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Jim,

It could be that he simply hit his mail program's "reply to all"
button (not any of the links provided by groups.io).

Nope.

The forwarding member might make that mistake and reply to the group, but the recipient wouldn't have the group's posting address in any field. All of that would have been stripped out by the forwarding member's email interface, leaving the forwarded message with only his own address in the From field.

However, this did spark an idea.

The email application Eudora had a "Redirect" function. It was a little bit like Forward, in that you provide a new destination address, but the redirected message kept (nearly?) all of the other header fields from the original message. Including IIRC a spoof of the original From address. It is possible that the Forwarding member is using a function like that, and then that the recipient clicked "Reply to All". A double fault, but it could have produced the effect of posting the reply to the group.

I know someone that still uses Eudora, perhaps I can arrange to test this idea.

There's an open bug in beta.groups.io about this.

It isn't actually about "this" case (Barry's). That topic has to do with members replying to group postings; Barry's includes the extra step of having the message forwarded to another member.

Shal


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