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Virden

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More options Apr 17, 12:10 pm

From: Virden

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:10:19 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Thurs, Apr 17 2008 12:10 pm

Subject: Re: inviting members

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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

https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount

On Apr 16, 6:17 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 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.

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