Mailing list owners moving from the legacy Mailman server over to Google Groups may want to reference the example provided here.
1. Group Settings > General
Enable additional Google Groups features: No additional features
Who can see group:
- Organization members (only @lehigh account holders can search for the group)
- Anyone on the web (Anyone can search for the Group and see that it exists)
Who can join group:
- Invited users only
- Organization users only
- Organization users can ask
- Organization users can join, everyone else must ask
- Anyone can ask
- Anyone can join
Allow external members:
- OFF limits membership to @lehigh.edu account holders (even if you send an invite)
- ON allows people at other institutions to join the group
Who can view conversations: Group members
Who can post: Group members
Who can view members: Group members
2. Member Privacy
Who can contact group owners: Group members
Who can view member email addresses: Group managers
3. Posting Policies
Allow Email Posting: CHECK
Allow Web Posting: CHECK
Conversation history: ON
Who can reply privately to authors: Group members
Who can attach files: Group members
Who can moderate content: Group managers
Who can moderate metadata: Group managers
Who can post as group: Group managers
Default sender: Group address
Message moderation: Moderate all messages (all messages must be reviewed and approved)
New member restrictions: No (additional) posting restrictions for new members
Spam message handling: Moderate and notify content moderators
Rejected message notification: ON
Include default rejected message response: This message will be emailed to people whose posts are rejected by moderation e.g. “This is a moderated list. Any posts that do not meet our guidelines will not be accepted. If you believe your post was incorrectly moderated, please contact xxx@lehigh.edu”
4. Email Options
Subject prefix: e.g. [$GroupName$ - ]
Email footer: Include the standard Groups footer
Auto replies: UNCHECK all.
Post replies to: Sender chooses recipient, or consider using "All group members" to allow most open conversation among group members.
5. Member Moderation
Who can manage members: Group managers
Who can modify custom roles: Group owners
