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Hi Mark, There are definitely some advantages to growing slowly, but I suspect that the growth of this service would still take significant time even if you were to aggressively promote Groups.io. At
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Hi Mark, There are definitely some advantages to growing slowly, but I suspect that the growth of this service would still take significant time even if you were to aggressively promote Groups.io. At
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Of course mods should have the option to use keywords (and maybe punished if they use them falsely). Since there's just a hundred groups under groups.io now , it's not very urgent to install them. Peo
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Of course mods should have the option to use keywords (and maybe punished if they use them falsely). Since there's just a hundred groups under groups.io now , it's not very urgent to install them. Peo
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A few further points, In terms of categorisation, I agree with that tags tend to be a better solution ... Replying to an email address to subscribe is a really nice solution. It doesn't require the us
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A few further points, In terms of categorisation, I agree with that tags tend to be a better solution ... Replying to an email address to subscribe is a really nice solution. It doesn't require the us
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markf@corp.groups.io sendis: I disagree with you. It doesn't have to be "new, modern and fresh". Just because english doesn't have a word for it (in dutch:degelijk), doesn't mean people can't apprecia
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markf@corp.groups.io sendis: I disagree with you. It doesn't have to be "new, modern and fresh". Just because english doesn't have a word for it (in dutch:degelijk), doesn't mean people can't apprecia
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walkraft, That's what the Invite mechanism does: sends the person an email. Their reply to that message adds them to the group's mailing list. Providing the person with the group's +subscribe address
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walkraft, That's what the Invite mechanism does: sends the person an email. Their reply to that message adds them to the group's mailing list. Providing the person with the group's +subscribe address
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There should definitely be a mechanism for users to delete all of their content in a group on Groups.io. The question is whether it should be opt in or opt out. If someone needs to opt into the transf
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There should definitely be a mechanism for users to delete all of their content in a group on Groups.io. The question is whether it should be opt in or opt out. If someone needs to opt into the transf
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There is not. But you can create an email integration, which is a unique email address, that can be used to send messages to the group. Yep. Mark
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There is not. But you can create an email integration, which is a unique email address, that can be used to send messages to the group. Yep. Mark
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Welcome to the group Trish! We already support the full list of email commands, just like Yahoo, except that we use a '+' instead of '-' before the commands (so groupname+join@groups.io, etc). You nev
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Welcome to the group Trish! We already support the full list of email commands, just like Yahoo, except that we use a '+' instead of '-' before the commands (so groupname+join@groups.io, etc). You nev
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Hah. I literally LOLed at this. My wife and I have 13 month old twins, so, yeah, we generally are weary these days... Mark
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Hah. I literally LOLed at this. My wife and I have 13 month old twins, so, yeah, we generally are weary these days... Mark
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Mark, Ah, I was wondering how that differed from the group's posting address. Very important that messages to that address be moderated (at least optionally) - which I think you said has or will be ad
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Mark, Ah, I was wondering how that differed from the group's posting address. Very important that messages to that address be moderated (at least optionally) - which I think you said has or will be ad
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Chris, I've no problem with it being opt-out, in the sense of having a place during the join and invite mechanisms where the option is pre-checked. But I believe that the option must be fairly present
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Chris, I've no problem with it being opt-out, in the sense of having a place during the join and invite mechanisms where the option is pre-checked. But I believe that the option must be fairly present
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Hmm, I have always been against allowing non-subscribers to post to groups, because that leads to dead groups that are festering pits of spam. I had not considered making it an option that those messa
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Hmm, I have always been against allowing non-subscribers to post to groups, because that leads to dead groups that are festering pits of spam. I had not considered making it an option that those messa
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Perhaps it'd be useful to share and talk about the feature roadmap for Groups.io, especially in light of the recent conversation. Here's what I've been thinking, please let me know your thoughts. - Ca
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Perhaps it'd be useful to share and talk about the feature roadmap for Groups.io, especially in light of the recent conversation. Here's what I've been thinking, please let me know your thoughts. - Ca
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I like the reroute-to-owner idea. Then at that point give the owner the opportunity to flag them as spam. I'm all for avoiding those festering pits. Trish
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I like the reroute-to-owner idea. Then at that point give the owner the opportunity to flag them as spam. I'm all for avoiding those festering pits. Trish
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Hi Mark, Here's a rundown of our needs. My groups are animal rescue related, so for our purposes we need links, files and spreadsheets. We are storing specific links to articles/blogs/etc related to r
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Hi Mark, Here's a rundown of our needs. My groups are animal rescue related, so for our purposes we need links, files and spreadsheets. We are storing specific links to articles/blogs/etc related to r
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Hi Mark, The top priorities for my groups are Scheduled Files and a Links Library. Thanks, Linda
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Hi Mark, The top priorities for my groups are Scheduled Files and a Links Library. Thanks, Linda
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Mark, Without moderation I'd agree. But my Yahoo Groups that operate this way in fact receive very few non-member attempted postings (sometimes months between them), either spam or valid. In Yahoo's g
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Mark, Without moderation I'd agree. But my Yahoo Groups that operate this way in fact receive very few non-member attempted postings (sometimes months between them), either spam or valid. In Yahoo's g
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Mark, I'll agree with this one on top. Reminders are useful in most of my types of groups. Assuming the existence of general Files storage (not on your list), if a reminder can have attached files tha
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Mark, I'll agree with this one on top. Reminders are useful in most of my types of groups. Assuming the existence of general Files storage (not on your list), if a reminder can have attached files tha
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I think the use of tags would be excellent, especially if they are searchable by search engines, which would in itself give publicity to Groups.io every time someone searched for a word used as a tag.
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I think the use of tags would be excellent, especially if they are searchable by search engines, which would in itself give publicity to Groups.io every time someone searched for a word used as a tag.
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Here's my idea for an improved links section layout. I was going to post it to the Yahoo! suggestion board, but I suspect it would gain more traction here. Back when Yahoo! Groups was created, people
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Here's my idea for an improved links section layout. I was going to post it to the Yahoo! suggestion board, but I suspect it would gain more traction here. Back when Yahoo! Groups was created, people
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