5 Aug
2025
5 Aug
'25
12:26 a.m.
I run several Groups.io Email Groups for bands and groups I play with.
There is no need to 'get a free account' (meaning a free email address).
Your (free) Account at Groups.io is your subscribed email address - it will be the same
one subscribed to [Organizers].
To just receive and send messages from and to the Group, nothing is different other than
the address you post to.
You will need to Log In with your subscribed email address to view the Messages archive,
Calendar, and other features.
Logging In can be done either with a Password you choose, or by having a "Log In
link" emailed sent to your subscribed email address.
-Michael
On Aug 4, 2025, at 11:27 PM, Eric Black via Organizers
<organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I agree, it’s a good idea. And it’s easy enough to get a free account if you don’t
already have one
Eric
> On Aug 4, 2025, at 7:55 AM, Seth Seeger via Organizers
<organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> Dear list members,
>
> Since the beginning, the archives for this list have been public. This was an effort
to make information easier to search, to find, to link to, and to share. However, the
days of free information online have changed. AI bots are now scraping the web for data
to train on and privacy is more of an issue.
>
> As we move to groups.io, Chris and I would like to make the archives private. The
biggest reasons are member privacy and to protect us from AI training/scraping. This
means that you’ll need a free account on the new site to view the archives.
>
> We feel this is a good change for our community. Since the only barrier to the
archives would be subscribing, we think this is a reasonable trade off between privacy and
accessibility.
>
> If you have concerns about this change, please reply! (Once we make the archives at
groups.io private, we cannot make them public again later.)
>
> Thank you,
> Seth & Chris
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