I don't work for GIO (and don't have a crystal ball ;>), but I'd expect your costs to remain the same as they are now for those years. So far, Mark has been very kind in allowing existing groups to

Last summer Mark added links in the files sections, with type of Google Drive/Docs, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft Onedrive. Each link type has a nice icon to go with it representive of the service. One

As has been pointed out, beta is where one does ask for the system to be changed. I am confused as to why the OP's request has generated such heat. It was a completely reasonable request! I want the

Exactly. That comment bothered me and you put words to my unease. Best, Glenn -- PG&E Delenda Est

I'm one of the owners of this group https://groups.io/g/HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment we have 4,708 members, and since we are using more than 1 GB of disk space, we are paying for the "Premium"

That's part of the purpose of beta.

A couple of situations I can see offhand. One is the forwarding that's already been mentioned. To minimize that problem, the 'login' could be a one-shot with no cookie set, but could still be

Aha, gotcha. Yes, continued impersonation of the authorization would be bad. Best, Glenn -- PG&E Delenda Est

Yes, this person clicking on a vote in a forwarded message has cast a proxy vote in your name, which is bad (and which I already mentioned here). But it's not nearly as bad as having him remain

Bruce, Help me out here, because I'm not sure how your recommendation solves the problem you state. Let's say there are separate links in the email as you recommend. Let us then say I

Mark -- On first sight, I kinda like this, except for the potential for forwarding, and accidentally granting someone else access to your account. Having specifically requested a link to log in, folks

So perhaps Groups.io isn't for you or your group. It was explained to you why the feature you requested doesn't exist the way you envision it, and maybe it was a little blunt, but so is asking for a

Tom, From this user's perspective, what you wrote is spot-on, and pretty well describes where the groups I manage stand as well. The attractiveness of Groups.io for a lot of people is that it offers

The same value to the group, minus the negativity, could have been delivered with "That's not correct, Tom. Every member of a group (hosted by Groups.io, that is!) has an Account, even if they don't

Tom's users don't think they have Groups.io accounts. Whether they technically do or not is not their problem nor concern. They want to participate in a poll, and are having trouble doing so. That's

I said that because of your assertion that your members did not have accounts when in fact they do. Further on you wrote: Perhaps, technically, but they don't know that, they have not set a password,

Hi Mark, On Groups.io the mouse pointer arrow changes to a hand pointer except when selecting options from the +New button in the Files section. Can we standardise please? Thanks Andy

You may want to direct the reluctant members to https://groups.io/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/understanding-groups-io-accounts/logging-in-to-your-account, especially the part about logging in without a

No I'm not. I may have not read the user manual (thanks for the link) and may not understand the subtlies of how groups.io tracks users, but I do have a valid point about our user's experience.

Yes, I can see that too. This is what I was referring to after selecting the name/email address link on the Activity log: Andy