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Strange AOL attack? #misc

There seem to be a lot of new and/or pending members with AOL addresses that follow a pattern, NameNamexxx, coming from someone in NJ at IP 104.xxx.xxx.xxx. This seems to have started about the 17th.

By Duane ·

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Group owners manual reviewers #misc

Hi All, I have a first, rough draft of a group owner's manual. I'd like to get it in front of a couple experienced group owners for feedback: is it going in the right direction, are there any glaring

By Mark Fletcher ·

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Ad blocker warning 4 #misc

Hi All, A group owner was having a problem. There were some links in messages that were just not showing up in their browser, both when reviewing pending messages on the website and when viewing the a

By Mark Fletcher ·

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App is starting to become accessible #misc

Hi All, A lot of work on accessibility was just merged into the app. It's not complete (like the app itself), but many of the screens and menus should be accessible now. If you use a screen reader on

By Mark Fletcher ·

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Change DMARC behavior for p=none 9 #misc

Hi All, Right now, we munge the From line of messages for people who have DMARC records of p=reject or p=quarantine. We do not do that for people who have DMARC records of p=none. I propose changing t

By Mark Fletcher ·

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Almost completed version of the Owners and Moderators manual 3 #misc

Hi All, Our tireless and fearless tech writer Nina has mostly completed the Owners and Moderators manual and it is ready for review. I have uploaded a PDF of it to the Files section of the https://bet

By Mark Fletcher ·

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Mark in the time of COVID-19 18 #misc

Hi All, Just a quick note that, like I'm sure with all of you, my productivity is taking a hit right now. Amongst all the craziness, our kids' school is closed for at least 3 weeks, and we're also dea

By Mark Fletcher ·

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New Groups.io Help Center now online 3 #misc

A new, centralized Groups.io Help Center is accessible online at https://groups.io/helpcenter. The Groups.io Members Manual (for all of us who use Groups.io's services) and the Groups.io Owners Manual

By West Coast Compañeros Staff ·

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Account anomaly? #misc

While doing a test, in an attempt to resolve a question on GMF, I intentionally created an account using a non-existent email address, including setting a password. I immediately got the red bouncing

By Duane ·

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FW: [GMF] Spammer attacking multiple groups 3 #misc

Hi Mark, I think you might want to do something about this, as it’s been happening to several lists. Cheers, Joseph

By Joseph Lee ·

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[GMF] Spammer attacking multiple groups #misc

Joseph, well I'm not Mark, I don't think there's much he can do. Except mandate everybody to approve their subscribers. And/or have their message limits set to whatever. I know it makes more work for

By Joseph Hudson ·

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Reporting a pending subscriber 27 #misc

Hi All, For those of you with restricted groups, if I added a feature where you could report someone who had applied to your group that you thought was a spammer, would you use that feature? It would

By Mark Fletcher ·

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New notifications proposal 38 #misc

Hi All, I've started working on notifications again. I had not been very happy with my last proposal, from before the Yahoo Groups apocalypse. I think I've come up with a better solution. Please let m

By Mark Fletcher ·

#misc

safari warns groups.io certificate expired, site "may be impersonating" groups.io etc. 30 #misc

I can log into groups.io on firefox today but not safari, which warns me that the site "may be impersonating" groups.io and has certificate that "expired 1 day ago." Just a heads up.

By J_Catlady ·

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Missing entries in Notices list when sending a message #misc

Hi, I'm raising this as #misc as I'm not sure if it's a bug or not. When sending a message to a member from the membership list my drop-down Notices field only lists 5 of the 14 messages I have define

By Andy Wedge ·

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allow manual unmoderation of timed-out topics #misc

I mentioned this awhile back but can no longer find the thread and I think it's important: It is currently impossible to manually unmoderate a topic that went moderated due to group time-out. I am rep

By J_Catlady ·

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Testing notifications 31 #misc

Hi All, Before I roll out the new moderator notifications (for chat/files/photos/wikis/databases), I'd like some feedback on them. If you're interested, please contact me off-list and I'll enable them

By Mark Fletcher ·

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Notifications about your own actions 7 #misc

Hi All, The existing moderator notifications (pending subscriber/message/etc) are always sent to the appropriate moderators, both email and push notifications (if you have them configured). When I set

By Mark Fletcher ·

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Clarification of account preference 2 #misc

On the Account > Preferences page, the last panel contains a box for "I always want copies of my own emails". There's been some difference of opinion as to what this relates to and what it means. I be

By Duane ·

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Database Map on Free Group -Not sure if this is a bug or feature 3 #misc #suggestion

I was experimenting with my specialists' database and I exported it from my Premium group as a json I imported it into an experimental free group When it finally completed processing it showed a map a

By Bob Bellizzi ·

#misc #suggestion