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Trying to create a freecycle group

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Marilyn All Messages By This Member #34225 I have 3 freecycle groups on Yahoo that I have been trying to create a new group at io. I get an error message that the name is not valid. I searched io and there is not a group already with that name, so why can't I create one? I've sent in a help request, but have not heard back yet. Marilyn
Frances All Messages By This Member #34226 On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 02:21 PM, Marilyn wrote: I have 3 freecycle groups on Yahoo that I have been trying to create a new group at io. I get an error message that the name is not valid. I searched io and there is not a group already with that name, so why can't I create one? I've sent in a help request, but have not heard back yet. Marilyn The group name may be used by a group that has not chosen to appear in the publicly accessible list of groups. Or the name you have chosen may not follow the rues: The Group name must be 34 characters or less and cannot contain spaces, pluses, periods, or underscores. (length verified Mar 8, 2020) See Help also: Note: The name cannot contain spaces, plus signs, slashes, periods, or underscores. (Hyphens are allowed.) It is possible to change this name later but be aware that renaming an existing group has repercussions. (See Renaming groups.) Did you look at the help in starting a group? https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/creating-a-group Frances -- GMF wiki for help. Search box at the top of each page. Check out the new groups.io Help Center Use your browser to search or download the PDF.
Marilyn All Messages By This Member #34227 Thanks but I'm sure the name follows the rules. And it seems odd that a freecycle group would choose to be private..... Seems like I would get an error message that says that name is taken, instead of not valid, if there was already a group with that name. The names I've been trying are.... Freecycle xx xx with xx xx being our location. toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 2:26 PM Frances <frances@...> wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 02:21 PM, Marilyn wrote: I have 3 freecycle groups on Yahoo that I have been trying to create a new group at io. I get an error message that the name is not valid. I searched io and there is not a group already with that name, so why can't I create one? I've sent in a help request, but have not heard back yet. Marilyn The group name may be used by a group that has not chosen to appear in the publicly accessible list of groups. Or the name you have chosen may not follow the rues: The Group name must be 34 characters or less and cannot contain spaces, pluses, periods, or underscores. (length verified Mar 8, 2020) See Help also: Note: The name cannot contain spaces, plus signs, slashes, periods, or underscores. (Hyphens are allowed.) It is possible to change this name later but be aware that renaming an existing group has repercussions. (See Renaming groups.) Did you look at the help in starting a group? https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/creating-a-group Frances -- GMF wiki for help. Search box at the top of each page. Check out the new groups.io Help Center Use your browser to search or download the PDF.
Frances All Messages By This Member #34230 On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 02:33 PM, Marilyn wrote: Thanks but I'm sure the name follows the rules. And it seems odd that a freecycle group would choose to be private..... Seems like I would get an error message that says that name is taken, instead of not valid, if there was already a group with that name. The names I've been trying are.... Freecycle xx xx with xx xx being our location. So it would be freecyclesmallvillekansas or Freecycle-Smallville-Kansas Or a version of these, with or without any caps. No spaces in any versions. No other punctuations. Frances -- GMF wiki for help. Search box at the top of each page. Check out the new groups.io Help Center Use your browser to search or download the PDF.
Christos Psarras Member Profile All Messages By This Member #34241 On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 02:33 PM, Marilyn wrote: Freecycle xx xx with xx xx being our location. No spaces are allowed in the group name (email address), only in the group title. Cheers, Christos
Marilyn All Messages By This Member #34244 No, there were no spaces when I typed it. Those jumped in there somehow by autocorrect or whatever after I typed it. I did some more experimenting, and if I put in a name that was already a group, it said "not available". But I was getting "not valid". If I put in exactly the same name but changed "f" to "ph" it created the group. For instance, in trying to name the group "freecyclelouisville", I get "not valid". But when I put in "phreecyclelouisville", it created the group. I put in the description "Freecycle group for Louisville KY" and that was ok.... So it looks like it won't let us use freecycle in the name.... But there are already lots of groups at io with freecycle as part of the name. I can't figure out why I can't use it. Marilyn toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 3:28 PM Christos G. Psarras <christos@...> wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 02:33 PM, Marilyn wrote: Freecycle xx xx with xx xx being our location. No spaces are allowed in the group name (email address), only in the group title. Cheers, Christos
Frances All Messages By This Member #34251 Glad you found a workaround. I wonder whether someone already tried to create a group with that name - freecyclelouisville, and then abandoned it. Whether the system thinks the name is “taken” when there isn’t actually a group. Frances toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Oct 13 20, at 4:02 PM, Marilyn <banffwego@...> wrote: I put in the description "Freecycle group for Louisville KY" and that was ok.... So it looks like it won't let us use freecycle in the name.... But there are already lots of groups at io with freecycle as part of the name. I can't figure out why I can't use it. -- GMF wiki for help. Search box at the top of each page. Check out the new groups.io Help Center Use your browser to search or download the PDF.
Donald Hellen All Messages By This Member #34255 Frances . . . On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:26:17 -0400, "Frances" <frances@...> wrote: I wonder whether someone already tried to create a group with that name - freecyclelouisville, and then abandoned it. Whether the system thinks the name is “taken” when there isn’t actually a group. Could it be that someone created the group, parked it, and didn't list it publicly? Donald ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM https://groups.io/g/Ham-Antennas https://groups.io/g/HamRadioHelp https://groups.io/g/Baofeng https://groups.io/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main
Marilyn All Messages By This Member #34259 When I tried a group name that was already taken, I got the error message "not available". But when I tried FreecycleLouisville, and other Freecyclexxxx or xxxxxfreecycle, I got the error message "not valid". That seems to me to be 2 different issues. Marilyn toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 7:42 PM Donald Hellen <donhellen@...> wrote: Frances . . . On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:26:17 -0400, "Frances" <frances@...> wrote: >I wonder whether someone already tried to create a group with that name - freecyclelouisville, and then abandoned it. Whether the system thinks the name is “taken” when there isn’t actually a group. Could it be that someone created the group, parked it, and didn't list it publicly? Donald ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM https://groups.io/g/Ham-Antennas https://groups.io/g/HamRadioHelp https://groups.io/g/Baofeng https://groups.io/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main
Duane All Messages By This Member #34469 On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 08:31 PM, Marilyn wrote: That seems to me to be 2 different issues. Someone else is now having a problem creating a group with Freecycle in the name/email, https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/77694487 As I stated over there, I think it's Freecycle.org that has gummed up the works, so reporting it as a #bug on the beta group may get an explanation. Duane -- The official Groups.io user documentation is in the Groups.io Help Center. GMF's Unofficial Help Wiki: https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki
Chris Jones All Messages By This Member #34479 On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 01:52 AM, Duane wrote: so reporting it as a #bug on the beta group may get an explanation This from Mark on beta... Groups.io has received letters from a law firm apparently representing the Freecycle trademark holder in the UK, stating that a particular group with freecycle in the name is infringing on their trademark. I have not yet asked that group to change their name, but I may have to. To head off any new issues, no more groups with freecycle in their name. Note, I have no idea if the demand is legally valid or not. The above is part of #26539. Chris
Anne =^..^= All Messages By This Member #34482 On searching for Freecycle Groups, I see some folks are now using "FreCycle"

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