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Strange thing happened with a Group reply - any ideas how this could have happened? #bug
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Jane Valencia
Hi, we had a strange occurrence on our list. In replying to a thread about a wedding email scam (where scammers are emailing performers to play for a fake wedding), one of our members had this experience:
"I replied to the wedding scam post by hitting "reply to group", and a strange thing happened. It sent to our list address and to the sender of the message [both addresses are quoted and correct]
BUT it never posted, and instead I got an email from someone named [name quoted] at a completely different address, saying she had received the email and does not know me."
I looked into our members, and the person's name and address are not on our list -- not even similar to anyone else's. I emailed her and she has no idea what our list is. The mystery person has an aol.com address, if that's helpful. What could have happened? The situation makes no sense to me. Is this a bug somehow triggered by the content about the spam? On the other hand, this thread has been 'live' for a while as a topic on our list. Thank you, Jane Valencia harplist Owner/Moderator
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On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 10:58 AM, Jane Valencia wrote:
You hit "reply to group". On the group homepage, or by email? Did you check "activity"? https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/reviewing-the-group-s-activity-log Frances -- GMF wiki for help. Search box at the top of each page. Check out the new groups.io Help Center Use your browser to search or download the PDF.
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Stan Gorodenski
Related to this, have some in this group experienced not having received emails of a post in this group? I had emailed a question to this group but do not recall ever having received subsequent posts of that topic, and there probably were 3-5 of them. Maybe I just did not realize the messages for what they were and deleted them. That is always a possibility. Or it may be a problem with my IP. Each morning I have to check their spam folder to release messages, and in the past I have never received messages I should have or they have come through a week or two later. If no one else has experienced this then it must be my mistake or maybe a problem with my IP.
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Stan
On 10/25/2020 7:56 AM, Jane Valencia wrote:
Hi, we had a strange occurrence on our list. In replying to a thread about a wedding email scam (where scammers are emailing performers to play for a fake wedding), one of our members had this experience:
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Chris Jones
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 03:56 PM, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
Related to this, have some in this group experienced not having received emails of a post in this group?This post of mine on beta may describe the source of the problem. Chris
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Jane,
no clue what may have happened, but just curious, On 2020-10-25 10:56,
Jane Valencia via groups.io wrote:
Hi, we had a strange occurrence on our list. In replying to a thread about a wedding email scam (where scammers are emailing performers to play for a fake wedding), one of our members had this experience: Why are you allowing a thread like that to post to / stay in the group archives? If you know it's spam, delete the message/thread asap so it doesn't propagate and cause potential downstream problems. Cheers, Christos
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Chris Jones
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 04:40 PM, Christos G. Psarras wrote:
If you know it's spam, delete the message/thread asap so it doesn't propagate and cause potential downstream problemsI think it was about spam rather than being spam itself.. Chris
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Hi Stan
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Firstly, no I have not noticed the problem you describe However, when did you post the question with three to five replies you did not receive? Searching this groups messages I do not see a recent message from you Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)
On 25/10/2020 15:40, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
Related to this, have some in this group experienced not having received emails of a post in this group? I had emailed a question to this group but do not recall ever having received subsequent posts of that topic, and there probably were 3-5 of them. Maybe I just did not realize the messages for what they were and deleted them. That is always a possibility. Or it may be a problem with my IP. Each morning I have to check their spam folder to release messages, and in the past I have never received messages I should have or they have come through a week or two later. If no one else has experienced this then it must be my mistake or maybe a problem with my IP.
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Jane Valencia
The person who reported it replied by email. Checking the activity log just now (thank you for that suggestion) I see that her post did show up on the group. I'm quite puzzled. As far as I can tell, this has only happened to her.
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Jane Valencia
That's right, Chris. The message thread is about spam and is not spam. I included the detail about the message thread content just in case it might be relevant. Jane
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