Questions & answers

The Mailing List is a tool members of a Meetup Group can use to send each other emails.

If an Organizer turns on the Mailing List for a Meetup Group, then group members who sign up for the mailing list can send emails to all the other group member who've signed up for the Mailing List.

Some notes about Mailing Lists:

• The group's Mailing List is completely different from the emails Organizers and Assistant Organizers send as well as the automatic event reminder emails that the site sends. So if you unsubscribe from the group's Mailing List, you will still get event reminder emails as well as emails from the group Organizer and Assistant Organizers.

• Only the group members who sign up for the Mailing List will receive emails sent to the Mailing List. So a group may have 100 members, but it's possible that only 80 are on the Mailing List. Only Organizers and Assistant Organizers can see which members are on the Mailing List.

• When you send an email to the Mailing List or reply to an email from the Mailing List, every single person on the Mailing List gets a copy. Mailing Lists are for communication between multiple people. Mailing Lists are not for one-to-one communication.

1. Every Meetup Group is assigned a unique email address. That email address can be found on the right hand side of the Group's 'Mailing List' page.
2. A member of a Meetup Group who has subscribed to that Group's Mailing List sends a message to that email address from the address he uses to log on to Meetup.
3. A copy of that email is sent to everyone on the Mailing List within that Group.
4. The email is archived in the Mailing List section of the Meetup Group's site.

The Meetup Group Organizer controls the Mailing list. They can set the Mailing List to:

• OPEN: The Meetup Group has a Mailing List. Messages sent to the Mailing List are delivered immediately.
• MODERATED: The Meetup Group has a Mailing List. Messages sent to the Mailing List are reviewed and approved or declined by the Organizer before they are delivered.
• OFF: The Meetup Group does not have a Mailing List.

Only members of the group who have chosen to be on the Mailing List will receive emails sent to the Mailing List.

1. Go to the home page of the Meetup Group.
2. Click 'Group Settings' on the left side of the page
3. Click 'Optional Features'
4. Select 'Keep message board on'
5. Click 'Submit'

If your group Organizer has turned on the mailing list and you want to receive mailing list messages, go to your Account page, click 'Membership & Communication' on the left side of the page, and adjust your settings accordingly.

Note: Group Organizers can activate, or deactivate, the group's mailing list if they choose. If you're an Organizer, just go to 'Group Settings,' click 'Optional Features,' and adjust the settings in the Mailing List section.

No. You must use the email address you registered with Meetup. This is a security precaution to ensure that only the members of the Meetup Group can use the mailing list.

Yes, in most cases. You can send attachments that are up to 1MB in size.

If the Organizer sets the mailing list to "moderated," or if you have your preferences set to "daily digest," you will not receive attachments.

NOTE: Attachments will not be archived on the site.

Yes:

1. Click 'Account' at the top of the page
2. Click 'Membership & Communication' on the left side of the page
3. Next to each Meetup Group, you'll see "I'd like to receive mailing list messages from?"
4. Select the option you want
5. Click 'Save'

If you select the 'Organizers only' option, you won't get emails that Meetup Group members send the mailing list. You will still get messages that Organizer send the entire Meetup Group and reminders about upcoming Meetups. There's currently no way to stop getting those messages.

Yes. If you send to or reply to the mailing list, your full email address is displayed. If you want to keep your email address hidden, you can contact members through your Meetup Group's Members section.

Yes. Messages sent to the mailing list are archived in the Mailing List section of your Meetup Group.

Note that email addresses of the senders are not displayed in the archive. Instead, the sender's user name is displayed. Also, attachments are not displayed in the archive

Yes.

• Only members of a Meetup can send messages to the mailing list
• New members are restricted to 3 messages per day for their first 3 days of membership
• You can only send 25 messages per day
• You can only send to 3 different mailing lists per day