5 Setting default subscription options for group members

5.1 Overview

You can set default subscription options for the group that will apply to all new members. Be aware that members can override these defaults individually by changing their personal subscription settings.

To display the Settings page for default subscription options:

On your group’s left navigation menu, select Admin > Settings. The main Settings page appears.
At the top of the Settings page, click the Default Sub Settings button.

On this page, you can set default subscription options for these elements:

Email Delivery
Message Selection
Replies
Max Attachment Size
Timezone
Time Display
Date Display
Monday Start

! Important: When you finish customizing settings on this page, ensure that you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click the Update Group button. Your changes will not take effect until you click that button.

5.2 Email Delivery

Select a setting that specifies how members receive group posts by email:

Individual Messages: Members receive each message individually as soon as it is posted to the group. (This setting is the default.)
Full Featured Digest: Members receive a fully formatted (HTML) digest containing the day’s messages. With this setting, the system groups a day’s messages into batches of 12 and delivers each batch in one digest message when the 12th message is posted. Any messages that remain at the end of the day are sent as the final (or only) digest of the day. The digests include the full text of each message, omitting any quotes of previous messages. Full Featured Digests include, at the top, a list of the enclosed topics, which are clickable links to take readers directly to the topics within the digest.
Plain Digest: Members receive a plain text digest containing the day’s messages. This digest is generated and sent the same way as a full featured digest, but it does not contain clickable links.
Daily Summary: Members receive a once-daily list of topics that were posted that day. Unlike the digests, the summary does not include the text of any of the messages. It contains only a list of topics.
Special Notices Only: Members receive only the messages that moderators have designated as special notices.
No Email: With this setting, members do not receive any group messages by email. They might still receive individual notifications from the group (for example, special notices) and system messages from Groups.io.
Note:

With this setting, members can access messages and other group features on the group’s website, but they do not receive group posts through email.
The No Email setting will not be available if you decide to disable it for the group. See Disable No Email.

5.3 Message Selection

Select a setting that specifies which messages members receive by email:

All Messages: Members receive every message (individually or in digests, depending on the Email Delivery setting) posted to the group except those that are in topics that they have specifically muted or that are tagged with one or more hashtags that they have specifically muted. (This setting is the default.)
Following Only: Members receive only the messages (individually or in digests, depending on the Email Delivery setting) posted to the group that are in topics that they are specifically following or that are tagged with one or more hashtags that they are specifically following.
First Message Also: Members receive the first message of each new topic, disregarding the fact that they have not yet followed that topic. This setting allows members to know that a given topic has been posted so they can then decide whether to follow any additional messages in that topic.
Note: You cannot select this checkbox unless you select Following Only.

5.4 Replies

Select the Auto Follow Replies checkbox to automatically send members all replies to topics that they start or reply to. This setting marks any topic that members start or that they reply to as one they follow. This setting mimics the common web forum behavior of providing email notification for topics that subscribers post in.

5.5 Max Attachment Size

If you want to specify a default maximum size for attachments that members receive in emails, select an option from this list. The default maximum attachment size is Unlimited.

This setting is useful for members who have a metered or limited connection or who have limited storage space for attachments. Instead of receiving an attached file, they will receive a link to it so they can open it from the group's website.

Note: This setting does not prevent members from sending large attachments to the group (and using up storage space). It just prevents large attachments from being delivered to members by email.

5.6 Timezone

This setting specifies the timezone to use for displaying times on the group’s website.

Note:

If you have a timezone set in your Groups.io account preferences, new groups that you create will have that timezone by default. Otherwise, the default timezone is U.S./Canada Pacific Time (UTC-08:00).
A change to this setting applies only to new members of the group; a change here does not affect existing members.

5.7 Time Display

This setting specifies whether times on the group’s website are displayed in standard (12-hour) or military (24-hour) format.

Note: A change to this setting applies only to new members of the group; a change here does not affect existing members.

5.8 Date Display

This setting specifies how numerical dates are displayed on the group’s website.