Google Group setup headache
Tip of the day: If you’re setting up a Google Group, don’t try to invite 400+ people at once no matter how legitimate the group is — it will get you “flagged for review”, which will leave your group “pending approval” for an undetermined amount of time.
And how do I know? I’m continuing to wait an undetermined amount of time ;-) I suppose in hindsight that I should have issued invites in small blocks rather then all at once. But then I didn’t know it was going to be a problem. I guess from Google’s perspective, inviting hundreds of people could be seen as a convoluted means of spamming people.
So.. if you’re one of the 400+ people who I’m emailed about a Google Group invite “coming soon”… well… there’s been an unforeseen delay.
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[Update: May 2nd, 2006] It took two weeks, but the group was finally authorized and invites went out today! Woo hoo!
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hello,
In your google group are you talking about pys60 ?
Come on, you would have been on the list if we were :-)
No.. this is about c++ tools. Still no reply from Google, BTW.
But Erik , I try now to create Symbian C++ extension for py_s60 !
http://cyke64.googlepages.com/KEYPRESS.PYD keypress v1.01 and http://cyke64.googlepages.com/image1st.SIS
I’ve tried google groups and they seem to be another red headed step child of google. Yahoo groups is hands down better at handling groups and group activities. I wonder if collectiveX might work for such a specific group? email list with networking built in? Not sure.
Karl
I don’t have any experience with CollectiveX yet, so no idea if it would work or not. For this project, I wanted to stick with an established group provider who’s functionality was free, well understood, and easily accessible by everyone in the group.
I’ve had good luck using both Google Groups and Yahoo Groups, so I don’t really have a preference between the two.