On 14/01/2020 08:07, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
One of my new groups is getting tons of "Re: reply to subscribe" messages. But they are not subbed! If I approve the message, it
seems to appear as a message. :( However, some seem properly subbed,
as I can click on their email and see that.
I joined your group temporarily (membership is unrestricted), and here's what I think happened.
One person sent a message to the group with the subject line "reply to subscribe" (which he intended to mean "here is my reply in order to subscribe"), but other list members saw the message and thought that it was an instruction (i.e. "reply to this e-mail if you want to confirm that you want to subscribe), and now many members are replying to that original message.
The original sender of the "reply to subscribe" message did not realise that he needs to press REPLY in his mail program in order to confirm his subscription, so he did what some e-mail users nowadays do: he created a *new* e-mail and addressed it to what he considered the originator of the mail that he's "replying" to.
Or, perhaps he clicked a "Reply to group" link at the bottom of one of the group's other mails, which would result in something similar (although he would have needed to edit the subject line).
I'm not sure if it is possible to set a topic as moderated, but if you can do that, you could do that, to prevent further "replies" to that mistaken message from being automatically posted.
Samuel
Samuel Murray