Adding Members in Bulk
From:
Kirsty Wild
Date:
May 07 01:39 UTC
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Thanks for that. Hey, I just have one further question in relation to
this: I am just experimenting with adding bulk members, so I asked a
couple of people if I could send them an invite, I uploaded the csv
file, and all went well, but the two people ended up receiving two
different emails. One received the email saying 'Click on the following
link to accept the invitation to join ....'; while the other person got
an email saying 'Welcome! You are now a member of ......'.
I would like them to get the first email, inviting them to join, rather
than email saying they are already joined up (without being given the
opportunity to accept an invite!). Any ideas what might be happening
here?
Thanks heaps,
Kirsty
Kirsty Wild
Researcher
Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE)
Massey University
09 414 0800 ext. 41357
<email obscured>
www.shore.ac.nz
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:<email obscured>]
Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 11:57 a.m.
To: OnlineGroups.Net Administrators
Subject: [OGN Admins] Adding Members in Bulk
Hi All,
An administrator asked if it is possible to add a message to the
invitation that is sent to new group members, if the administrator
uploads the details of multiple members using a CSV file. No, it is not
possible. This is a deliberate omission on our part: while the message
could be used to send cordial greetings to many new group members, it
can also be used to send spam. It is also possible to send spam with the
normal Add a New Member page, but it is awkward to do this, so it is
less likely to be abused.
Users tend to accept invitations more readily if they are sent a message
first, telling them what is about to happen. If you are adding lots of
people by CSV, then you have little choice but to send a bulk email to
all the new members (using the BCC-field). If you want to write an
individual message to each user, then there is little choice but to use
the standard Add a New Member page.
Kind regards,
Michael
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