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Site Features

With OnlineGroups.Net, you can have your groups on a free custom online groups site of your own, with all of the following features.

  • Configurable Domain All sites are started at a subdomain of onlinegroups.net. The subdomain can be any valid string (within our Terms of Use). A site for "Tortoise Wheels", for example could have the subdomain "tortoisewheels.onlinegroups.net". All online groups at standard sites have email addresses ending in "@onlinegroups.net". You can also have your online groups site, at your own domain.
  • Configurable Site Title The site title can be any text (up to 255 characters) that you like (within the Terms of Use).
  • Configurable Home Page Introduction Text Text that appears to anonymous and logged-in users on the site home page (links, images and some HTML are supported).
  • Latest Topics Summary The site home page displays a list (with an Atom Feed) of the latest topics posted to groups that are visible to the current user.
  • Site Administration Tools editing site options and creating online groups.
  • Site Search Search for text in news items, static content, messages and files (the metadata and, for common formats, the contents).

Sites contain a link to http://onlinegroups.net in the footer of all web pages, and in the footer of all emails.

Custom Domain

If you have your own domain, you can have your online groups site such as yourdomain.com (or at a subdomain such as groups.yourdomain.com). Your site will then be at http://yourdomain.com, and the groups on your site would have email addresses ending in @yourdomain.com (or @groups.yourdomain.com).

To set up your online groups site at your domain, the ISP that manages the DNS for your domain will have two make two simple changes to set up the new subdomain. Please check that your domain complies with our Terms of Use, and then ask your ISP to make the two settings listed below.

  • Set the A record (or CNAME) to 'onlinegroups.net'.
  • Set the MX record at 'smtp.onlinegroups.net'.

Once this is complete, please and we will configure your online groups site to work at your domain.

Site Administration Features

A "Site Administrator" can configure site options and create online groups, configure their properties and appoint "Group Administrators". Site Administrators have all the abilities that Group Managers do.

Configuring Online Groups

A Site Administrator is able to:

  • determine the visibility of the group and its Messages and Files area
  • determine whether the group can be joined by anyone without approval or only by invitation
  • enable restrictions to the frequency of posts
  • define the name, purpose, membership and other statements that appear on the group's "Charter" page