It depends what you mean by 'messages'. All the groups I mange only members can reply to posts. But when somebody wishes to join they are requested to email the owner to give some details so we can de

#misc

I use Pegasus Mail which sorts messages into threads based on the subject line. But it only does it on the first 32 (or whatever) characters. All these added things in the subject line (not just calen

#suggestion

Indeed, which is why I always disabled these tag lines when I used Avast. In any case, it is quite easy for the user to disable them in Avast options, although slightly hidden. I don't use Avast now,

#suggestion

I find it particularly annoying when I come in in a morning and find several emails from the same person and they all turn out to be edits of the same message. With the way my email program sorts them

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Indeed Chris, I can't recall ever seeing a sticky topic in any of the groups I am subscribed to. But only normally read posts via email, only visit the web interface to do admin tasks or attachments s

#suggestion

UTF-8 is not supported in email headers, including subject lines, as everything in the header should be plain text. But for some reason I have seen some GIO messages with UTF-8 subject lines. Dave htt

#bug

Which is the big problem with Spamcop. They are the ones who decide what servers get put on their blocklists and they not only are unwilling to tell you why but impossible to communicate with to get b

#misc

For whatever reason my hosting (1&1 Ionos) smtp servers frequently end up on Spamhaus. When it happens I can use my ISP smtp servers in most cases but it is still an annoyance as it usually takes Spam

#changelog

I agree, strongly. [ and ] are perfectly valid characters in a subject line and can be used for all sorts of reasons. The fact that they are also used to enclose the group name is irrelevant. I would

#bug

'No way ever' is true until it is proven not to be. https://grahamcluley.com/poor-password-security-mensa/ I was one of two people mentioned there who had their personal details exposed in their membe

#misc

Having just had my personal information publicly revealed on a hacked forum I would agree. Nobody but the member himself should be able to change email addresses. Dave http://davesergeant.com

#misc

Try Tom*. I do quite a lot of searches in one of my groups for TV model numbers. I always have to add a * wildcard at the end as quite often extra characters are at the end, eg 21AX2100EZ may only sho

#bug

Trying to send 10MB files via email is asking for trouble. Dave http://davesergeant.com

#bug

eg $5 for up to 10 groups, $10 for up to 25, $20 for unlimited groups, for everybody, forget about grandfathering. That would work. $5/year for EACH of my current 21 groups would be a bit different an

#suggestion

This discussion keeps going in the various threads and there seems no easy answer. Whatever, and appreciating that Mark has to make ends meet, it seems GIO is no longer the preferred home for many hob

#suggestion

Mark obviously has the actual figures, but of the 21 groups I am subscribed to only 2 are below 100 members, 11 below the 500 Premium level and the biggest has 5000 members. Virtually all volunteer gr

#suggestion

I have not read Marks' proposal in detail but from what I have it seems incredibly complicated. Although existing groups are grandfathered I can well imagine the case where an owner starts a new group

#suggestion

groups.io, as was Yahoo, revolves around a very large number of totally informal groups whose members have only one thing in common - an interest in the subject of the group. I am in 21 of those (whic

#update

It really comes down to the limit of 100 for free groups is too low. Mark seems to think the average size of these is 60 or so but even in the groups I am member of (all free and non profit as far as

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Obviously some very different views on this issue. Of the three groups I am owner of: A national amateur radio group (with plenty of international members) which has annual subs. 900 members of which

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