Sorry about the extra messages... but for extra clarity, there are also lots of existing Forums, which are basically bulletin-boards, people log in and post and read the topics all online, no email.

Ok, I'm going to answer my question because I thought of something, though my particular GIO group would absolutely not go for it any way whatsoever ;-) If the email archives themselves can be handled

I first want to agree that Mark must be able to run GIO effectively and with appropriate funding, it's his baby to orient as he wishes. The crux of the new funding proposal has to do with number of

There’s a very effective (if morally bankrupt) negotiating tactic that completely excludes any traditional presumption of “good faith. One simply puts “on the table" an obviously unacceptable

That's a fair point. I hate digests personally, but I recognize that others find value in them. Best, Glenn -- PG&E Delenda Est

Of course that technique fails for members using digest subscriptions.

Now we're into competitive territory. A listserv license from L-Soft is about that: $3,000 a year. But that's for up to 20 lists, each of unlimited size. I'm site manager for a co-op server that hosts

That sounds like the listserv Probe function. Larry -- Larry Finch N 40° 53' 50" W 74° 02' 55"

A LISTSERV list that I'm a member of tells me once a year to confirm my subscription by replying to the mail. If I don't confirm, I get unsubscribed. This may be an idea for a Groups.io feature to

Hello everyone I just created a link to a Box.net folder in our Files section, but the link doesn't work, because a UTF-8 BOM is added to the end of the URL. This was not visible when I pasted the

Looks ok, thanks

Not on its own. On all except one of the groups I inhabit I have "Special" set; effectively "no mail". However, I look at the them all from time to time during the day so any No Email setting would

The only practical definition of "inactive" that I can think of for members in an announcement-only group is (a) they're email-only and (b) their delivery is set to "no email." Pete

I'm also in agreement that some kind of process/capability/metric can help in identifying member active status and help keep group membership trim and fit. But because different groups operate in

In my experience, GMail is extremely good about identifying those probes, and labelling them as spam. Whilst I should look at my spam box at least once a week, i don't. (Roughly 30% of the email

Back in the late 90s, the recommendation for migrating from one list platform to another, was to send an email with the new subscription address for the list, to list-members, advising them that they

Agreed.

Right. And some of us have been around long enough to know that Mark keeps his word. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours,

I believe this covers you. Per Mark's original post: These changes only apply to groups upgraded after January 18th, 2021 at 9am Pacific Time; existing premium and enterprise groups will keep their

My group goes back to “E-groups” in the early noughties and I stayed with Yahoo until they messed things up. In fact I styed rather longer as I couldn’t find an alternative. I got ripped off