J,
She was apparently simply hitting "reply" to the automatically sent
"pending member notice," which comes from the +owner address.
I was hoping for more direct evidence of the actual address in the sent message. The inference here relies on her memory and/or the behavior of her email user interface.
HOWEVER: I have since discovered that there's a logged "nonsubscriber
message" from her at around that time, and I've asked Mark offlist to
check the address the message was sent to.
Either way, there's a problem. If she sent it to the group instead of
the +owner address, it should have been logged as "message from pending
sub" - but it wasn't.
Is that a thing? That is, Pending as distinguished from Non-subscriber? I've not seen that, but then the only restricted groups I run aren't active here yet (haven't performed the Easy Group Transfer, so as yet they're just placeholders).
There's not a separate item for that in the Actions drop-down for search, but perhaps those would be included in the Non-subscriber Message item.
If, OTOH, she did send it to the +owner address, then it should not have been logged as "message from nonsubscriber."
The examples of non-subscriber messages to +owner I have are logged simply as:
[address] sent message [subject] to owners
I think asking her to take part in experiments would be inappropriate.
She has a very sick cat and is really stressed out.
I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure your discretion in the matter will be appreciated. I suppose that's not an unlikely circumstance given the nature of your group.
Shal
Shal Farley