I do agree that email-commands are vital and practical, but because of the existence of (those darned) auto-responders we shouldn't make it TOO easy. Could you make it so that people would need a

This feature would make groups consultable. Of course messages from non-member should always be moderated. Ideally, the entire thread that results should be sent to the person who started it (unless

The requirements in relation to structuring links will vary enormously from one group to another. I would suggest simple links with associated (limited) explanatory text, but with the addition of an

whofanvidme, Having each link entry consist of a description text plus an expandable list of links is not a bad idea. It neatly handles the case of a few related links without having to go to the

Ronaldo, If the addressee's email service follows RFC3834 it would be possible to distinguish an auto response from a manual one. In particular there is an Auto-Submitted field which the responder

Ronaldo, Oh, that's an interesting thought. Sort-of a temporary membership, subscribed only to that person's own thread. That could revolutionize how some help and advice groups operate. Even

Trish, Fundamentally Wiki pages are rich text pages which can edited by site users. In the case of a group, that would mean the group members (if permitted). So, members could write descriptions and

Thanks Shal. That might work for us as long as it was searchable. We do have our current links broken down into subfolders by category. Trish

My son who boycotts our family Yahoogroups suggests this: He would like to be able to set up preferences so that he receives the first post in any thread to the groups he subscribes to - automatically

That does seem like a common use case. If the workflow around this could be simplified, then it could be group for advice groups.

I think when deciding what features to add that it might be worth considering inconvenient it will be for people to emulate those features if you don't provide them. For most of those features, the

Chris, That depends strongly on the nature of the group and its members. In many cases access control is a key component of using the feature - just as with the message archives. People don't

Good point. Although initially, a service that utilises private URLs might be sufficient. It depends heavily on the nature of the groups though.

Chris, Like Flickr's Guest Pass? Yes, that could work. Then the trick would be to let the "integration" display the referenced photo(s) in a natural way for the members, rather than them having to

Hi Frances, It almost exactly works like that right now. When your subscription is set to receive only the first message in a thread, if you later click the follow thread link for that thread, any/all

I was not aware of the Auto-Submitted header. I'll add code to drop any message received containing that field set to either 'auto-generated' or 'auto-replied'. Back in the ONElist days, I hard-coded

I really like this idea. I don't think it'll be difficult, because it's just like a user who is set to replies only. Let me spec something up. It'll be a nice break from working on the calendar/event

I realized after I went to bed last night that I was wrong.. It does not currently work close to what your son wants. If set to receive the first message only and on digest, those messages will go to

Mark, Heh. Books full of fiddly bits. Yes, I would definitely want them listed (and of course activity logged). Probably in the main Members list so I don't have to remember to check for them

I like instant subscriptions. Here's a possible hitch I've come up with. If you are not a Groups.io user at all, and send a message to a group and are instantly subscribed, you've effectively bypassed