The Morris Ring Google Group - MRGG
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Joining the MRGG
Google Help
If you have already been signed up to the MRGG and are having problems with accessing the web site part of the
Group, will you please read Google's excellent help page at
http://groups.google.com/support/?hl=en
and try to sort out your own problems rather than emailing the Owners or the Managers of the MRGG.
If you are NOT already signed up ...
Email:
{Group Owner} asking to be added
to the group. Please say which Side you belong to, and, if you are not the Bagman or Squire give the Bagman or Squire's name
and give their name and 'phone or email.
Try to visit the MRGG ...
The Morris
Ring Group. Unless you already have a Google Account (e.g. for email) you will
see this message.
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To Start a Google Account
If you clicked one of the the messages
"Sign in to Google Groups", or "Contact the owner" you will see a message asking you to sign in
to your Google Account, or underneath:
Don't Have a Google Account?
Create an Account Now
Create an Account Now
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Fill in the requested account information.
About the Form to Create a Google Account
Required Information.In the example you give the email address that you
want to use with the Morris Ring Group, and choose a password. NB. Passwords are case sensitive,
Morris is not the same as morris. Watch out for the caps lock on your keyboard!
Get started ...
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A Nickname is useful, but also some indication on
your Google group profile page of your Morris side, will help to identify you, emails alone
are often not very useful. The nickname also tells me that you have created a Google Account.
The "Word Verification" section is to prevent web robots from joining ....!
The "Terms of Service are quite long, I'm afraid that if you read them, don't like them, and decide not set up a Google Account, there is nothing that we can do, and you cannot fully join the MRGG.
If you don't set up a Google Account please note that you will only be able to receive emails.
In your use of the MRGG please note that you must NOT post messages to the Group with file attachments. These must be put in the Files section. If you have problems or other issues, do not post a message to the whole group, contact the Owner.
PLEASE, PLEASE READ MRGG Etiquette
The "Word Verification" section is to prevent web robots from joining ....!
The "Terms of Service are quite long, I'm afraid that if you read them, don't like them, and decide not set up a Google Account, there is nothing that we can do, and you cannot fully join the MRGG.
If you don't set up a Google Account please note that you will only be able to receive emails.
In your use of the MRGG please note that you must NOT post messages to the Group with file attachments. These must be put in the Files section. If you have problems or other issues, do not post a message to the whole group, contact the Owner.
PLEASE, PLEASE READ MRGG Etiquette
Your Google Account Password
NOTE: You MUST use the same email account that you used to set up a Google Account
none other will work. The password you gave for this account IS CASE SENSITIVE
so a password 'Morris' is different from 'morris'.
If you already have a Google Account
e.g. with a gmail or googlemail address, or for any other purpose,
then all that we need to do is add your email to our MRGG. You won't need a separate Google Account or login.
More Information
Google Help
Google have an excellent help page at http://groups.google.com/support/?hl=en Please read this to try to sort out your own problems rather than emailing the Owner of the MRGG or the Managers.Access to the Group - Privacy
This is a private Google Group which is not announced via the Google Groups system. There is nothing to
stop anyone seeing the presence of the group via the Web since it has a web site, but it will not
be indexed or searched and it is not listed by Google (the group is "not categorised"). At present he
following conditions apply:
- Only members can view group content
- Only members can view group members list
- People have to be invited to join {See below}
- Members can create and edit pages
- Members can upload files
- Only members can post
When you login to the MRGG via a Google Account, note that the connection is a secure
one (https), also since everyone has their own password associated with the email that
they use to login, the system does not suffer from the security problems which would occur if there
was one "group" password for 400+ people.
Membership is on an invitation/sign-up only basis. This is
not to exclude Morris Ring members, but is the best system to administer for a private group.
In addition you should find that your email address is not broadcast - only your nickname,
and your actual email address is (poorly!) concealed (e.g. as john.sm...@gmail.com) in your public profile.
Note that you do not have to set up a public profile, but it makes sense to name your Morris side(s)
in your profile.
Receiving and Sending Messages
To . {Put the
mouse over the link and look at the address at the bottom left of the browser frame} Note that
your own email address is NOT visible on the web when you post to the Group. See Google's
Comment about this, here.
From your Profile on the MRGG web site, you can choose whether you want to read and post
messages online via the Group web page, or to use your current email account to read and reply.
The Google Groups system works very well in conjunction with Google's
gmail (now googlemail); for instance you have just one password for both (and other Google services that
you may wish to use). They are free of charge and give you more than 7GBytes of email space.
The MRGG Home Page is at
http://groups.google.com/group/the-morris-ring.Updated: November 3rd 2009