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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
Help! We have been having a problem with a certain member of our group who continues to post off-topic stuff to our group and refuses to adhere to our group's Posting Guidelnes. We fnally set his subs
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Help! We have been having a problem with a certain member of our group who continues to post off-topic stuff to our group and refuses to adhere to our group's Posting Guidelnes. We fnally set his subs
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Epicatt2
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
If I was in your position I think I would have banned the person concerned some time ago! As things stand at the moment he cannot post but can still receive emails when others post; he therefore has s
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If I was in your position I think I would have banned the person concerned some time ago! As things stand at the moment he cannot post but can still receive emails when others post; he therefore has s
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Chris Jones
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
If he won't follow the groups terms kick him.
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If he won't follow the groups terms kick him.
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Paul Grosse
· #34268
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
Why put up with any of that behavior? warn moderate warn gone. tough love for your sake and members’ sake who don’t need that going on.
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Why put up with any of that behavior? warn moderate warn gone. tough love for your sake and members’ sake who don’t need that going on.
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KWKloeber
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
Seems to me that the trick this member is using could be done even if he's not a member. So along with giving him the boot (which I would certainly do), you will probably need to send a notice to the
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Seems to me that the trick this member is using could be done even if he's not a member. So along with giving him the boot (which I would certainly do), you will probably need to send a notice to the
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Peter Cook
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
== == The thing is that when our problem member replies to an unsuspecting group member the problem member also CCs our group and when the unsuspecting member notices that that in the header the membe
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== == The thing is that when our problem member replies to an unsuspecting group member the problem member also CCs our group and when the unsuspecting member notices that that in the header the membe
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Epicatt2
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
Since there is essentially no way to stop this behavior, an option is to put the group on moderation for some period of time so you can reject any messages that people reply-all to. Hopefully this per
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Since there is essentially no way to stop this behavior, an option is to put the group on moderation for some period of time so you can reject any messages that people reply-all to. Hopefully this per
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Peter Cook
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
Don't forget that he can change his email delivery back again. As I said earlier once he is banned he will not receive group emails, i.e. other member's posts. There will therefore be nothing he can r
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Don't forget that he can change his email delivery back again. As I said earlier once he is banned he will not receive group emails, i.e. other member's posts. There will therefore be nothing he can r
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Chris Jones
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
<peterscottcook@...> wrote: If you don't need to display your messages publicly, you can turn them off so they don't play that trick with your group when they're no longer a member. Donald -----
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<peterscottcook@...> wrote: If you don't need to display your messages publicly, you can turn them off so they don't play that trick with your group when they're no longer a member. Donald -----
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Donald Hellen
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
Good points. I was thinking in terms of the member still having some of the other members' email addresses after he's removed (from old posts), so he could still play the same trick.
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Good points. I was thinking in terms of the member still having some of the other members' email addresses after he's removed (from old posts), so he could still play the same trick.
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Peter Cook
· #34286
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
Our maverick member has now been banned and all our Moderators are aware of the situation. We Moderators will obviously have to manually deal with any further attempts of sneaky piggybacking onto acti
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Our maverick member has now been banned and all our Moderators are aware of the situation. We Moderators will obviously have to manually deal with any further attempts of sneaky piggybacking onto acti
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Epicatt2
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
Donald, we suspect that he while he was a member of our group that he collected a list of our members which he's using to make his sneaky PBing. And because there are so many folks who do not bother t
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Donald, we suspect that he while he was a member of our group that he collected a list of our members which he's using to make his sneaky PBing. And because there are so many folks who do not bother t
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Epicatt2
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Problem with a maverick member
#problem-member
(Actually, the first quote was from me and the second from Donald.) Anyway, it sounds like you're going to have to make some tough decisions, since there isn't anything GIO can do to stop this. I'd pu
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(Actually, the first quote was from me and the second from Donald.) Anyway, it sounds like you're going to have to make some tough decisions, since there isn't anything GIO can do to stop this. I'd pu
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Peter Cook
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