Manage your subscriptions and groups

You might belong to a lot of groups, and have access to even more. Use these tips to stay organized and manage your groups.

In this section, you learn how to: Mark groups and messages as favorites View and edit membership settings Approve or block new messages Remove or ban people from a group

Mark groups and messages as favorites

You can mark groups and messages as favorites to make them easy to find. Favorite groups appear in the Favorites list on the left menu.

Favorites are account-specific. When you mark an item as a favorite, it appears as a favorite in your account only. It doesn't appear as a favorite for anyone else.

View and edit membership settings

Your subscription settings determine whether and how you receive email from groups. Global settings let you choose whether to receive notifications and invitations, change your display language, and check your bounce status.

Manage your subscriptions

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click My membership settings.
4. For Subscription, choose an option:
   • Each email—Messages are sent individually as they’re posted to the group.
   • Digest—Up to 25 complete messages are combined into single emails and sent daily.
   • Abridged—Summaries of up to 150 messages are combined into single emails and sent daily.
   • No email—Messages from the group are not sent.

   To receive abridged summaries or digests of a group’s messages, you must turn on conversation history for the group.

5. Click Save changes.

Manage your global settings

Approve or block new messages

You can approve or block new messages before they're sent to the rest of the group using message moderation.

Note: Posts sent by super administrators always bypass message moderation and are posted without requiring approval, even if the super admin sends a message from a delegated non-admin email account. The only exceptions are messages marked as spam. The system does not send these messages.

Turn on message moderation

Group owners and moderators can turn message moderation on or off and specify which users' messages are required to go through moderation.

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click Group settingsPosting policies.
4. Select your moderation options. For:

   • Message moderation—Choose a review option: Moderate all messages, Moderate messages from non-members, or No moderation.
   • New member restrictions—To review messages from new members, select New member posts are moderated.

   Note: When message moderation is turned on, moderation requests are always visible to group owners. Group managers and members might see moderation requests based on the group settings.

5. (Optional) To send a notification when a moderated message is rejected, for Rejected message notification, click On.
6. Click Save changes.

If message moderation isn't working the way you expect, see Troubleshoot unexpected moderation behavior.

Approve or reject pending messages

Requires the Who can moderate content permission.

Block people from replying to conversations

You can create a new conversation and prevent people from replying to it if you don’t want responses. You can also prevent people from replying to existing conversations.

For details, see Lock conversations.

Remove or ban people from a group

You can remove a user who’s already a member of a group, or ban a user from joining a group.

Remove members from a group

Requires the Who can manage members permission.

If you remove a member from a group, they no longer receive email addressed to the group. Removing a member does not delete the user's account. If you remove the group owner, the group still works.

Ban users from a group

Requires the Who can manage members permission.

You can ban people from a group to prevent them participating in that group. When you ban a person from a group, they can see or search for that group but can't be added or invited to join unless you unban them.

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. To ban an existing member:
   1. On the left, click Members.
   2. Point to a member name and check the box.
   3. Click Ban member .
4. To ban non-members:
   1. In the left panel, click PeopleBanned users.
   2. In the Ban users field, enter names or email addressesclick Ban users.

View banned users or unban users

Requires the Who can manage members permission.

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. In the left panel, click PeopleBanned users.
4. Choose an option:
   • To unban a user, in the user entry on the right, click Un-ban user .
   • To unban multiple users, check the box next to the userabove the list to the right, click  Un-ban user  .