I was thinking along these lines too, Gilbert. Very good idea! _Alan ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

Changes to the site this week: October 22, 2021: BUGFIX: When merging two accounts, if both accounts had subscriptions to the same group, an activity log message was not generated for that group

Would it be possible to create some sort of macro or text substitution capability in the member notices Subject and Body? Therefore, the subject could be something like “Welcome to

Mark, Or the Owner only wanted to change the Group name. I think this is the more likely situation, in either case it's better to receive the 'old' message with the new Group name, than with the

It's all covered very well in the Owners Manual in the Renaming a Group section. The manual should be the first thing a new group owner reads (after the ToS ;>) to learn about things like this.

I see the issues now. Perhaps a simple pop up explaining that certain settings need to be changed. Thanks the help. _Alan

I think there are other member notices affected besides just the Welcome notice. Also, wiki entries may now contain dead links, footer links in emails previously sent will now generate 404 errors,

For "group-wide info" this has been done. Chris

As it is possible to have several welcome messages defined. Maybe you could rename (and mark inactive) the existing welcome message before creating the new message with the changed name embedded

Hello, It looks like you created a group and then changed the name of the group. When a group is created, a welcome message for the group is also created. When the group name is changed, we don't

Chris, The points Andy made are in fact how things work. I'd be happy to investigate this specific instance if you'd like; off-list send me the two email addresses and I'll check it out. Thanks, Mark

Chris, I don't know anything about how merging accounts works. But it seems to me that some of the things you seem to be surprised about, are normal or ought to be normal. If this person was already

I started creating a group and used an initial address (eg: xxx@groups.io). When it flagged that address as invalid, I changed it to another (eg: yyy@groups.io). When inviting people, the invite

Mark; a sequence of events yesterday on the (Restricted) group I co-own has revealed what I suspect might be a bug within the Merge or Edit Account functions. Suffice to say it has left an account

Hi Andy, No, you misunderstood. It's not a literal 100% correlation with the mod notifications, we're borrowing the options but not the content itself. For the mods, yes, the "Email" option refers

Hi Mark, if you change your timezone using the dropdown field at the bottom of the Monthly calendar view, the display switches to List format while the format button still shows Month. Regards Andy

Hi Christos, your suggestion covers the receipt of notifications and how that is achieved but there is a distinction between the notification about a message and the message itself. My point is that

Hi, I was a member of a group and a moderator. Due to circumstances and having one of those really bad days (months), I deleted my account. I rejoined again, however I have a new poster ID. I did ask

Due to Apple's app store rules, we cannot take any payments using the mobile app (if we do, we have to set up app payments through Apple as well, which would take a 30% cut). I will remove the the

I believe I have now fixed this. Please let me know if you see it again. Thanks, Mark