John Ricci's dashboard

I have two problems. They may just be changes that LinkedIn made to discourage active users...who knows
1) I used to be able to accept several invitations at a time: no longer since, LinkedIn changed the inbox format...also used to have messages and inmails grouped separately, but I guess LI decided that people should really not have it too easy..
2) I run a coupel of groups. The functionality of accepting several requests to join at the same time by checking the box at the top of the names (the box that if you chewck it every other box underneath gets checked) no longer works for me
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J Ricci