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Groups should be classifiable as Public or Private or something like that.

Submitted by mjflynt on March 10, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

A group requires each member to be added manually and be approved.

A group classified as Public could be optionally allowed to auto accept new members and broadcast group updates to the group network and to your network (per your permissions settings), and a group classified as Private would require the manual acceptance process and only broadcast updates to the members of the group.

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Discussion (3 comments)

.Chris wrote on March 10, 2009, 9:57pm

Makes sence, don't know why microsoft didn't think of this from the start

+1

gregsedwards wrote on March 13, 2009, 12:30pm

They'd have to couple a change like this with much better group membership management tools, cause group owners would suddenly have a lot of administrative work to do.

dino_hsu_1019 wrote on July 6, 2009, 7:26am

This is a good idea, but the 20 members limit should be lifted first.

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