Which proves my point. No matter how many times, or in how many places, Group_Help is referred to or mentioned, I don't think it will be able to gain the critical mass that GMF has accumulated, for

It’s actually very simple. And of course I’m letting it be: It’s not my group. But as we are discussing here the future disposition of the three categories of messages, it would seem that the

I've been a Groups.io owner for almost 2 years, been in both GMF and this group the whole time and this is the first mention I've ever seen about Group_Help. It might have more 'critical mass' if it

Sorry, but that isn't as simple as you seem to make it out . Let it be as is.

Sorry, that can be accomplished by making it NuM. I was not going to comment further, but being a semi-organized entity with knowledgeable folks at the helm does not require a group to be strictly

I was referring to error reporting and feature requests in consolidating all functions to the beta group, thus the canning of Canny. In no shape or form should there be a help request

I'm not talking about bias of any kind. And I think this has gone too off-topic into why I personally don't join moderated groups. So I won't be responding further on that issue, except to mention

What I was wondering too. In my 20 months on this list, contributing occasionally and reading (or at least glancing at) every post, I've seen no evidence of any bias in the moderation. --

Why, exactly? Chris

Except for possibly canning Canny, which I support, and/or reverting to allowing bug reports in beta, which I would also support (but have no strong feelings about), that is almost certainly not going

I concur, consolidating all functions to the beta group and "canning" Canny makes the most sense. RC

Or at least a very strong suggestion. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond

I feel very strongly about GMF being set to NuM *if* it is going to continue to be the officially mandated help group for groups.io (which you can't really argue that it's not, even given the

Group Help doesn't really have critical mass.-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. -

Group_Help also offers to help other users and is NuM. Mark has suggested both that and GMF as sources of assistance. Duane

One problem is "enforcement" (or "encouragement") of disallowing basic help questions and bugs to be posted on beta. This occurs frequently and nobody likes playing cop and telling people, especially

I really like the idea of having 3 separate groups for those various strands. As the owner of a couple of free groups (I transferred my groups to io when it was still free, yahoo group owner for 15

Yes, please try not to allow beta to be overrun with help requests again. I also wonder about the name "beta." Maybe should be renamed "gamma." :) -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author,

I like the idea of using this group for everything. It keeps it all in one place, thus easier to follow. And with the addition of (moderator only) #closed, #planned, etc, it would duplicate much of

Are you saying that bug reports would start going to beta again instead of to support? I'm all for this, simply because sometimes the difference between a bug and a feature is unclear, and also