Post in Verification and Registration

Feb 29 03:32 UTC

I have made some changes to the email settings page, on each user's
profile, and registration. Hopefully, these changes to OnlineGroups.Net
will make the system easier to use for administrators and normal users
alike.

The email settings page is the most visible change for existing users. The
much-maligned layout of the page has been changed to make it easier to use.
This is especially true if the user has multiple email addresses associated
with his or her profile. As well as the cosmetic change to the page, an
email address can be in a new state: unverified.

An unverified email address cannot be used as a default delivery address,
or as a specific delivery address for a group. When a user adds an email
address to his or her profile a message will be sent to that address,
verifying that the address is allowed to be used on OnlineGroups.Net. Until
the user has responded to the message, the address will remain in the
"unverified" state.

The steps involved with registration using the Web have changed for the
better. The online help for registration has not been updated (yet) but
the new registration system is documented in the following post
  http://groupserver.org/r/post/1KOtevr6QTbZtnO4PBMuVu
We do not have nicknames going yet. More on that later!

The pages that administrators use to add users to groups have also changed
subtly. Hopefully it will not cause any problems.

Kind regards,
  Michael