Hi All, Group creation has been turned back on. Now, when a (listed) group is created, it won't actually appear in the directory or search until I approve it. This is mentioned on the page displayed

This is likely a bad idea but I'll share anyway. What about a credit card transaction like other sites use to verify identity? Does nextdoor do that? Or paypal when you set up an account and link it

Mark How about some kind of challenge like a captcha but instead of typing characters in an image or numbers in an audio file ask questions only we humans know the answer to and not both humans and

Oh no Mark, this is not good. I agree. Definitely needs to be a system to approve groups before they're made available to the public. I will go ahead and do the same for subgroups just in case an

Mark, Victim of your own success. Alas. If the spammers are using the group home page to promote something then keeping them out of the directory makes sense, but it may not be enough to discourage

Hi All, I just temporarily disabled new group creation (you can still create subgroups). I did this because there's at least one persistent spammer creating new spam groups faster than I can delete

That's odd. I was the one that unsubscribed Sanjay, with that message, and I did it from a Linux machine (Ubuntu 14.04) and Chrome. Very odd. --jeffp

Either that, or I think we need some other reasonable navigational path to find and merge two topics, one or more of which may be old. I am finding it nearly impossible. ??? -- J Messages are the

This morning I wanted to merge two threads having to do with a particular cat, "Fluffy" (not her real name;). I first had to find the two threads, since one of them was old. I did a search on

Hi Jeff, If you look at the source of the message, or the URL itself, it has been defanged. Clicking on that link would not have unsubscribed Sanjay, it would have (and does) return a 404 error. So,

Hi All, I just made a change to emailed login links. Before, the link would expire after the first time it was clicked, or 30 minutes, whichever came first. But there are anti-spam systems that

Here's one that wasn't defanged as we did our testing of this issue: https://groups.io/g/95033test/message/29?p=Created,0,,100,2,0,6828005&offset=0 I know it wasn't defanged because at Sanjay's

The "forwarded unsubscribe link" is a problem for just about everything that is emailed. One extra bit of protection you might consider is that if someone is logged in as a different user, the

Hi Maria, Good ideas. I've changed those two attributes to be phrased in the positive: Members can edit their posts Members can set their subscriptions to no email Thanks, Mark

That response is what we get from the other server, and can be anything. I'm not really sure what it means in this case other than some sort of temporary internal error on their part. Mark

[Beta] New card "Have an ICS feed of calendar events that people could subscribe to." was added to list "Calendar". [Beta] The green label "Calendar" was added to the card "Have an ICS feed of

Hi All, I've mentioned in the past that I wanted to be able to leverage the database code to create a sort of extended set of attributes for each member. And as part of that generate a pending

Right. As my dad says, life is a series of tradeoffs and a filing problem. Originally the unsubscribe link didn't even ask for confirmation, it was a true one-click unsubscribe. But it turns out that

Remembering back, I think he also did something like that for the confirm link after our group's little misadventure. Before that, I distinctly remember trying the link and being surprised when I

And nevermind. Someone (Mark!) was ahead of me. Turns out the unsubcribe link is valid for only one use. We just retried it and the link isn't valid anymore. So at least it isn't a long term denial