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Custom Domain Now Available on Free Sites From: Dan Randow Date: Jul 04 02:28 UTC Short link

I am pleased to let you know that you can now have a custom domain on a free
online groups site. This enables you to customise a free site to better reflect
your organisation.

When you start a site with OnlineGroups.Net, it uses a subdomain of
onlinegroups.net. As an example, our demo site uses the subdomain
'demosite.onlinegroups.net'.
  http://demosite.onlinegroups.net/

We deliberately chose our domain so that you it would make sense with your
brand. For example, if your subdomain is 'citydanceclub.onlinegroups', this
looks like the online groups for the City Dance Club.

You may however want your site to look even more strongly associated with your
organisation. If you have your own domain, you can have your online groups site
on that domain, for free.

Continuing my fictitious example, if you owned the domain 'citydanceclub.net',
you could have your online groups site at the domain http://citydanceclub.net
and with email addresses ending in '@citydanceclub.net'.

If you already have a website at your domain, you can put your online groups
site at a subdomain of your domain, such as 'http://groups.citydanceclub.net',
with group  addresses ending in '@citydanceclub.net'.

Here is a real example of an online groups site with a custom domain. The folks
at PeopleAggregator
  http://www.peopleaggregator.net
use an online groups site to provide forums for users and  developers of their
software. Because they want their online groups site to reflect their own
brand, they have put the site at a subdomain of their domain.
  http://lists.peopleaggregator.org/
This way, their online groups are at these addresses.
  http://lists.peopleaggregator.org/groups/pa-users
  http://lists.peopleaggregator.org/groups/pa-dev

The groups on the site use the custom domain, too. The email addresses of the
two PeopleAggregator online groups are as follows.
  <email obscured>
  <email obscured>

If you would like a custom domain on your online groups site, please use the
following instructions for setting up a custom domain.
  http://onlinegroups.net/sites/features/index.html#custom_domain

Inviting People to Join a Group From: Richard Waid Date: Jun 25 09:34 UTC Short link

Anette:

My apologies for the delay in responding to your questions.

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:29 +0200, hessenhexe wrote:
> > Currently the limit is set to 20 emails in 2 days, per person, per
> > group.
>
> i dont understand
>
> can one member send 20 or all members together?

Each member can send 20 emails in 2 days. We may raise this limit in the
near future.

> Our limits are not intended to impose restrictions on our users,
> > but rather to prevent abuse by spammers. We intend to review these
> > restrictions from time to time, particularly if they are annoying to our
> > users!
>
> we talk about this in our group because in the past we had much more mails

Thanks for the feedback, we will certainly take it on-board.

> can i as member hessenhexe join other emailgroups at your homepage?

Yes, assuming the groups are public. You can login with your email
address at any onlinegroups.net site, or into the main onlinegroups.net
site.

How to Leave this Group From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 25 07:29 UTC Short link

Until today, everyone who started a site with OnlineGroups.Net was
automatically joined to this group (OnlineGroups.Net Administrators). We have
realised that this was a mistake, and corrected it. Joining this group is now
optional when starting a site.

I apologise for any annoyance that receiving emails from this group has caused
you.

If you do not want to be in this group, here are two ways you can leave.

1: Send an email to unsubscribe from this group, by clicking the following
link.
  mailto:<email obscured>?Subject=unsubscribe

2: Click the following link (you will need to be logged in).
http://onlinegroups.net/Scripts/set/subscribe_group?division_id=ogs&group_id=ogn_admins&unsubscribe=1

If you would like help with this, let us know.
  <email obscured>

Inviting People to Join a Group From: hessenhexe Date: Jun 22 18:58 UTC Short link

hello richard


thank your for email

Inviting People to Join a Group From: Richard Waid Date: Jun 21 23:50 UTC Short link

Hi Anette:

On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:54 +0200, hessenhexe wrote:
> how many mails are allowed to send in one day?

Currently the limit is set to 20 emails in 2 days, per person, per
group. Our limits are not intended to impose restrictions on our users,
but rather to prevent abuse by spammers. We intend to review these
restrictions from time to time, particularly if they are annoying to our
users!

> is this the email group of leaders of groups?

That's correct -- this is the group for group administrators to ask any
questions they might have about running their OnlineGroups.Net site.

Thanks for your questions,

Richard Waid
Technical Lead
OnlineGroups.Net

Inviting People to Join a Group From: hessenhexe Date: Jun 21 16:47 UTC Short link

hello
thank your for email


how many mails are allowed to send in one day?


anette









is this the email group of leaders of groups?






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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Randow" <<email obscured>>
To: <<email obscured>>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [OGN Admins] Inviting People to Join a Group


> Hi Anette,
>
>> sorry i could not find.
>
> You have to be a Group Administrator to see the Group Admin link. If you
> are not already, you will have to ask the Site Administrator to make you
> a Group Administrator.
>
>> is there a email i can send to friends with a link
>> and with the link they can join?
>
> Just email them a link to the home page of the group. If you look at the
> home page of this group,
>   http://onlinegroups.net/groups/ogn_admins
> for example, you will see a link that to "register and join" in the
> "Membership and Joining" section (you have to be logged out to see that).
>
> If you have more than one group on your site, it is better to email a
> link to the "Groups" page, like this one on our site.
>   http://onlinegroups.net/groups/
> This shows links to register and join all the public groups on the site.
>
> Dan
>
> --
>
> Dan Randow
> Projects Director
> OnlineGroups.Net
> ph +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928
> Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St
> PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140
> Aotearoa (New Zealand)
> http://onlinegroups.net
> http://groupserver.org
> skype: vonrandow
>
> -----------------------------------------
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>
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Inviting People to Join a Group From: hessenhexe Date: Jun 18 18:08 UTC Short link

hello

thank you
for email

i made the mistake
i was looking at the domain

i found it at the subdomain


i put in there email ads

is this the right way?

Inviting People to Join a Group From: hessenhexe Date: Jun 18 18:08 UTC Short link

hello

thank you for email


i dont understand



what did i do wrong?



anette


from germany





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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Czacc_Tayylor" <<email obscured>>
To: <<email obscured>>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [OGN Admins] Inviting People to Join a Group


> why are you sending my nine year old sonemails ???????
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dan Randow <<email obscured>>
> To: <email obscured>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:02:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [OGN Admins] Inviting People to Join a Group
>
> Hi Anette,
>
>> sorry i could not find.
>
> You have to be a Group Administrator to see the Group Admin link. If you
> are not already, you will have to ask the Site Administrator to make you
> a Group Administrator.
>
>> is there a email i can send to friends with a link
>> and with the link they can join?
>
> Just email them a link to the home page of the group. If you look at the
> home page of this group,
> http://onlinegroups.net/groups/ogn_admins
> for example, you will see a link that to "register and join" in the
> "Membership and Joining" section (you have to be logged out to see that).
>
> If you have more than one group on your site, it is better to email a
> link to the "Groups" page, like this one on our site.
> http://onlinegroups.net/groups/
> This shows links to register and join all the public groups on the site.
>
> Dan
>
> --
>
> Dan Randow
> Projects Director
> OnlineGroups.Net
> ph +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928
> Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St
> PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140
> Aotearoa (New Zealand)
> http://onlinegroups.net
> http://groupserver.org
> skype: vonrandow
>
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Apply Now! 2008 Gwangju Asian Human Rights Folk School From: hessenhexe Date: Jun 18 18:08 UTC Short link

hello pete

thank you for email

did i see it right

the invitation ist only for people from asia?






anette from germany


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Inviting People to Join a Group From: hessenhexe Date: Jun 18 16:33 UTC Short link

HELLO DAN

thank you for your email.

sorry i could not find


i got on start page

then i log in

as hessenhexe


then i can see


groups and blog

and i klick groups


but in cannot find

my group

wennesnichtgeht


and also i cannot find


the button



group admin.



i only see your group:

Inviting People to Join a Group From: brad_czacctayylor Date: Jun 18 09:06 UTC Short link

why are you sending my nine year old sonemails ???????

Apply Now! 2008 Gwangju Asian Human Rights Folk School From: Pete Rahon Date: Jun 18 08:06 UTC Short link

Greetings!

Please check the link of our call for application for the 2008 Gwangju Asian
Human Rights Folk School

The deadline is 20 June 2008.

Here is the link


http://eng.518.org/main.html?TM18MF=B04&bc_table=ENG_NOTICE&form_act=V&bnum=45&page=1


good wishes,
pete

Inviting People to Join a Group From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 18 08:03 UTC Short link

Hi Anette,

> sorry i could not find.

You have to be a Group Administrator to see the Group Admin link. If you
are not already, you will have to ask the Site Administrator to make you
a Group Administrator.

> is there a email i can send to friends with a link
> and with the link they can join?

Just email them a link to the home page of the group. If you look at the
home page of this group,
   http://onlinegroups.net/groups/ogn_admins
for example, you will see a link that to "register and join" in the
"Membership and Joining" section (you have to be logged out to see that).

If you have more than one group on your site, it is better to email a
link to the "Groups" page, like this one on our site.
   http://onlinegroups.net/groups/
This shows links to register and join all the public groups on the site.

Inviting People to Join a Group From: hessenhexe Date: Jun 18 07:50 UTC Short link

sorry i could not find.

is there a email i can send to friends with a link
and with the link they can join?

Inviting People to Join a Group From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 18 06:01 UTC Short link

I am often asked "How do I invite people to my group?", so I have added
this to the FAQ.
   http://onlinegroups.net/support/faq/#invitepeople

In public groups, people can just join themselves. Whatever the privacy
setting of the group, site and group administrators can invite people to
join using the Group Admin "Add Members" features. (If you are going to
"Add Members" however, it is a good idea to email people first, to let
them know what to expect.)

OnlineGroups.Net releases GroupServer as open source From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 17 03:23 UTC Short link

Hi Folks,

The software the powers OnlineGroups.Net sites and groups has been
released as open source. It's called GroupServer.
   http://groupserver.org

The service we provide here at OnlineGroups.Net makes it easy to take
advantage of sites and groups powered by GroupServer, because we do all
the administration. If you'd prefer to host your own GroupServer
installation, you can download and install it yourself. Furthermore, for
the technically inclined, access to the source code enables you to see
exactly how our system is handling your data.

OnlineGroups.Net Technical Lead Richard Waid has just posted about this
on our blog.

http://blog.onlinegroups.net/2008/06/17/groupserver-the-open-source-software-behind-onlinegroupsnet/

Deleting groups From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 13 06:08 UTC Short link

As you can see from this topic,
  http://onlinegroups.net/r/topic/74weDBD6hrRppYcYcumeEG
site administrators frequently ask how they can delete a group.

I've added this to the site administration FAQ.
  http://onlinegroups.net/support/faq/#deletegroup

Currently, there is no way that a site administrator can delete a group. You
can, however make the group secret, and remove all the users, so that only you
will ever see it.

Yes, it will make your site look a little untidy, to you, but it will also
serve as a reminder of the _many_ things that you see, that others can not see.

Bounce-Handling From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 12 23:38 UTC Short link

Occasionally, we are asked how OnlineGroups.Net handles bouncing email
addresses, so I have added this to the Administration FAQ.
   http://onlinegroups.net/support/faq/#bounce

If a group member's email address bounces, they are immediately informed
about it, at any other verified email addresses that they have.

If an address bounces on five different days in any sixty day period,
the address is set to unverified. If the group member regains access to
the email address, they can log in and reverify the address.

Editing the Site Home Page From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 12 05:32 UTC Short link

A reminder to site administrators that you can edit the text on your site's
home page. To do this, log in and visit your site's home page, where you will
now see a link to the "edit site introduction" feature, as well as a list of
other things that you can do as site administrator. (While improving the site
administration links on the home page today, we found, and fixed, a link was
rather broken — my apologies for that).

Using the "edit site introduction" feature, you can add headings, paragraphs,
lists, links, and images to your site home page. There is an example of this on
our Demo site.
  http://demosite.onlinegroups.net/

Until today, many site home pages were blank, unless the site administrator had
added a site intro. Today, we added the following text to all sites with blank
home pages, so that vistors to the sites can find out something, even if it is
just a little, about the site.

  Welcome to this online groups site. This site can be used
  to create public, private or secret online groups. Online
  groups are like a list server and a message board with
  file-sharing and chat.

  When people join groups and post to them, those posts will
  appear on this page (if the messages in those groups are
  visible to the public, or to whoever is logged in).

  This site was created using the service provided by
  OnlineGroups.Net.

From today, all new sites will have this default text on the home page.

If your site has no visible posts, for example because all your groups are
private or secret, the site introduction will flow across the full width of the
home page. This provides a good opportunity to add some text that explains your
site to new visitors.

System Status From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 04 23:07 UTC Short link

Hi Folks,

You may have noticed that your online groups site web interface has been
somewhat slow at times, over the last week. We have been working on some major
improvements, which are now complete. I apologise for any slowness you have
experienced.

I expect you will find that your site is loading quickly now.

Please note that email-based message-processing was not affected by the
problem.

with regards,

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