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07 Nov 2006 05:34:26 -0000

A system notification message from

 

On the morning of 8th November, will down for 30 minutes

for a system upgrade. During that time the website will be unavailable

but email to groups will be queued for delivery later. We are making the

following upgrades to the product:

 

1) New Email Format

2) Grouping Messages by Topic (Message Threading)

3) Advanced Search Functionality

4) Automatic Spam Suppression

5) Integration with Answers

 

1) New Email Format: Learn more about it here

http://help./help/uk/groups/email/

 

The default message format for Groups email will change to a new, two

column structure called the " fully featured " format. We have also

upgraded the daily digest to make the index clickable and to sort

messages by subject as well as chronologically to make it possible for

users to read only the topics they are interested in and to skip the

rest.

 

We are also maintaining the " Traditional " Groups email format, so users

will have the option to choose the format that works best for them.

 

2) Grouping Messages by Topic (Message Threading): Learn more about it

here http://help./help/uk/groups/messages/

 

The new " group by topic " feature (or " Topic View " ) in the Messages

section and on the Group Home Page enables users to find all the posts

in a specific conversation (or thread) together.

 

3) The advanced search functionality: Learn more about it here

http://help./help/uk/groups/search/

 

The core search functionality has been upgraded. It will now search the

entire message archive of a group, no matter how many messages have been

posted, faster and comprehensively.

 

4) Support for Spam filtering: Learn more about it here

http://help./help/uk/groups/spamfilter/

 

already routes all message through our SpamGuard spam

identification and tags messages identified as potential spam. Now,

these messages will no longer be posted automatically in unmoderated

groups. Instead, they will be put in a special " Pending Spam " folder

where a group owner or moderator can review and either approve or delete

the message.

 

5) Answers Integration: Learn more about it here

http://help./help/uk/groups/answers/

 

Groups will be integrating with Answers through an " Answers

Module " that will appear on the Group Home Page. Groups will have the

ability to choose the specific Answers category that is most relevant to

their group. And as with all functionality on Groups today, it is the

owner/moderator of the group that gets to decide whether an

application appears in the group at all.

 

Please alert your groupmembers to these changes, so they are not

surprised by

either the downtime or the new functionalities.

 

Thank you,

 

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