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Mr Papa said
But you are missing the point of the question. The guests usergroup is a unique, distance usergroup and not like other user groups.

Andy's question was do you get the same behavior if you do it with two normal user groups, ie ones not mapped to the default usergroup.

Yes, I did. I created a normal user group for testing purposes, combined it with the members ug and result was no access to pm. I removed the test user group and result is having access to pm

In testing last night on multiple sites, could not duplicate your issue - the best permission always wins out, not the worst. And no one else has reported similar problem either. But my testing did not use the default guest usergroup and it's non standard to actually put members into this usergroup, so ight be related to this hence the questions.

Not to be misunderstood: I did not put them into the guests user group, they are automatically in the guest user group because of the default mapping. Initially I thought once a user registers thus acquiring membership to the members user group, the guest user group is deleted because no longer needed. As this was not the case , I left it as it was. So far, there was no probllem with this. Only recently, by some action however, this principle stopped working. We were asking ourselves what has been done in this time frame, but nobody could remember that any action has been taken on the forum.

If the right way is to delete them from the guests user group, I'll do that. I do not need dual group memberships.

But anyhow, you have access to the admin area. It can easily be seen in live action there.

You are referring to a 'standard'. Is there a description available how to set up this standard? I never found one and obviously, our understanding of user groups is different from yours.