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Re: Mailing list from a database

PS. I should have said the mod uses Outlook. I don’t! -- Peter

By Peter Rawbone · #34578 ·

Re: Mailing list from a database

Thanks Christie’s for you prompt reply. Unfortunately we’re not computer savvy and have no idea how to write a via script. Any ideas? -- Peter

By Peter Rawbone · #34577 ·

Re: Possible Downgrade to basic from Premium

Thank you Francis, no I had not. I did do some searches not sure why I missed it. I am confused regarding something on that PDF. It says premium groups created by Oct 22 2020 are $110. Should that

By John Pearce · #34576 ·

Re: Strange thing happened with a Group reply - any ideas how this could have happened? #bug

Hi Stan Firstly, no I have not noticed the problem you describe However, when did you post the question with three to five replies you did not receive? Searching this groups messages I do not see a

By Nivard Ovington · #34575 ·

Re: FAQ re: Prospective Members/Restricted Group

Bill -- Yes, but it's a little complicated. Open the Message Policies tab in your group settings. There's a checkbox in there that says "Allow Members to Download Archive." Check that box and click

By Bruce Bowman · #34574 ·

Re: FAQ re: Prospective Members/Restricted Group

Bill, >>> Is there a way allow future prospective members to receive the email/message trail from the group? Not as far as I know, but you can do it in a roundabout way using email forwarding; this

By Christos G. Psarras · #34573 ·

Re: Mailing list from a database

If you can export the databases to Excel or Access files, or copy and paste into blank XLS/MDB documents, you could then write a quick VBA script to do it in one step. Cheers, Christos

By Christos G. Psarras · #34572 ·

Re: FAQ re: Prospective Members/Restricted Group

Emails no, message trail yes. Assuming, that is, that your group has its message archive publicly visible; if it isn't then you cannot make it visible now. Making the message archive private is a one

By Chris Jones · #34571 ·

Mailing list from a database

I rather suspect I know the answer but a co-moderator has asked this and I said I’d try to find out, so: In some of our databases, we have a column entitled ‘Email address’. The co-mod would

By Peter Rawbone · #34570 ·

FAQ re: Prospective Members/Restricted Group

We have a community organization with Groups.io membership restricted to actual members. Is there a way allow future prospective members to receive the email/message trail from the group? Bill

By Bill Tracy <BillTracy3@...> · #34569 ·

Re: Can you repost a poll?

Yes. It shows as "edited message #xxxxx" I don't see why that would be a problem, if you were reasonably careful. Try adding an extra space somewhere. There are only three fields -- the Subject line,

By Bruce Bowman · #34568 ·

Re: Strange thing happened with a Group reply - any ideas how this could have happened? #bug

I think it was about spam rather than being spam itself.. Chris

By Chris Jones · #34567 ·

Re: Can you repost a poll?

Hi Bruce, I did check with one member of the group and he did not receive anything. I checked the Actviity Log and found no entries. Do you see entries in the Activty Log? Just to clarify. I did not

By John Russell · #34566 ·

Re: Strange thing happened with a Group reply - any ideas how this could have happened? #bug

Jane, no clue what may have happened, but just curious, Why are you allowing a thread like that to post to / stay in the group archives? If you know it's spam, delete the

By Christos G. Psarras · #34565 ·

Re: Strange thing happened with a Group reply - any ideas how this could have happened? #bug

This post of mine on beta may describe the source of the problem. Chris

By Chris Jones · #34564 ·

Re: Possible Downgrade to basic from Premium

Did you see the new File uploaded by Bruce? https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/files/Groups.io%20features%20%28includes%20legacy%20stuff%29.pdf Frances -- GMF wiki for help. Search box at the

By Frances · #34563 ·

Re: Strange thing happened with a Group reply - any ideas how this could have happened? #bug

Related to this, have some in this group experienced not having received emails of a post in this group? I had emailed a question to this group but do not recall ever having received subsequent posts

By Stan Gorodenski · #34562 ·

Re: Possible Downgrade to basic from Premium

I did see that page under billing in settings. So we would still have everything marked "legacy", it's just that we would have less storage space for photos, files, polls, calendar, etc? Thank you

By John Pearce · #34561 ·

Re: Strange thing happened with a Group reply - any ideas how this could have happened? #bug

You hit "reply to group". On the group homepage, or by email? Did you check "activity"? https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/reviewing-the-group-s-activity-log Frances -- GMF wiki for help.

By Frances · #34560 ·

Strange thing happened with a Group reply - any ideas how this could have happened? #bug

Hi, we had a strange occurrence on our list. In replying to a thread about a wedding email scam (where scammers are emailing performers to play for a fake wedding), one of our members had this

By Jane Valencia · #34559 ·