| i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | miraqe7 | 11/07/31 22:54 | send the answer to my mail - mir...@gmail.com .... thanks. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | aygul | 11/08/01 1:33 | To invite members to your group: 1. Click the Invite members link on your group's homepage. 2. Under the Invite members by email tab, add your new members' names and email addresses. 3. Write an invitation message to introduce your group to your invi |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Sune | 11/08/01 9:23 | @aygul: The INVITE MEMBER option is not the same as the ADD MEMBER. I manage several lists for organisations, that use the mailinglist for internal communication (hundreds of members). Members was added after joining the organisation - and paying the |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | aygul | 11/08/01 13:25 | @Sune: Last week Google has made several changes to the new Google Groups based on user feedback to improve your discussion experience.Among them are spam improvements. Google removed the option to “Add members directly” to http://googlegroups.com groups si |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Sune | 11/08/03 2:12 | @aygul: Yes, I did read this announcement. The Spam problem is minimal in my experinece, and the "solution" is far, far more disturbing, than the problem. I suggest Google to find other methods to fight eventually spam-problems, and keep the essentia |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tyamadajp | 11/08/03 22:36 | Agrees with the poster 100%. Why can't Google just do as Yahoo! does? Yahoo! limits number of members that can be added each day, and that's what I call a "solution". Just think of following usecase: "John, could you add these new 50 members of th |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Monojit Banerjee | 11/08/04 4:02 | Google Groups has created a lot of irritation for me (as mailing list manager) and my organisation by this decision to remove the "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" feature. I have to manage many groups (of different categories of stakeholders) and the number |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | ynos1234 | 11/08/04 5:34 | PLEASE RESTORE "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" FEATURE because i too face the same crisis. i have made a group for my class mates for sending the notes and the solutions that teachers gave us. another problem i faced is that if u invite a friend in yahoo the |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | alexgillis | 11/08/04 6:21 | PLEASE RESTORE "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" FEATURE +1 |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | margot12345 | 11/08/04 6:57 | i agree with the posters above. i'm an intern at a small nonprofit in washington dc and i'm in charge of adding members to the listserv. our ability to communicate directly with people involved in our organization is now compromised because of this d |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | debralcamp | 11/08/04 11:02 | I am another agreeing!! I was just changing over an entire school from yahoo groups and now don't want to because of having to deal with the invitations and people not getting the emails. I will continue to use yahoo until the feature is restored! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | AmericanPresident | 11/08/04 16:24 | First they link the business account to our personal account and make it a mind game to be logged into both at the same time, now this! I am going to join the Tea Party and start taking hostages (namely the American economy) soon. Please bring back |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Ken Sko | 11/08/04 18:06 | Please restore the Add Members Directly feature. I agree with all of the comments listed above. It's not possible to keep following up with every member of the group to ensure that they accept the invitation. As an administrator of several groups, it |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Ken Sko | 11/08/04 18:25 | I found another problem with the new functionality. If you send someone an invitation to join a Google Group, you can't send someone another invitation. When you go to invite members, it will says "X invitations not sent, because these people are al |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | febec | 11/08/04 21:08 | not only i cannot add members to the group i manage but the invitation i sent are not being received.... google should restore the option that let managers add members. i wonder if invitations are only being sent to gmail addresses? very annoying a |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | user-adm | 11/08/04 23:55 | yes... i agree with all the posts above... i think with this "decision", google has pissed of MANY lists admin when they are asked to insert email address on the fly... we cannot just sit there and wait for people to accept the invitation, especially |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Nairobi | 11/08/05 5:00 | Please bring the "add members directly" option back. I created a group at the beginning of July and have added lots of people but now I have invited so many more and people are complaining that they've never gotten the invite or they are slow to open |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | febec | 11/08/05 5:58 | I am upset that Google don't bother responding here. My group is small, but using a group type communication is important to us. i am seriously considering leaving google and trying something different. looking for recomandation for other groups? i k |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | KeithNeill | 11/08/05 7:33 | Ditto. My particular group is a jazz newsletter, and people give me their email addresses at gigs etc. The "typical" member is elderly and is not particularly IT literate; in fact I was talking to someone the other day whose email had been set up b |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Francisco Aguayo | 11/08/05 10:14 | PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE RESTORE "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" FEATURE |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | befcvt | 11/08/05 11:57 | Out of support, I am going to add my vote as well to add this feature back in. As another poster had mentioned, I also run a group where many members are elderly, non-computer types. I work for a church and we send our prayer requests to a group of |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | wichak | 11/08/05 21:55 | Please recover "Add member directly" feature. Please use confirmation code to avoid spam instead of feature removing |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Greenymeenie | 11/08/05 22:42 | I manage a group for a bunch of lazy gamers. They cant be bothered to accept an invitation so I have to manually add every one. Google made it impossible for me to get people involved into the community. Please bring back the Add Member Function. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | paobolanos68 | 11/08/06 21:39 | DEAR GOOGLE! I've been a big fan of google and googlegroups. I, too, manage several groups in google. I teach in university and I use email lists, such as yahoo and google, to make sure that my students receive announcements, especially in emergen |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | awkeating | 11/08/07 5:06 | Dear Google,I manage 4 groups for my hospital and have been doing so without problem for 3 years. Now that you have removed the "Add member directly" option I must migrate away from your service. Unless of course you announce its return. Too bad beca |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | docsnowridersinc | 11/08/07 6:06 | PLEASE ACTIVATE "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" FUNCTION. I'm having the same issue where member's do not recieve the invite and I was able to easily add members through "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY". PLEASE ACTIVATE "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" FUNCTION. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | redmenace | 11/08/07 9:16 | I also want "add members directly" back! My fledgling political organization will be strangled by this change. Nobody signs up on our clipboards to be "invited" to our email list, they sign up to be "added"! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | windyegret | 11/08/07 10:39 | Ditto. I just noticed the missing "add directly" feature today. I need it to get 100% coverage for the group without jumping through hoops. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Sune | 11/08/07 14:19 | Google claims that the reason for removing the ADD DIRECT is fighting spammers. I suspect Google to have another reason: To force all (new) members to create a google-account! As the INVITATION ACCEPT demands a google account? Of course this will n |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | brwieland | 11/08/08 10:10 | Please return the ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY feature. With it, many of us find Google Groups very helpful. Without it, Google Groups is nearly useless. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | ftobin | 11/08/08 20:04 | Google is not approaching this problem sensibly. First, I am sure many mailing lists attract non-technical members out-of-band, like I mine does. It's easy enough to create a design where if a mailing list has been around for a while, and appears t |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Sr.Kathy | 11/08/09 10:54 | I am really frustrated with google groups. I started a group for our congregation. Sent out over 300 invites. Most went to the members junk mail boxes and they never saw the invite and like me- empty out their junk mail regularly. Now they can't join |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | szotsaki | 11/08/09 14:19 | Oh my… How can I invite an other mailing LIST?! Which is only able to send mails, not receive. See, clearly: THE RECIPIENT IS NOT ABLE TO RECIEVE A MAIL. Just Send. But I Wanted to Add Among the Others. How, dear Google, how? Do I Share on Google+? |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | RikD | 11/08/10 7:53 | Please bring back the Add Directly feature. I've never been spammed by a Google Group; that is just silly. It is nearly impossible to get everyone to accept the invite when you are working with a large group! Bring this feature back ASAP! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | mor.sagmon | 11/08/11 10:03 | I agree - letting an issue with spam dictate the policy for all and crippling the basic function to add members directly, after we all based our groups and organizations upon, is not smart. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Maskil | 11/08/11 12:49 | Isn’t it amazing that whenever somebody like Google (or Microsoft, etc.) wants to strip some incredibly useful feature from a product, then it’s always “based on user feedback”. In this case “based on user feedback to improve your discussion experie |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | aikidan | 11/08/11 16:00 | Ditto, i run over 10 lists with membership totaling 1000 people across these lists, they are a mix of professional and community groups. These groups are, because of historical reasons, split across yahoo and google with the aim to migrate to google. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Sr.Kathy | 11/08/12 7:28 | It is a deal breaker- I need to make a decision soon. What say you Google? |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | KeithNeill | 11/08/12 7:40 | Have spoken to a couple of people who asked to be added, and it seems to be the case that Hotmail users are definitely not receiving the invitations. Whether that be due to spam policies, inter-company politics, or whatever - who knows or indeed car |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | ftobin | 11/08/12 8:09 | One method we can take to help bring Google's attention to this (because I'm fairly certain this would be off their radar) is to begin suggestion alternate mailing list providers. Does anyone have suggestions in other providers they are looking into |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Sr.Kathy | 11/08/12 14:42 | What does it mean that the eail on the invites is 'not verified?' How can we get this on their radar? I am going to look incompetent to my congregation if I have to switch to Yahoo- no one likes this. Any other way to bring this to the powers that be |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | CMW06 | 11/08/13 9:48 | Please reinstate the "Add Members Directly" option |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | jlightfield | 11/08/14 9:29 | Please bring back add directly. I manage two googlegroups that this is critical for. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | ZiaraatDotCom | 11/08/15 3:55 | The most useful feature should not be done away with completely like that. There are several options to ensure defeating the spanmers and facilitating a huge number of genuine list administrators. I am facing a lot of problems with several new member |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | AstroLFW | 11/08/15 11:01 | I manage listserves on both Yahoo and Google, and totally agree with the above posters - the "Add Members Directly' function is invaluable and should be reinstated. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/08/15 12:48 | That feature made it possible to move a list from another host and to grow it. It's absence makes it impossible to even consider doing that again. Except in the opposite direction. It punishes listowners with administrative burdens that actually accr |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Matthias Luebken | 11/08/15 13:24 | I need this feature too. Any suggestion where to move? |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Sune | 11/08/16 1:09 | Alternatives: http://groupspaces.com and http://groups.yahoo.com/ are professional sites (free with limitations). http://www.emaildodo.com is free, but only max. 50 members. http://www.freelists.org (free & unlimited, except all lists must be technol |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/08/16 8:49 | I now find an additional burden with this. A new list member, who had to be "invited" to confirm his invitation, was set up with a default of "Not allowed" for POSTING. That is despite a group setting that allows all members to post. Which means the |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tyamadajp | 11/08/16 9:30 | But these "unhappy" people are all list admins. If there're 100 admins hit and each manages list of 100 members, that's roughly 10,000 people affected. And more and more admins will be hit when they try to add new members, especially when they do it |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Jaberwok | 11/08/16 10:11 | I would also strongly urge a change to this policy; in trying to establish a mailing list here I've had at least half a dozen people say that they never received the invitation email. While I understand why this decision has been made (and strongly a |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | jlj.colorado | 11/08/16 10:46 | PLEASE BRING THE "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" FEATURE BACK. I have migrated and created ~10 email lists with over 1000 people into Google Groups, but it becomes impossible to manage these lists or create new ones without this feature. I will have to stop u |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Sr.Kathy | 11/08/17 7:37 | OMG! I thought i found a 'back door' to this problem. According to google directions i went to my membership and unsubscribed each member then reinvited them. the first day i was able to do around 20, than i got a spam message and had to type in one |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | GoGreen Rao | 11/08/17 8:04 | I am loosing so many members just because of the option of adding member directly has been removed. Its realy frustrating missing many people on my events just because they have not checked or the mail would have landed into their spam folder.. Don't |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | GoGreen Rao | 11/08/17 8:10 | removing usefull features and calling it is improvments no "THIS IS CERTINALY NOT AN IMPROVMENT" Pls give back the option of adding members directly ASAP if Google does not wanted people to move out due to this problem |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | maillard8693 | 11/08/18 10:21 | Can I third or 85th the ADD Direct function. Not having this option as a group owner is rather rediculous. I HATE Yahoo groups, the email function is dated and sometimes takes several days to catch up. I can understand not having the direct add fo |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | mhlmhl | 11/08/18 12:33 | I manage a number of Google Groups for a church, and I normally use "add member" to add someone to the group. I find that "invite member" basically doesn't work because many of the church members fail to respond to the invitation. This may because |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | mhlmhl | 11/08/18 12:36 | One more comment: the new Google Groups is NOT faster, NOT more powerful, and NOT more cool. The banner blurb on the top of the help pages is just plain incorrect. It should read: "less powerful, more of a hassle to use". |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | mszczech | 11/08/19 10:50 | Hi, I manage couple of groups using googlegroups. Now A MAJOR piece of functionality "Add Members Directly" was removed without any notice/consultation. I do not feel safe with Google as my groups engine provider anymore. What is the next thing the |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | MGTDS | 11/08/19 15:39 | The removal of the direct add member feature has caused major problems and is an admin nightmare. I am an admin for an entire school (ex-students) that has individual class newsgroups, While I created the various class newsgroups the individual clas |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/08/19 20:38 | Behemoths are not in the habit of explaining their actions ... which is well illustrated by the failure of anyone within Google to so much as ACKNOWLEDGE the existence of this thread, let alone reply to it. Guess they figure they'll give us what we |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | rojgvca | 11/08/20 20:24 | Count me as one more who really wants the "add members directly" feature back. If it doesn't happen, I'll be looking for an alternative. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | kobkathy | 11/08/21 13:33 | I agree that losing the add feature is a huge burden to the admin. And why is no one from Google answering this question? |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | sdiver | 11/08/21 14:09 | Greetings -- I have been a big fan of google to date, and this is the first time I have seen your company make a decision which does not put the needs of users first and foremost. So I am hopeful that you will respond to this issue ASAP. Most peopl |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | cwestra | 11/08/21 14:20 | Since the change, the invitations sent to people wanting to be members of our groups are not being received by them. They were sent days ago and they are not in their spam boxes. This is a critical issue! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | erzi95 | 11/08/21 20:44 | Bring add members directly functionality back please. Now I have to use yahoogroups instead. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | BritAlb | 11/08/21 21:29 | I administer two different groups, and agree with what everyone is writing in this thread. Would-be members tell me they did not receive invitation emails, and are upset not to be on the list. Whether they accidentally deleted the emails, whether the |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | BITS1234 | 11/08/22 4:54 | Hi people at Google, pl bring back the add members directly Thks |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | efindley | 11/08/22 5:50 | I agree 100% with people here. My group is small and I don't add members often, so I was dismayed to learn I could no longer add members directly when I tried it today. People simply don't respond to invites, and the direct-add method is the only s |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | efindley | 11/08/22 6:00 | Also...I suggest people use the "Contacting Us" link to flood the support inbox with the reports of dissatisfaction. http://groups.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=contact_policy I don't know if the people who count read these forums, |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | aygul | 11/08/22 6:17 | Please feel free to make a feature suggestion or send general feedback using the following form: http://groups.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=groups_feedback |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | ftobin | 11/08/22 7:29 | If Google is monitoring their metrics properly, hopefully they will notice a sudden drop-off in growth-rate of Google Groups members to valid, well-established lists. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/08/22 8:17 | Another way this is handicapping listowners is to make it that much more difficult to deal with people who need or want multiple subscriptions .. with different kinds of sending and receiving options. And as previously noted, I've had to change the p |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/08/22 8:32 | I just posted the following to the FEEDBACK page .. and repeated in their closing survey: >>> Please check the forum thread on the loss of ability to directly add subscribers. Of about 70 posts, about 70 voice opposition and spell out numerous vali |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | RSBly | 11/08/22 11:52 | This is driving me crazy. Like others who've posted here, I manage multiple large listservs and the inability to add members directly is making my work a nightmare. Google, please bring back the ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY feature! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | marym4 | 11/08/22 14:25 | Like all the other users above, I too, am looking to move my lists to another provider if "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" is not reinstated! I manage several lists with almost 1,000 people and have over 50 now waiting to be added. Important information is ema |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Albertini- | 11/08/24 7:28 | Please put "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" back to service! It is google group administrator's responsiblity to fight with spam email, not us! By simply removing "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" function, the google guys get less trouble but ordinary users get more |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/08/24 9:11 | Has anyone here seen ANY Google response ANYWHERE to this thread or this issue? |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | booz.robert | 11/08/24 11:34 | this is absolutely terrible. i work for a not for profit that relied on google groups for communication and we have been ABSOLUTELY CRIPPLED by this choice. often the invitation emails are funneled into peoples spam boxes or are disregarded. Google y |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | ushimado | 11/08/24 14:23 | Please put "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" back into service. I manage several teams/clubs/groups with Google Groups, and inviting people to join Google Groups works less than 50% of the time. I'll be forced to use a different service if this remains the ca |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | ewsdc | 11/08/24 19:49 | I agree, I agree, I agree! We are managing over 20 individual list serves for our school, and the loss of this function basically makes our googlegroups USELESS! I also manage several other list serves (neighborhood), and being able to ADD members (s |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | bminney | 11/08/25 3:05 | Not one of the invitations I have sent out has been accepted. These invitations are not being received. Most of my group members work in local government and i suspect these are being blocked by a spam system before they reach the individuals. As Goo |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | jacthegrami | 11/08/25 5:40 | PLEASE bring back the "Add Members Directly" feature |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/08/25 10:31 | I don't know if this is related to Google's current alleged spam suppression effort, but I got a note from one of my subscribers today that two of his posts had not appeared. When I checked, indeed those two posts were trapped ... marked "possible s |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | ascathedral | 11/08/25 11:53 | As so many others in this thread, I am going to begin evaluating options for distribution of our newsletter and announcements to our members, based on the fact that many of said members are just not "with it" enough to respond to an invitation. They |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | wvdirtboy | 11/08/25 12:43 | How can you can manage a group if you can't directly add people? Does Google even care what we are saying here? Guess not. Time to migrate to another service. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | thenarsc | 11/08/26 11:09 | Can anyone please share what other listserv options are out there? I'm among the group owners who cannot manage a group effectively without being able to manually add people, but I'm having trouble finding an alternative. Yahoo Groups does not seem t |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | terrygibson | 11/08/27 3:09 | Here's another name on the rapidly growing list of people who will be moving their organisation (a church) to another service. I't's a real pain because we'll have to register everyone again, but our experience is the same as many others, which is th |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | terrygibson | 11/08/27 3:11 | I also notice from an earlier poster a very useful list of alternative services and thought I'd repeat it here to keep it visible Alternatives: http://groupspaces.com and http://groups.yahoo.com/ are professional sites (free with limitations). http:/ |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | terrygibson | 11/08/27 3:12 | And finally another poster highlighted the post a message function - one would be thrilled if Google read these |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Rathnadhar | 11/08/27 9:02 | Namasthe, I am struck now. All these days I propagated the Google Groups. I migrated from Yahoo Groups. In the initial stages Google Groups was really great. Simple and easy to use. BUT OF LATE its becoming a pain to work. 1. I think the new Googl |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Jeppedy | 11/08/28 6:35 | This change makes Google Groups worthless to most, I'll bet. It's nice for listserv types of things, but that's the end of it... Bring back the "Add Direct" feature. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | pratulp | 11/08/28 8:27 | Yes, this is an absolute MUST feature for me too. I have small groups and if I am not affected by SPAM why impact users like us who have a genuine use for it? |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | JB1962 | 11/08/28 17:28 | Agree with all the disgruntled owners above. Without the ADD member directly feature I won't use it. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | drchristo | 11/08/29 7:51 | any response from google?how many people have complained on this thread?is anyone there? |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Borg6 | 11/08/29 12:33 | Count me as one more moving his group to another service |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Sune | 11/08/30 6:10 | Today I was happy surprised to have a chat with a nice Google-woman ("Demand Generation" department).She hasn't heard anything about the missing AddMemberDirect function, so I was happy to introduce hear to the problem and all the heart-breaking stor |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/08/30 6:31 | Here's a rough summary of this thread --- "BY THE NUMBERS:" Number of posts in this thread at this writing: nearly 100 Number opposed to this policy: nearly 100 Number in favor: 0 Number of Google responses: 0 |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Generatorissimus | 11/08/30 6:36 | Please give back the "direct add members option". The invitation cannot reach my friends (server side spam filters?). I cannot add him and her to the list. They cannot receive the invitations. It is a serious problem. Very serious. Please give it opt |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | garywpalmer | 11/08/30 6:43 | I was inspired by Sune's message above so I'm starting to send email to all the technical web sites I can think of. Here's an example. If others would do the same we might get Googles attention. In July Google Groups took away the ability fo |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | ted.coopman | 11/08/30 9:25 | Yes please provide some option for directly adding members. I teach 5 college classes and use Google Groups to communicate with my students. Often students do not respond to invites and therefore miss important announcements and class information.Whi |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | jennywoodrealestate | 11/08/30 10:02 | I too need the add directly option back. My group has several that are tech challenged and they need it to be as simple as possible. Yahoo seems to have a great way of combating this problem. Maybe since they've brought back their add directly opti |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tranghienvo | 11/08/31 12:52 | I am the owner/administrator of the y-nha74 google group, and I find the capability to add member directly to our group is very helpful to manage our group activity. I wish Google will give us back this capability. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | sfmuellr | 11/08/31 13:39 | I manage our high school marching band and concert band groups. I too miss the add member directly and am especially having problems with yahoo and hotmail accounts. I am guessing from previous posts that they are getting filtered into spam folders. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | rlporter5 | 11/08/31 18:33 | After days of trying to figure out where the Add members directly feature went, I searched and found this thread. I run four Google groups and need to add two or three people a day to the group. About one in 10 invitations actually get through to t |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | oek | 11/08/31 20:28 | Here is another one wishing Google to bring back "add members directly" feature from Japan. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | AngusK | 11/09/01 17:21 | Idiots. I have the exact same complaints as everyone else on here. If yahoo can manage it, so can google. All this will do is make us switch our group to yahoo. What a shock that there is no response from google. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | trinkner | 11/09/02 9:56 | Google seems to have broken their corporate slogan, "Don't be evil" by requiring Google Group participants to open a Google account when they accept an invitation. Now they can be tracked, the information gathered, presumably sold... Not only is th |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | ifaint | 11/09/03 7:35 | I am a Chinese, and I am the administrator of a academic group. As you know, people in China can only access google groups via VPN. That will be a problem for the invited people (most of them have no VPNs) to open to the url you send to them confirmi |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/09/03 9:15 | I quote one of my list subscribers discussing a different (but ominously similar) issue: Guess this is another opportunity to remember the maxim: If you're not paying for a service, you're not the customer; you're the product. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | crannaford | 11/09/05 6:11 | I'd love to know if there is a good alternative because if I can't add members to my group I'm not interested. I've been sending invitations and they are simply not arriving. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Ditarnow | 11/09/06 5:27 | Please add functionality back!! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Liln | 11/09/06 7:34 | Adding my voice to the chorus: PLEASE BRING BACK THE ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY FEATURE. I really don't want to have to switch back to Yahoo. Is anyone talking about this on Google+/Twitter/Facebook etc? Might help getting Google to pay attention. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/09/06 9:14 | If anyone involved with Googlegroups EVER had any interest in paying attention to the comments here (doubtful), they've had nearly a month and a half to act on that unlikely inclination. Google appears to have "turned the Page" on its early "do no e |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | BT46n2 | 11/09/06 16:03 | THIS IS RIDICULOUS - I NEED TO RE-ADD NO-REPLY at http://BLOGGER.COM TO MY GROUP IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO DISTRIBUTE EMAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!https://groups.google.com/group/tradeguild WHY DON'T YOU JUST STOP PROVIDING GROUPS, BLOGS AND ALL THE GOOD STUF |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | rhormuth | 11/09/08 15:29 | No way to work around it....especially bad if you have Cell Phone text members (ie: ........@http://txt.att.net ) ....The Google Groups invite gets chopped up/dropped by many phone texting services. Only work around is to move to something like http://gro |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | marsie | 11/09/11 0:40 | +1 Please reinstate the Add Members Directly option in Google Groups and force a security code or CAPTCHA to weed out spam bots from abusing the feature. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Generatorissimus | 11/09/11 11:36 | Please give back the "direct add member" feature. In this form it is a suicide, the worst advertisement that can exist. Why? Easy: The spammers easy send invitation instead of "direct add". The spam filters are eat the invitation mails. Not only the |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | craiginsd | 11/09/13 21:56 | Unacceptable policy change. Unsubscribing from a group is easy if the user feels they're receiving spam. "Protecting" possible recipients from spam in NO WAY offsets the inconvenience caused to Group administrators by eliminating direct addition of |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | SenseiKeith | 11/09/13 22:10 | Plus 1 from me, or is that minus 1 from me. as I have decided to leave and take my 12 groups with me. for everyone's information, here is what I found and have decided to do. Office Mail merge works very well for sending emails. Keep you contact det |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tyamadajp | 11/09/13 23:42 | With a scarce hope of Google rep seeing this, I'd like to point out this change actually INCREASED chance of getting SPAM. As everyone knows by now, this invitation-only model does not work at all with non-technical subscribers. So if you're staying |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | commanager | 11/09/14 12:36 | Google staff, please read this thread at http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=51ac6e2901442239 about the problems people face with the removal of the "Add members directly" function. I also suffer at work because of this, so pl |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Sune | 11/09/14 12:49 | Here is my comment to the "help" for Invitations link. Please also make magazines/news know about this. The invitation is NOT WORKING as it demands: (1) the member NEED to create a GoogleAccount and not all members wants/manage to do that (2) most o |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tjm28 | 11/09/16 9:39 | Google has done many wonderful things with it's technology an user interfaces, but it has really botched things up for group administrators with the removal of the Direct Add feature from it's google groups. I am the president of a statewide non prof |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tom40 | 11/09/16 18:05 | Folks, some 25 messages back, I ran some totals for this thread. At that point, there were about 100 messages. Of those, about 100 asked for a return of the adding feature .. most with thoughtful legitimate reasons. Exactly ZERO favored this policy. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | myamydog | 11/09/17 6:16 | PUT Back the ADD MEMBERS feature. I manage 6 Google groups for a non-profit dog rescue in Southern California. Google groups has turned getting people onto one or more lists into a HUGE PAIN. No--WORSE---an EXASPERATING experience. I can waste an hou |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | myamydog | 11/09/17 6:44 | GOOGLE: You restored the "reply all" default feature when Gmail users complained. Please do likewise, and restore the ADD MEMBERS feature to Google groups. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Patrick Bowman | 11/09/17 10:39 | Google's draconian solution to remove this function entirely is like skinning yourself to avoid melanoma. Managing large groups, or even smaller groups of non-technical people, is absolutely impossible if you can't add members directly, as half of t |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Mauro Buti | 11/09/19 8:41 | Please, please, please, PLEASE!!!! Give us back the "Add member" functionality, it is crazyness to manage mailing lists without it. Don't let me switch the group management because of this... :( |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | 8orche | 11/09/20 2:12 | I also agree with many posters. Pls restore good "add members DIRECTLY" feature!! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | fulup | 11/09/20 3:36 | I cannot agree more with all previous post. If google does not restore the "direct add users", like many others I will have to transfert back my mailling list to mailman or something equivalent. I handle few small non profit lists, mostly with old p |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | myamydog | 11/09/20 12:47 | Google groups: At least let us know if you are considering restoring the "add members" feature. If not, I don't want to waste any more time trying to get new volunteers signed up on Google groups. I will be looking to migrate all our lists to another |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | thogger | 11/09/20 16:19 | Yet another request to restore the "add members directly" function. I have had nothing but problems trying to add people by e-mail invite alone. Nearly none of the people I send invites to don't receive the invite request in their inbox. I will be |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | LPP1 | 11/09/21 15:50 | The same petition for Google: can you restore the Invite Directly funcion, that was so useful? Thank you! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | japsj | 12/01/09 11:11 | +1 from me! Please enable "Add Members Directly" again! Google groups is nearly worthless to me without it. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Steph | 12/01/14 20:00 | hopefully you will add the "add directly" feature back some day! please come back! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Restore Add Members | 12/01/15 13:02 | Looks like Larry will add google groups to the list of 2012 projects that Google will dump. To remove this feature is so stupid and damaging that the only reason is they want to kill off Google groups. Ruins the usefulness as shown here from all of |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Restore Add Members | 12/01/15 13:05 | I think we all need to go find a new group service. It has been months and Google does not listen to it's users or care. What happens when you get big and the individual user is now meaningless. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | sudhir devadiga | 12/01/24 22:14 | We have to get back "add members directly" option... every time we have to send invitation and ppls has to accept invitation. GOOOGLE.............. please solve this issue |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | sudhir devadiga | 12/01/24 22:16 | Please feel free to make a feature suggestion or send general feedback using the following form:http://groups.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=groups_feedback |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Andy82 | 12/01/31 23:43 | WTH Google, please put the feature back, it's really stupid you had something that works and now you're screwing so many people. Look at the list of complaints here!! You should listen to your audience. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | twinsibling.com | 12/02/07 10:23 | |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | twinsibling.com | 12/02/07 10:24 | PLEASE RESTORE "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" FEATURE |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | sentinel618 | 12/02/23 10:39 | As with virtually everyone here, I have a number of groups spread between Yahoo and Google and *was* looking into transferring things solely to Google. However, the 'Add Members' feature is an invaluable tool for List Managers. I am utterly amazed th |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | tomhro | 12/02/28 15:52 | Totally agree Restore Add Members!!! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | hbucell | 12/03/06 19:13 | There must be some law or reason why people can't be added directly anymore. Some users must have really abused it by spamming. A solution? Google group admins can request permission to restore this option, including adhering to some sort of anti- |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | hbucell | 12/03/06 19:19 | WE MUST BE ABLE TO ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY!!!! Or else, people would likely be left out due to the aforementioned comments. So many important community groups now function off Google Groups. I know of 2 neighborhood schools and 5 community groups. I |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | inge.a | 12/03/13 13:23 | Not being able to add members directly is a deal breaker for me. The technically challenged and elderly have a hard time dealing with the invitations. I sent an invitation to several of my own addresses, and there was no clickable link in the Eudora |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | malcook | 12/03/20 7:24 | +1 +1 +1 +1 restore this functionality! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Werner | 12/03/23 1:26 | Just to let you all know: It is now again possible to add new members directly to a Google Group! http://support.google.com/groups/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2465464 |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | mforward | 12/03/28 18:51 | I tried this but for some reason when I get to step #8, I don't see the Add button anywhere to finish the task.Am I missing something? |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Aldox | 12/03/29 1:40 | You should behave like you want to invite someone. Only, when at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!managemembers/your-group-name/invite you should see the choice between Invite by email Add members directly Actually that works onl |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | nampic | 12/03/30 6:50 | When I'm trying to add new members I'm getting the following message in a beige popup box: "You do not have permission to access this group. (#700)" I am the owner and logged in with the right username (I can do other administrative tasks). The seco |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | BrianHu | 12/04/03 3:49 | Well, I do finally get to the 'add members directly' tab only by using this URL:https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!managemembers/your-group-name/invite But even there Google refuses to add email addresses that have previously been se |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Aldox | 12/04/03 5:59 | They should look in the Spam folder of their mailboxes....it's sad, but many mail servers are sending there Google Groups invitations. Maybe because of the many links Google invitations are having at the bottom of the invitation messages. Anyway, yo |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | nampic | 12/04/03 6:17 | I've send and re-sent dozens of invites to several yahoo addresses (couple of which are mine), 'verified' and 'not verified' by google. None of them reached the mailboxes - inbox, junk, spam, you name it. No issues with other mail servers I tested (l |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Aldox | 12/04/03 8:46 | You told it. Y***o is famous for getting rid of Google group invitations. Until some time ago, they went in Spam, seemingly nowadays it's even worse! Thanks for letting me know! Aldo PS once you'll have Y***o members, it will be better to avoid any |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | piripak | 12/04/10 6:35 | Did you find a solution for that? I went to the old version, unsubscribed all the pending invitations, went back to the new version, tried to manually add only to get the same error: You do not have permission to access this group. (#700). |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | nampic | 12/04/10 8:32 | No, I didn't find a solution. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Aldox | 12/04/10 14:38 | @ nampic You could prompt your maybe members to join the group with a private invitation, giving just the group URL, eventually slightly modified by inserting some spaces. I understand "verified" people are already having a Google account with their |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | mattgibb | 12/04/15 15:39 | I sent an invitation and the recipient can't see it, even in his spam. Now google won't allow me to re-invite him or to add him directly, it just says he's already been invited. Any ideas? |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Aldox | 12/04/15 15:51 | Once done, you should be able to add him from the new interface. In alternative, after the deletion you could prompt your maybe member to join the group with a private invitation, giving the group URL, eventually slightly modified by inserting some |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | cindy g | 12/04/19 10:13 | |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | MALAYSIA_ABR | 12/04/24 5:21 | Similar problem, dont find it logical to have groups but couldnt easily add members.. whets the point than.. like to provide a car without the key |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | kkgmom | 12/08/30 8:10 | I am managing a group with parents of private school dorming students. The international parents are having difficulty opening the link to accept their invitation. Others don't want to create a Google Membership. All need to be a part of this grou |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | kkuja78 | 12/11/27 8:46 | <このメッセージは削除されました。> |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | kkuja78 | 12/11/27 8:48 | It doesn't work. When I click Direct add members, I get message: "You can not directly add members to this group." |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | MooNinja | 12/11/30 12:09 | I get the same thing. This is very disappointing since I am managing a group for my peers in a Business Cohort, so I look awful not being able to directly invite them to the group. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | manish tank | 12/12/05 0:28 | i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Glider Bee | 13/01/09 12:41 | So why the heck haven't they removed the "DIRECT ADD" link? The darn thing returns a success screen, and even emails the added person saying they're a member! the only thing that does not happen is, you never get on the member list. Someone needs to |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | jerome diabe | 13/01/14 11:01 | I agree with you. I do not even have the option to invite people to my group. Google needs to bring back this feature. |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Khalid Yar Khan | 13/02/18 22:25 | Please restore Add Members directly |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | kkuja78 | 13/03/21 4:11 | Good indicator about how much google has fucked this up, is that I manage three groups, and to one I can add members directly. But for two, I cannot. F... Google, get your shit together! Anyway, are there some good alternatives to google groups, for |
| Re: i can't add members directly to my "google group" ..... why ... help !!! | Lucas Sinopoli | 13/04/22 21:05 | Please restore the "ADD MEMBERS DIRECTLY" option!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really need it!!!! |