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Re: Linking Nabble and Yahoogroup

Posted by GregChapman on Jan 14, 2016; 12:24am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Linking-Nabble-and-Yahoogroup-tp7596485p7596498.html

trebso wrote
I presume Administrators approve new membership requests. Is that right?
You need to understand the various types/levels of user, known as "Groups". Many newcomers to forums fail to distinguish between those in the "Registered" group and those added to the "Member" group. These are specific technical terms in forum-speak.

By default those in the "Anyone" group - literally anyone - can view and post anywhere on your forum. Most forum administrators will change the default permissions (See: Options > Users > Change permissions) to prevent anyone posting. Typically will let anyone view a forum as that will encourage people to participate.

The next level of user is "Registered". That is anyone who confirms (by clicking a link in an email sent to the address they claim to own) their access to a valid email address. Anyone can register and once registered they can never be removed from the registered list. Most forum administrators will allow registered users to view and post to their forum. This will not apply to you as you want to restrict posting to paid up members of your club.

(About the only thing registering does is allow the administrator to ban that user from the forum. However, banning can be subverted by a forum abuser by registering again using a different address. However, unless there is a case of ham-fisted administration that causes offence to a user this is never normally a problem in a forum used by mature people.)

You need to use the next level of user above this, that of  "Member". Users are assigned to this group manually by someone in the "Administrator" group. They can also be removed from this group - perhaps because of non-payment of a subscription.

The concept of "membership request" is a bit alien to the way a forum works. Normally, for a new forum to be used by club members, I would expect the administrator to add all club members email addresses to the "Members" group even before they are invited to join the forum. That way when the members registers at the forum they automatically also get all the privileges of membership without an additional process.

However, if the Administrator is a little slow in adding a user to the "Member" group and the user attempts to access an area where they do not yet have permission to view or post, they will be presented with a screen that invites them to post a request to the Administrator explaining why they believe they should be able to access that area.
Do all Admins receive an email letting them know a request is pending?
You missed the bit in my linked post that said you need to go to:
Options > Application > Extras & Add-ons > Email & Notifications >Notify me when someone registers
and turn the feature on.
Having read your post linked above more carefully, I'm still not clear is new members have to APPROVED by an Admin, or if they can only be removed if they register and turn out not to be qualified. Can you clarify?
I'm sorry my post wasn't clear. Hopefully, my opening description this time helps. It is a case of needing to understand the hierarchical nature of your forum's user groups, "Anyone", "Registered", "Member" and "Administrator" (plus any others you add to the default set) and how you need to map these forum terms to the various terms you might use for some of your club members, e.g. "potential member", "paid-up member", "lapsed member" and "committee member" (you'd need to create a group for this last group, if you wish to have a sub-forum to which committee members have access but ordinary members do not).

As an Administrator you have no control over who is in the "Anyone" or "Registered" group, so you should expect to find both potential members and lapsed members in the "Registered" group and make sure that group has the appropriate permissions for that type of club member. You need manually to add paid-up members to the forum's "Member" group and remove them when their subscription is overdue, so they fall back to only being in the "Anyone" and "Registered" groups (from which you cannot remove them).
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