Emails from this group often become long and convoluted with replies to replies to replies. This sometimes triggers junk mail filters to label them as spam. When I joined this group, I noticed that I was not getting all of the emails. I had to create a rule on my gmail account to not put any emails from this group into the SPAM folder.
IMHO - part of the welcome email to new users, in addition to advising them about appropriate signatures, should also advise them to create an email rule to treat all emails from INA-Nonsuch-Discussion-Group@googlegroups.com as not spam.
If interested - a longer explanation regarding the connection to Discourse -
Discourse uses an industry stand spam filter. When our email stream hit Discourse, some emails were simply tossed out as junk mail. Others, where the filter was not sure, were put into a “Review” folder, and the sender was emailed by the spam filter (Akismet) that their email was pending review. That’s what happened to Don. When I checked the Review folder, there were several postings sitting there, including Don’s.
I changed some Discourse settings to not notify the sender when this happened (since this was all coming through our Google group, sending an email to the originator was just creating noise and confusion). I did not turn off the spam filter entirely (we don’t need postings on discount air filters, etc.). I’ll watch the behavior for a while, continue to mark items in the Review folder as not spam and see if Akismet learns to accept this group’s emails as legit postings (as it’s supposed to).
Jon,
Thanks for setting up Google Groups to forward posts and replies to Discourse. It is helpful to test drive Discourse with actual content.
After reading the same posts and replies on both platforms, I prefer the experience in Google Groups… Google groups posts and replies into a single thread, but in Discourse each post and reply is treated as a new topic. See screenshot below.
Is there a way to preserve the grouping of forwarded posts and replies in Discourse ? The conversations that originate in Discourse are grouped properly it’s only the forwarded ones that are not being grouped. Perhaps this is a bug in the forwarding process ?
What you are seeing in Discourse is likely not the final result, but a product of my forwarding Google emails one by one and watching how they are processed. The final behavior may well be different. When I am happy with the way Discourse is functioning, we can then flip the switch and have Google send emails directly to Discourse - it is supposed to recognize threads and group emails by their subject.
Having Google send emails directly to Discourse is a trial to see how it might work, as well as a way to easily get some content into Discourse to play with. It would be down around alternate plan C or D to have Discourse and Google run in parallel and cross-post to each other. Plan A is to determine whether the "mailing list"option for posting and replying via emails is acceptable to our email users.
Jon,
So how can a person see Discourse
I saw an example of it on an old link, I have since lost that.
How does one connect or is that not yet up and running?
Thanks for your experiment with a possible collaboration with GG.
Hi Brian,
I sent you an email with a link that will allow you ability to preview the test environment. At this point, the interface is kinda busy with lots of test posts, I’m happy to jump on a Zoom call sometime with you to give you a tour.
