Yes, but collecting 55 cents a year from each of several thousand members, then unsubscribing those who don't pay, might not be so easy to do in practice. I sure wouldn't want that chore! Drew

OK... so 50 posts a year is quiet, and 50 posts a day is busy. However, there is huge gap in the middle; the group I co - own runs to a rough average of 15 posts per day from a total membership of

Mark, the pricing page says "If you are legally recognized as a non-profit organization..." Can you clarify - are you specifically referring to 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), or other designations? It would be

50 posts a year vs 50 posts a day (....) groetjes/ĝis, Ronaldo

The average number of subscribers to each free group on Groups.io is 85. I don't know what the median is, but I suspect it's significantly lower than that. I do appreciate all the feedback, please

Mark is, of course, free to do what he wants, but by capping free groups at 100 members he is essentially saying "no more free groups". In most groups that I participate in, only 5-10% of members

Thanks for the correction. It works out to 55cents a year paid annually. Little more than 1/2 dollar per year is still very reasonable. MKR

First define "quiet" and "busy". Chris

I’m getting confused just reading this. -- 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

Here's a suggestion I made recently on GMF: One option would be to create a test group (using the settings required by GIO - "If you are creating a group solely for testing, please ensure that the

Does a quiet group with 1000 members always cost you more than a busy one with just a few dozen? Do you have any statistics on how many groups there are, how big they are and how busy? Is there a

Having reread Mark's original post about this a couple of times it appears to be 5 cents per month, not per year. Chris

Most, if not all, email clients allow the creation of "rules" or "filters" that can be used to put selected messages directly in the trash. IF a car has seatbelts too short to fit properly, you

Mark has to run a self sustaining business with a reasonable profit so that Group.io will survive and successful in the long run. The tech support users are getting is outstanding. I host couple of

I understand there are costs but I operate a large number of enthusiast groups from which I make no money, I do it because I enjoy the topic. Some of these groups get big, some don’t, some donate to

Attachment removal seach in ~Groups Management list had no solution but agreements. I post a well stated excerp; "IIRC Mark was considering / looking at ways of preventing duplicates being stored but

Mark -- The following bug was recently reported by a user in GMF ( https://groups.io/g/Group_Help/message/1870 ). If you require hashtags in the group and an incoming email does not meet those

Right, the total lack of logging owner messages has been *irksome* for a long, long time! When is this going to change? -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy

No, nothing changes with that. You can upgrade for a month, do your direct add, and then downgrade again to free. Note that we have always asked groups to pay for a year of premium for us to import

Mark,Thanks. -- 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 Tutu