Exactly. This has been an issue mostly with new members in my group. And I've had to personally explain it to them and/or simply fix their settings. NOBODY gets it at the beginnng. If the UI doesn't

Actually, it does work the way I expect it to, but that may be because I've been along for the entire ride. Duane

Absolutely. But when the UI design leads to a user thinking things operate differently than they actually do, the manual doesn't help.

Especially not new members initially setting up their membership. And I don’t want the smaller problem of Ayto-follow Replies without having Following Only set to get lost in the mire. While not as

Great. Kudos to the members manual and Nina! Even better to change the wording on the actual UI. And better yet for the UI (not just the internals) to bear that out. No group members I know of read

It is perhaps worth noting that the Members Manual makes it clear that "Special Notices Only" means Special Notices Only and that opening Advanced Preferences on a subscriber's Subscription Settings

If there is huge resistance to changing the layout (and I'm not sure there is - witness Shal's and Peter's responses here), here's a simple way to at least clarify to users what will happen. Change

I would actually rephrase that: it will not work the way *any* user expects. If you set yourself to Following Only after setting yourself to Special Notices Only, you would expect to receive messages

It is a serious problem for my group members and others’. People think when they follow a topic that they’ll get the emails from it. They don’t. The mods I’ve contacted have all gone in and

While that combination of options may not work the way some users expect, they will not miss any Special Notices due to it so I don't really see that as a 'serious problem'. Andy

Actually Peter Cook first tested this and since then I and numerous others have confirmed it. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I'm not arguing. I'm just

Also, I never claimed that was a problem. I said I had not yet tested it but that it might be. It's not.-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. I'm not arguing.

That's right. Christos was correct about that. The original serious problem still remains, which is that members can set themselves to Special Notices Only and Following Only, and think that they will

I'm trying to get back up to speed with this topic and I see that Christos confirmed what is shown on the Subscription page in the Advanced Preferences panel that they do not apply if Special Notices

There is one issue with putting Special Nofices Only in the “what” (message selection) category snd the others in the “how” (format of receipt - individual, digest, or summary). The problem is

Shal, I'm with you. No real reason, just anticipating a fight to keep the status quo, or "it's too difficult for people," etc. LOL that's exactly the kind of thinking I was talking about in my answer

J, Agreed. I think the only reason it is the way it is was to keep the Email Delivery options comparable to Yahoo Groups. That's now an extinct reason, so it may be timely to reconsider it. a)

Doesn't matter for this testing, he doesn't have to actually send the message, he can discard it;  we're just testing the editor's AttachFile functionality. Cheers, Christos

Trying to send 10MB files via email is asking for trouble. Dave http://davesergeant.com

I tried it 3-4 times and works fine for me; only very large files cause the same problem to me. Are you saying this exact file you attached gave you the problem before? (but it worked fine this