This decision was made years ago and IIRC, the majority of people were strongly in favor of not notifying people when they are banned. If you feel differently, you're free to set up an active Banned

What is the point of trying to mislead people about why they can't join groups? If a ban is legitimate, then I see no good reason to hide it. Letting people know what behavior or actions result in

This group alias issue is one of those bits that can get somewhat complicated. If the aim of the no-more or limited aliases is to disable or discourage/curb squatting (malevolent or not

I would agree with zero as the limit. Name squatting, like domain name squatting, is pretty evil. Best, Glenn -- PG&E Delenda Est

I remember/know of one case so far where a group wanting to move from Yahoo couldn't use the old group name. A 'competitor' used it as an alias here just so the group moving couldn't. There are

Bruce, That can be/is a possibility but the good mitigating factor to that is that group aliases are not available in free groups so it would mean someone would have to pay $220 for

The other thing I encountered when investigating (aka quizzing Nina about :) what a banned member or domain sees upon trying to join the group was a bad error message when a banned member actually

Remember the old clap-boards used to cause a sound matxhing vision to sync sound and movemnt in the film industry? Sony upped that. Digital display with 60(100?). lights going around it to provide

Andy -- Using GMail, I got this back: So it does...eventually...tell you why the failure occurred. The main problem is that the failure is not 500-level, so your provider (and mine) keeps trying to

As I was the cause of this being raised, I'll offer a view that 5 might be considered too few but I appreciate that there must be some restriction because they all restrict (or are restricted by) the

Not all transparency is good. We (purposely) don’t let people know when they’ve been banned from a grouo. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity

In my view: YES! Transparency is good. And I must say, banning entire domains sounds highly dubious to begin with, unless the whole domain is clearly just a vehicle for spam. In that case, I would

Mark wrote this in the update today: Banned domains came up for me recently when a former group member whom I had banned, and whose domain I had also banned, tried to resubscribe. I banned both him

Changes to the site this week: DOCS: Updates from Nina. CHANGE: New, better favicon. NEW: Group sponsorships can now be paid using Paypal. BUGFIX: In the members page, if you did a new search while on

This is good news Mark, thanks. While I would like (love?) to have PayPal accepted throughout I can get by with annually opening up sponsorship for long enough to let the group treasurer put in enough

Add me to the list of those supportive of ‘color recognition’ enhancements. AND fully supportive of the ‘dials’ argument in the P. S. Science supports each of these.

Premium/Enterprise groups can create an unlimited number of group aliases. Those names become unavailable for others to use. As GIO grows, this strikes me as increasingly problematic. Someone with

Can we use it to "sponsor" groups.io or just local groups? Ken S "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,

Hi All, I just pushed to production support for paying group sponsorships using Paypal. Please let me know if you see anything amiss. (Adding Paypal support for group hosting fees will require much

>>> Suggestion 1: Change the background colour I also agree that, at the very-very least, changing the NM badge to some warning shade (red/maroon with yellow letters?) would