E-mail Notification for New Group Members

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Comment by Erik Deckers on December 10, 2008 at 10:22am

Outlook.

Comment by Jason Bean on December 10, 2008 at 10:17am

Erik what email program are your rules being used in?

Comment by Erik Deckers on December 10, 2008 at 10:13am

Unfortunately, the email notifications are just an all or none. I can turn off ALL group notifications, but I can't specify the "joined" messages. So I took my own advice and created a mail filter. It's working great so far.

Comment by Douglas Karr on December 10, 2008 at 9:55am

I did check and there was nothing at a network level that allows you to turn off that setting - seems to be a member preference.

Comment by Douglas Karr on December 10, 2008 at 9:55am

You can modify your email notifications in your settings.

Comment by Jason Bean on December 9, 2008 at 11:35pm

Good idea Erik. Thanks for the suggestion.

Comment by Erik Deckers on December 9, 2008 at 11:31pm

While I don't think there's a way to turn off the new group member notifications, the administrator can turn off specific notifications that appear on the front activity page, like when two people become friends, when someone updates their profile questions or photo, or when they post a comment, discussion question, or blog post.

I'm hoping there's something in that section of Ning that lets administrators turn that off as well.

The one thing I can suggest is that you put a double filter on your email. I send all Smaller Indiana messages to a special folder. I'm thinking about adding another filter that deletes all messages that contain "has joined the group" in the body. That would save all the other messages.

Comment by Jason Bean on December 9, 2008 at 4:58pm

Theresia I ONLY want to unsubscribe from the new member email notifications. I'm like you, if I don't get emails, I'm bad about staying current on what's going on in the group.

Comment by Jason Bean on December 9, 2008 at 4:52pm

That's what I was afraid of... =(

Comment by Theresia Whitfield on December 9, 2008 at 4:52pm

There should be a button on the main group page that if you click on it, you can either follow or stop following the group. You'll just have to remember to check in from time to time, which I'm bad about. But I know what you mean. We get enough emails as it is, eh?!

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