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Observations around inviting people to a Mesh folder RRS feed

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  • I have recently created a folder to share code snippets and blogged about it thus I'm gettig a lot of people that wat to be added into it. hence I'm sending a lot of invites.

    There's a couple of things I've noticed:
    1. If I accidentally add somene as an owner rather than a contributor (which is what I intended) then there is no way to change that person to a contributor until after they have accepted the invite. If they don't answer until a lot later then I may forgot to go back ad change them from "owner" to "contributor" and hence I have someone in my folder with wrongly elevated permissions. I think you should allow us to change someone's permissions BEFORE they accept the invite
    2. Its possible that someone sends me the wrong email address or (more likely) I could type it in wrong. In this case the email that you send on my behalf containing the invite disappears off into the ether never to be seen again and I will forever have a "pending" invite in my member list. It would be nice if you could tell me that the email address that I entered was erroneous so that I could do something about it.

    Thanks
    Jamie
    http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com/ | http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson
    Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:54 PM

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  • Nice suggestions - on point (2) I wonder if placing some sort of timeout on pending registrations is useful as well? I have some "pending"s that seem to have been there for quite a while...

    Cheers,

    Oren
    Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:59 PM
  • I like both sugegstions, too. The former is much more important, I believe, and an owner should be able to change the settings for an invited member or an actual member at any time, I think.
    For number 2, if no response about an invalid address, it would seem that you should at least have a filter to see pending invites so that you can remove them at any time. Getting a history of what happened when the invite was sent would be good, but the status would at least let you decide to delete an invite or investigate it manually.
    -steve
    Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
    Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:06 PM
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