Re: [IRCA] RFC - creation of a full featured "Groups.io" medium-wave user group/e-mail list

[Mark Pettifor <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only substantive negative comment or warning I've seen from any of 
the 4 or 5 groups I belong to that have done the migration over the past 
6 months or so is the following from Alberto, who runs the ELAD group 
(and there may be a setting available to group admins that could turn 
the "feature" off...something to check on, Colin?):

--+------

It is maybe worthwhile to repeat what I wrote some time ago...

If you do not like a message, simply delete it... do NOT mark it as 
spam...
This in your own interest... the platform groups.io  has implemented a 
very clever
and intelligent feature... if a member marks a message as spam, he is 
automatically
unsubscribed from the group... it is not to the members of the group to 
decide
whether a message is spam... that's a task for the moderators and/or 
owner...

Marking a message as spam can have the negative side effect that the 
address
of the group is put on some blacklists by some paranoid self-appointed 
guardians
of the 'net...

--+------

I should add that further investigation showed the above was only a 
problem if you marked a message as spam while using the web page 
interface at groups.io. If you marked something as spam from an email 
client, there was no issue. And based on further comments, I'm pretty 
sure Alberto was being sarcastic when he used the phrase "...the 
platform groups.io has implemented a very clever and intelligent 
feature..."  :^)

All of my experience on the groups.io web interface has been very 
positive so far, especially with the search function, and the 
organization of content.

Best regards,

Mark Pettifor
Goshen, IN


On 2018-02-16 11:36 am, R. Colin Newell wrote:
> I have just migrated the venerable Kenwood R2000 Yahoo user group
> (established in the year 2000!) over to the new Groups.io - with 400+
> subscribers.
>
> It is a full featured e-mail list/web discussion forum that has, 
> amongst
> other things:
>
> *no message size limit, file upload, photo upload and sub-group 
> creation*
>
> I have a great desire to create a medium-wave DX users group on here --
> without an intent of replacing what
> we have here - BUT: to have a place on a more modern system with no 
> archaic
> file size limits and the
> ability to actually post audio files and pictures - and have active
> discussion groups - for free... is too much to resist.
>
> My first instinct is to just call it the medium-wave-dx group. No more. 
> No
> less.
>
> I welcome all comments, positive and negative, rotten tomatoes, fresh
> fruit... show me what you got! :-)
>
> Curious - Have a look.
>
> Group Email Addresses
>
>    - Post: Kenwood-R2000@xxxxxxxxx
>    - Subscribe: Kenwood-R2000+subscribe@xxxxxxxxx
>    - Unsubscribe: Kenwood-R2000+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxx
>    - Group Owner: Kenwood-R2000+owner@xxxxxxxxx
>    - Help: Kenwood-R2000+help@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
> --
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