Mark, I think they absolutely have to be optional for moderators. Whether they're optional for non-mods could possibly be a group setting. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author,

Hi All, As I continue to work through notifications, questions arise. Right now, some existing notifications are optional. When adding a file, for example, you have a checkbox to notify the group.

You can manage the wiki on GitHub as a normal git repo, and it would be interesting to have for the files section managed through git as well. This would open all sort of very easy and interesting

Changes to the site this week (resend with proper formatting): NEW: Upload Folder button in the Files area to upload a directory of files. API: Added /newmembernotice, /updatemembernotice,

Bruce, My initial concept was "no", matching Bryce's use case. On the other hand I generally support the notion that a member should have the right to remove their own material. I'm willing to

I accept all of the suggestions. In retrospect, I feel it could be a single message, or ultimately the entire topic. In my situation, most of the messages within the topic would need to go on lockdown

Bruce, In my concept they remain visible to mods and owners. Like a locked or moderated topic, I proposed an eye-slash icon (badge) to the left of the subject

That was brain fart on my part...Shal already suggested the eyeball-slash character as a label. I still like the idea, but I guess I'm confusing myself with the use cases. This proposal is being

Okay, upon further reflection I can go along with that. Question: How does one find a hidden topic (or message) in order to unhide it later? How are they flagged so those with the proper privileges to

Excellent! Thanks Mark. Jim Fisher -- http://jimellame.tumblr.com - My thoughts on freedom (needs updating) http://jimella.wordpress.com - political snippets, especially economic

Peter, Both cases are received by the same user account at gmail, whether an alias was predefined or not. The alias case simply allows the user to filter incoming messages based on the

Shal: Understood now. So if no aliases are defined and I send an email to <myname+sometext@...>, it will simply strip and discard "+sometext" (which is what I have seen), whereas if I define

Bruce, Yes, I believe that was the intent, similar to Locking or Moderating a topic. True, but the use case I see for hiding just a single message would be in an otherwise valuable and/or important

Peter, That's exactly what Gmail means by an alias: username+foo is an alias for username. But it isn't stripped - the +foo part shows in the received message and is available for use in filter

I like the idea, if restricted to Topics, and given only to Owners and Moderators with the "edit archives" permission. The ability to hide individual messages can create confusion when the remaining

Which was the point I was making, albeit rather obliquely in my earlier post. An email to the ICO (Information Commissioner for non - UK readers) might just stir things up a bit. Chris.

In my last message message, something or someone downstream of me replaced the word "gmail" after the @ symbol, by three dots,in two places, and that wrecked the meaning. Truncation of the user-part

Shal's reference to gmail using "+" in some way associated with aliases, is not consistent with the observation (by me and others) that gmail truncates leftsides at a "+" . An email to

And also being on that group I have seen the offending message that should have just been sent to owners. Some owner messages should never be accidentally sent to the whole list. As for gmail

Chris, The problem is that the affected person may not be a user of the service that’s messed up. I would however say that there may be a case for filing a GDPR failure against them Dave