Hi J_catlady, Thank you for your kind comment. Unfortunately, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, or something like that. Civility is good, and I'm a big fan and supporter, but

J>> But I think his "purpose" is higher than just making a buck. In business it is about your reputation in business and quality of service is important so you can make money. When you own a

Mark B., You're very convincing, I have to admit. I think of the code of conduct more as an issue of civility rather than censorship. However, I do see that it would be very hard to untangle the

Hi Mark, It seems to me that every group on Groups.io already has the perfect Code of Conduct enforcement method in place: if a member has an issue with something that has been posted, regardless of

Vickie, I can't read Mark's mind. But while I agree with everything you say here, on another level I have come to believe that Mark is thinking about more than "business." I believe he's trying to

Mark, I had time to think hard on what you want. First you opened the pandoras box asking for suggestions.. ha,ha,ha.. it's trailing off on what new features can be added to .io groups..

Sue, There was some confusion on this, but there apparently is not a limit. My test group has an email address which has been in the Pending Approval list since Jan 22nd. If it is blank no message

Janice, One clue to what's happening is in the Message-ID field in the header. Look in the View Original of the two copies in your group, and compare that field. If they are different then the

Brenda, Yes. I'm sure that even if Mark changes the control, or adds a control, to include an option to not receive your own messages, he'll do it in a way that preserves your existing setting. --

That is completely true. I am in many dog groups, and you cant hardly talk about breeding because Yahoo apparently only knows one meaning and use for the term "bitch". Ro with Sally and Silk waiting

Brenda>>>>Certain words, like the N word or other actual curse words could be flagged by an automated system, but if they appeared to fit in the context of a group, such as bitch in a dog group, it

RS wrote:>> From a more practical perspective though, how does one enforce the CoC, and who decides what is what?  Seems like you'd need a reporting system and a dispute resolution system.  YouTube

'The Offensive Internet' is a great book by a bunch of law professors who argue that First Amendment law has not kept up with the state of technology. Writing slander on a bathroom wall is a far cry

Mark Fletcher wrote:>>Recently, complaints about bullying by group owners. But my thought about creating a CoC is more about the future than right now, and shaping the general reputation of Groups.io

Brenda>>>You'd be surprised. Sometimes the moderator is the person who is the hater. Sometimes they are in league with the hater. Having had a LOT of experience with this on Yahoo, with very specific

Vickie wrote:>>there are many John f names.. as in John middle name frank.. Names have no copy right ownership. Neither do towns or counties.<< True, but he is talking about a very specific

D R Stinson <dano@...> wrote:>>The Code of Conduct needs to be something that is not negotiable by any group owner or moderator. They are the rules that MUST be adhered to by *all* users of

RS wrote:>>SUGGESTION: Create a "Code of Conduct" message page for all groups, always visible can't be deactivated. It would be linked on the sidebar like any other feature. It would be auto

No, there really wasn't a decision made on Polls, but I believe that's the latest discussion for and against. There was a problem using the download procedure with the button in Firefox (which I

My worry about having an official code of conduct that applies to every group is that there will be some who try to stretch it too far. For example, let's say I post that I had a delicious ham