Technical FAQs

This page provides answers to some of the most frequently asked technical questions.

If you have questions that are not answered below OR on your individual list pages, please email your list moderator.

1. What is Shared Weight running on?
As of December 2025, Shared Weight’s mailing lists are running on Groups.Io. (We were previously on Mailman3.)

2. How do I join list?
All you need is an email address. Each list has a sign-up page.  You can join the list by filling out the Join page.  (The links are on the list’s page.)  Creating a (free) account at groups.io is optional.  If you do, it will allow you to manage your own delivery settings and see private archives.

3. Want to create a Shared Weight Groups.Io account?
Having an account lets you manage lots of settings (e.g., sign up for digests).
Plus,  you need to have an account to view archives of the private Shared Weight groups.

1. Go to groups.io.
2. In the top right hand corner, click on “Sign Up”.
3. Enter the email address you use for Shared Weight and then make up a password. Then hit “create an account”.
4. Follow the instructions in the confirmation email you will receive.

4. Forgot your Shared Weight username or password?

1. Go to https://groups.io/login
2. Click the “Forgot your password” link under the password box
3. Type in the address that you use for your Shared Weight list(s) and click the “Email me a link to log in” button’.
4. Go to your email inbox and follow the instructions in the email.

The default setting for each list is that you receive each individual email message separately. The digest setting bundles emails together – usually once per day when there’s activity.  You can still participate and respond to messages, this simply minimizes the number of emails in your inbox. To get the digest version, you can either change the settings yourself or email the list moderator for help.

If you want to change regular vs digest, here’s how you do it:

1. Log into your groups.io account.
2. Along the top blue bar, click on “ Your Groups” and then in that menu, select “Manage My Subscriptions”.
3. You will then see a list of all Shared Weight lists that you are subscribed to. (Ignore the main list as everyone who participates on any Shared Weight list is by default put into that main list.)
4. Go to the Shared Weight list that you want to change delivery for and click on Subscriptions / Settings on the left.
5. Select which delivery type you want and then scroll all the way to the bottom and hit save.