I have been trying to invite members into my group but it keeps
getting flagged. I am setting up a group for an organisation which
contains 7000 odd members. Anyone have any ideas how i can add them
without it getting flagged?
I have a similar problem. Our group was orginally on yahoo groups and
we went to change our membership to google and it was flagged for
review when we went to add the members directly, to save them going
through having to sign up. The request was rejected by Google Groups,
even though I supplied the url of our previous group and explained
that we were transfering our group.
I then sent everyone invites to sign up - but members are having huge
problems trying to verify their email accounts for non-gmail
addresses.
I have subsequently directly signed up 18 members - but that is all I
have been able to do (any subsequent requests have also been
rejected).
The problem is that google offers no explaination as to why a request
was rejected besides the generic email which is non-specific to your
circumstances. Nor do they have a contact email address to get help.
I understand that google has the flagging mechanism to prevent spam,
but it would be very useful if members could just accept an invite
without having to verify their email address (perhaps just an email
sent back that a member has to click on to confirm).
If anyone has a solution I would also be greatly interested.
If you tried to add or invite more than ten members at a time, that
automatically flagged you as a potential spammer and your lists
because subject to review by GGSupport. Add or Invite 10 or less at a
time to stay out of trouble with GGS. It may seem tedious, but it is
actually quicker than trying to buck the system and get your lists
flagged for review and then wait for review and the chance that your
request will be rejected or turned into Invites.
Now that you have been flagged as a potential spammer, it may be
quicker for you to temporarily open your new Ggroup so anyone can join
to bypass the Invites and Adds, then close it as you choose.
Anyone with any valid we-mail address from any ISP can easily get a
Google Groups account and become a full member of any Google Group. IF
they simply follow the directions carefully. Most of my members
(several thousand) do not use GMail... (its full of bugs, collects
personal information and has occasional failures) and all have Google
Groups accounts.
Inform your prospective and current members that they can easily get
an Google Groups account using this URL
> I have a similar problem. Our group was orginally on yahoo groups and
> we went to change our membership to google and it was flagged for
> review when we went to add the members directly, to save them going
> through having to sign up. The request was rejected by Google Groups,
> even though I supplied the url of our previous group and explained
> that we were transfering our group.
> I then sent everyone invites to sign up - but members are having huge
> problems trying to verify their email accounts for non-gmail
> addresses.
> I have subsequently directly signed up 18 members - but that is all I
> have been able to do (any subsequent requests have also been
> rejected).
> The problem is that google offers no explaination as to why a request
> was rejected besides the generic email which is non-specific to your
> circumstances. Nor do they have a contact email address to get help.
> I understand that google has the flagging mechanism to prevent spam,
> but it would be very useful if members could just accept an invite
> without having to verify their email address (perhaps just an email
> sent back that a member has to click on to confirm).
> If anyone has a solution I would also be greatly interested.
An even easier solution would be to post the url of the Google group
and post it through the Yahoo group, telling members to sign up for
the new group there.
> If you tried to add or invite more than ten members at a time, that
> automatically flagged you as a potential spammer and your lists
> because subject to review by GGSupport. Add or Invite 10 or less at a
> time to stay out of trouble with GGS. It may seem tedious, but it is
> actually quicker than trying to buck the system and get your lists
> flagged for review and then wait for review and the chance that your
> request will be rejected or turned into Invites.
> Now that you have been flagged as a potential spammer, it may be
> quicker for you to temporarily open your new Ggroup so anyone can join
> to bypass the Invites and Adds, then close it as you choose.
> Anyone with any valid we-mail address from any ISP can easily get a
> Google Groups account and become a full member of any Google Group. IF
> they simply follow the directions carefully. Most of my members
> (several thousand) do not use GMail... (its full of bugs, collects
> personal information and has occasional failures) and all have Google
> Groups accounts.
> Inform your prospective and current members that they can easily get
> an Google Groups account using this URL
> > I have a similar problem. Our group was orginally on yahoo groups and
> > we went to change our membership to google and it was flagged for
> > review when we went to add the members directly, to save them going
> > through having to sign up. The request was rejected by Google Groups,
> > even though I supplied the url of our previous group and explained
> > that we were transfering our group.
> > I then sent everyone invites to sign up - but members are having huge
> > problems trying to verify their email accounts for non-gmail
> > addresses.
> > I have subsequently directly signed up 18 members - but that is all I
> > have been able to do (any subsequent requests have also been
> > rejected).
> > The problem is that google offers no explaination as to why a request
> > was rejected besides the generic email which is non-specific to your
> > circumstances. Nor do they have a contact email address to get help.
> > I understand that google has the flagging mechanism to prevent spam,
> > but it would be very useful if members could just accept an invite
> > without having to verify their email address (perhaps just an email
> > sent back that a member has to click on to confirm).
> > If anyone has a solution I would also be greatly interested.- Hide quoted text -
I've set up a number of groups on google, and have ended up extremely
frustrated because adding members directly gets flagged. I've had
situations where even inviting a reasonable number of members gets
flagged, and subsequently rejected, with no further comment.
Honestly, I gave up and started a group today on Yahoo, simply because
Google has made it such a pain in the you know what to add members.
Yahoo allowed me to invite 80 some members, with no explanation of why
I wanted to add the members, who the members where, how I knew them,
whether I'd been social with them, what brand of computer they use,
etc. etc. etc.
> I have a similar problem. Our group was orginally on yahoo groups and
> we went to change our membership to google and it was flagged for
> review when we went to add themembersdirectly, to save them going
> through having to sign up. The request was rejected by Google Groups,
> even though I supplied the url of our previous group and explained
> that we were transfering our group.
Your experience sounds similar to many posts here. Apparently, not
only will you get flagged for Adding or Inviting more than 10 at a
time, after so many such incidents, you get flagged no matter how many
you list. I gave up on Adds long ago to avoid the harassing Google
Groups automatically does to push you into using Invitaitons only. I
send Invitations only less than 10 at a time and those wanting to join
must cope with the poorly worded instructions in Invitations as best
they can. I give them 2 weeks to do so, including getting a Google
Account, then unsubscribe them if they stay in the Open Invitations
list longer than that.
> I've set up a number of groups on google, and have ended up extremely
> frustrated because adding members directly gets flagged. I've had
> situations where even inviting a reasonable number of members gets
> flagged, and subsequently rejected, with no further comment.
> Honestly, I gave up and started a group today on Yahoo, simply because
> Google has made it such a pain in the you know what to add members.
> Yahoo allowed me to invite 80 some members, with no explanation of why
> I wanted to add the members, who the members where, how I knew them,
> whether I'd been social with them, what brand of computer they use,
> etc. etc. etc.
> On Apr 16, 8:17 pm, Larissa Harrison wrote:
> > I have a similar problem. Our group was orginally on yahoo groups and
> > we went to change our membership to google and it was flagged for
> > review when we went to add themembersdirectly, to save them going
> > through having to sign up. The request was rejected by Google Groups,
> > even though I supplied the url of our previous group and explained
> > that we were transfering our group.
> An even easier solution would be to post the url of the Google group
> and post it through the Yahoo group, telling members to sign up for
> the new group there.
