Guide to Using RWV.groups.io

Residents of Riderwood Village can subscribe to a number of email groups, available via the RWV.groups.io email domain. Our email groups are hosted on the groups.io platform, along with numerous other public and private email groups. RWV.groups.io is sponsored by the Riderwood Computer Club, whose volunteers provide administrative support.

Email Groups Available to all Residents

There are currently several email groups available to all Riderwood residents.

Several other Riderwood resident clubs and groups also have their own email groups on RWV.groups.io. Visit the group’s RiderwoodLife.com page or contact the group leaders for information about joining their email groups.

Participating in an Email Group

There are some basic things you need to understand before you join an RWV.groups.io email group.

• After you send your email to the group’s +subscribe address, you may get an email from groups.io with the subject “Confirm Your Groups.io Subscription.” Simply reply to the email to confirm that you want to join the specified email group.
• For your first RWV.groups.io subscription, there may be a delay when you try to subscribe, while your Riderwood residency is confirmed by the volunteer moderators.
• Once you are successfully subscribed, you will receive the group’s Welcome message. If it is your first RWV.groups.io subscription, the Welcome message will not be sent until after your Riderwood residency has been confirmed.
• Since new subscribers are moderated by the Computer Club volunteers to confirm their residency, it is recommended that you use the same email address as listed in the Resident Directory on MyErickson.
• The Computer Club is billed on a per-subscriber basis, so is best to use the same email address to subscribe to any of the RWV.groups.io email groups which interest you.
• To unsubscribe from any RWV.groups.io email group, just send an email to emailgroup+unsubscribe@RWV.groups.io. You will receive a “Confirm your Groups.io Unsubscribe Request” email, and after you reply to that, your email address will be removed from the email group.
• To prevent your group emails from going to your SPAM/JUNK folder, you can add the email address for each group (emailgroup@RWV.groups.io) to your Contacts before you subscribe. If you don’t receive a Welcome message for your subscription to the group, look in your SPAM/JUNK folder, and mark any emails related to your subscription as “not junk”.

Types of Email Groups

Some email groups are simple distribution lists, used only to send out announcements to subscribers. Individual subscribers cannot send emails to these RWV.groups.io distribution list groups, nor can they send a reply to the whole group.

Other email groups support group discussions about various topics of interest to the group, where all subscribers can start new topics by sending an email to the group email address. Subscribers can join existing discussions by replying to the group’s email address instead of just the email sender. For these discussion groups, there are some basic rules of etiquette needed, to focus the emails as intended by the email group sponsors.

• Do not send “test” or “help”messages to the group email address. You can send an email directly to the sponsoring residents, using the group’s +owner email address: emailgroup+owner@RWV.groups.io.
• Keep your new topics focused on the intent of the email group. If you want to discuss other topics, consider sending non-group emails or creating a separate email group for your discussions.
• When replying to an email, use the Group email address ONLY when you have something to say that contributes constructively to the Topic; otherwise, reply just to the sender.
• Keep you messages short, and where appropriate, include links to more detailed information.
• Do not mark group emails as Spam or Junk, since that will affect future emails, as well as the current one, and may cause RWV.groups.io to ban your email address for future emails.

Your Groups.io Account

Every subscriber to any groups.io email group has a groups.io account associated with their email address. While you can send and receive group email messages without logging into your groups.io account, there are some useful features available online.

Logging In to groups.io

Once you have joined some groups.io group, you can view the Message Archives for all of your groups by visiting https://groups.io. You can set up a password if you would like, but on the Log In page, you can also ask for a link to be sent to your email account, so you can login without a password.

While you are not required to use the groups.io website to participate in an RWV.groups.io email group, you can login to your groups.io account to manage your groups.io settings:

• set display and security preferences for your account
• add a Display Name and other personal information to your profile
• visit all of the email groups to which you subscribe
• set email delivery preferences for each different group

Email Delivery Options

The Subscription screen on the group’s page lists the options, so just select the one you’d prefer. The default is “Individual Messages” when you first subscribe.

More Information

If you would like to have an email group on RWV.groups.io for your resident club or group, or you think you’d like to organize a topical email discussion group for residents, then visit RWV Email Groups.

Last updated 6/22/26