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Here are some sample Admin messages you can use to send to your community.
 
 
ADMIN: TOO MANY EMAILS?


Is your inbox being swamped with messages?
Is your inbox being swamped with messages?
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Don't Panic!  And please don't leave Freegle because of it.
Don't Panic!  And please don't leave Freegle because of it.


Try setting your group membership to 'Daily Digest' and get one or two (long) emails a day containing several messages each. Or 'Special notices' which will mean you only get 'Admin' messages from the moderators.
Why not adjust how often you get your emails from us?  Go to your 'Settings' and choose whether to receive emails for items immediately or whatever suits you. You can also elect whether to receive events and volunteering emails or newsletters or specific notifications of items of interest.
 
You can edit your membership by clicking on the "edit membership" link near the top left of the page, just above the thick bar with the group name in it.
 
The edit membership link is very small and usually pale blue, so you might need to hunt for it a bit.  The email selector is "Step 2. Message Delivery"  on the edit membership page.  If you prefer to change your settings by email. Please do not choose 'No Email' as we may need to contact everyone about major changes etc..


There will probably be a few days delay in any changes you make which is Yahoo catching up, please don't keep altering your membership too often as the delay could last longer.  
You can change any of these settings as often as you like.
   
   
Don't forget your moderating team is here to help. Send us an email if you would like help with anything $groupname-owner@yahoogroups.com
Don't forget your volunteer team is here to help. Send us an email if you would like help with anything.


Most importantly, have lots of fun Freegling.  
Most importantly, have lots of fun Freegling.  


Your $Groupname Moderators
Your $Groupname Volunteer


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Hello,


Our most common complaint is that members get Too Many Emails - so here's some help with that.
ADMIN: TOO MANY EMAILS?


...to change your message delivery settings please click here:
There's been a bit of publicity this weekend and with the sudden influx of new members we thought it might be a good time to have a little word about message delivery settings (it's a fascinating subject).


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/[GROUP_NAME]/join
When you join a Freegle community you can choose how often and which emails you receive from us. The choice is yours and you can change your choices whenever and how often you like.


You will be able to choose between the following options
To change your message delivery settings go to the site and click on Settings (top right in the menu bar).  The changes will take place immediately.  You also have the facility to pause your emails for a period (in you are going on holiday or just want a break).


Individual Email
Keep in touch and keep freegling.
The option to choose if you want to get each group message and special
notice individually and immediately, as it is posted.


Daily Digest
[MODERATOR NAME]
The option to choose if you want to see all messages but limit the
amount of email you receive. We'll compile an email of up to 25
messages and send daily (special notices too!).
 
Special Notices - Receive only important email notices from the group
moderator.
 
Web Only - Please don't use this one as it means we cannot get special
announcements out to you - please choose Special Notices instead.
You'll still be able to read the list online.
 
REMEMBER TO SCROLL DOWN & CLICK SAVE CHANGES
 
There is a very helpful guide on changing your email settings here:-
 
http://freegleonestopshop.org/FAQs/toomanyemails.html
 
With warmest wishes,
 
your [GROUP NAME] Moderating Team
 
[GROUP_NAME]-owner@yahoogroups.com
 
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There's been a bit of publicity this weekend and with the sudden influx
of new members this has resulted in I thought it might be a good time
to have a little word in your ear about message delivery settings
(it's a fascinating subject)
 
When you join a yahoo group the default setting is individual messages
(which in this group means that you will be getting anything from just a few to
a hundred or more emails a day)
 
If you can't cope with this number of emails daily then there are
other options:
 
You can change your settings to DAILY DIGEST this is when all the
posts to the group are bundled together in one email that gets sent
out daily.
 
If this is still too many you can choose SPECIAL NOTICES This is the
logical option for members that want to give stuff away but aren't
really interested in reading what every one else has got to say, or
who have a yahoo account and are happy to just pop in and look at the
messages on the website.
 
To change your message delivery settings go to our home page:
 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/[GROUP_NAME]
 
Click on edit membership which is near the top in the middle, on
this new page scroll down to step 2: message delivery and the rest is
pretty obvious really.
 
If you don't have a yahoo account, or if navigating around yahoo
groups is a bit of a scary prospect then you can do this by email


you can change to Daily Digest by sending an email to :
on behalf of the volunteer team


[GROUP_NAME]-digest@yahoogroups.com,


or temporarily turn off all emails - for example when on holiday - using :
[GROUP_NAME]-nomail@yahoogroups.com.
For individual messages just send an email to :
[GROUP_NAME]-normal@yahoogroups.com
and normal service will be resumed.
or drop us a line at
[GROUP_NAME]-owner@yahoogroups.com
And we will be happy to do it for you!!
If you possibly can please go for SPECIAL NOTICES rather than NO EMAILS,
(although I know this isn't possible when changing settings via email).
Occasionally we like to send out long rambling admins a bit like this one.
Only, I'm not actually sending this as a special notice by virtue of the
fact that if you're on special notices then you don't need step by instructions
on how to change your message delivery settings do you?
There is a very helpful guide on changing your email settings here:-
http://freegleonestopshop.org/FAQs/toomanyemails.html 
Thanks
[MODERATOR NAME]


on behalf of the moderating team


[GROUP_NAME]-owner@yahoogroups.com
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Latest revision as of 11:49, 3 September 2021


Here are some sample Admin messages you can use to send to your community.


ADMIN: TOO MANY EMAILS?

Is your inbox being swamped with messages?

Don't Panic! And please don't leave Freegle because of it.

Why not adjust how often you get your emails from us? Go to your 'Settings' and choose whether to receive emails for items immediately or whatever suits you. You can also elect whether to receive events and volunteering emails or newsletters or specific notifications of items of interest.

You can change any of these settings as often as you like.

Don't forget your volunteer team is here to help. Send us an email if you would like help with anything.

Most importantly, have lots of fun Freegling.

Your $Groupname Volunteer



ADMIN: TOO MANY EMAILS?

There's been a bit of publicity this weekend and with the sudden influx of new members we thought it might be a good time to have a little word about message delivery settings (it's a fascinating subject).

When you join a Freegle community you can choose how often and which emails you receive from us. The choice is yours and you can change your choices whenever and how often you like.

To change your message delivery settings go to the site and click on Settings (top right in the menu bar). The changes will take place immediately. You also have the facility to pause your emails for a period (in you are going on holiday or just want a break).

Keep in touch and keep freegling.

[MODERATOR NAME]

on behalf of the volunteer team



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