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!