Frequently Asked Questions

1. Every Meetup is assigned a unique email address. For example, pug.meetup.com/45 would get pug-45@meetup.com.



2. A Meetup member sends a message to the email address.



3. The message is emailed to everyone on the mailing list.



4. The message is archived in the Messages section of your Meetup's site.

Each Organizer controls who can send messages to a mailing list. They can set it to:

• OPEN: All members can send messages to the mailing list.



• MODERATED: All members can use the mailing list, but the Organizer must approve messages first.



• OFF: No One can use the mailing list.

Only members of a group who have chosen to be on the mailing list.

A Group Organizer can deactivate their group's mailing list if they so choose.

To turn on your group Message Board:

1. Go to http://www.meetup.com/ and log on to your account



2. Go to the home page of the Meetup Group.



3. Next to 'Messaging Settings', click 'Edit & learn more'



4. Select 'Turn on my Meetup's Message Board'



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 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 Organizer Help & Tools > Settings.

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 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, from your Account page. You can set your mailing list options to:

• ALL: From everyone, immediately



• DIGEST: From everyone, daily digest (i.e., all messages from that day in one email)



• ORGANIZER-ONLY: Only special announcements from Organizers and Ass't Organizers

Of course. You can change your subscription preferences from your Account page.

To be clear: only members of the Meetup who have subscribed to the mailing list will receive these messages.

Yes -- all group members still receive important messages from the Organizer.

The "Email Meetup" form gives Organizer(s) the ability to send a broadcast e-mail to the *entire* Meetup. Not all members may be signed up for the mailing list. So if you want an announcement to go to everyone, use the Email Meetup form (or send email to your announcement email address)

If you would like to start a discussion between members, you should use the mailing lists.

With message boards, members have to log on to Meetup and remember to check the message board. It's harder to use, which means that fewer people participate in discussions.

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's Members section.

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

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