Your first two sentences were also true back when Groups.io offered fully featured “free groups”. I fail to see how the substantially expanded size of Groups.io since the demise of Yahoo Groups

Having the ability to upload banned domains from a csv file would be a beneficial feature for those of us managing multiple parent groups. This would be especially valuable during the creation of a

Hi Mark, I consider this a bug, but someone else on GMF didn't. Regardless, it's inconsistent: - If there's a pending message, as owner, I get an email reminder near the end

When I select infinite scroll in display preferences and look at the Photo Album page, it only displays the top 20 albums with no scrolling available. The navigation buttons are no longer available

I agree with the email asking them to reaffirm interest (and have ust suggested that in the prior thread, before this one started) but not the removal criterion for bouncing. Most often they're

I sort of see some utility to this but totally disagree with how "idle" would be defined. We have many members who just lurk and then suddenly, sometimes even years later, pop up to say how they've

Ah, I get it. That totally makes sense as part of the limits of a free offering.

Very fair point; I should have made it clear that I was thinking about reducing the costs of free groups; paid - for groups are not only covering their own costs but those of the free groups as

I am site manager for a Listserv (L-Soft) mailing list server. One of its features is Probe, which periodically sends a message to each registered address asking them to respond positively if they

Good thought; however, my $.02: One of my groups has an archive going back to 2001, and some of our members do use it. (It contains valuable neighborhood history.) Personally I'd prefer that any

I would also find it useful to know who is active and who isn't. Another way to go about it would be to have a sortable "Last Post Date" column in the member list. Then the owner could decide what

And thus there need to be alternative strategies for "balancing the books"; Mark: One thought (and I mean thought; this is not a suggestion!) is that over time the biggest cost associated with any

Suggestion: Automatically detect and add a label in the Admin Members list for members who are "idle". What that means is: 1. The group has at least one message per month. Otherwise, the group is

Hi All, Ads are not an option. Email-based ads simply aren't available, and even if they were, they would not pay nearly enough to justify including them. Thanks, Mark

This service costs money, and someone has to pay for it. There is no getting around it. Basic groups are riding on the backs of those who pay, and their very existence cuts into groups.io's profit

That sounds like a koan. (I think he meant "ad.") -- 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.

I recently helped move a group of parents of special-needs children from Yahoo Groups to groups.io. The groups has been in existence since 2001, so many of those original children have grown up, but

That makes me wonder (going off-topic here) if there could or should be a feature wherein we can ask members to actively confirm that they want to stay in the group. I know we have a bunch of deadwood

And once more, a non-USAmerican fails to understand the huge difference between what 501(3)(c) status means, and what non-profit status means, under US law. To be snarky, I'll point out that IKEA is,

We are a 6,000+ membership international group going back 15 years. I have no idea how many of those members are actively reading the group; or, not to be morbid, are even still alive, but their email