives Stripe payment 3.6 stars out of 5. That's not very good, but from the few negative reviews I read it seems like it's mostly the sellers and businesses which have the complaints

I agree with Drew about Members needing to be viewed and treated as Customers, instead of just the "Owners". Many Members even belong to multiple Groups. There needs to be a way for Mark to get money

I would send a donation. <kensch888@...> wrote: ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM