Re: Group Hacked
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Michelle, This person is posting nasty emails to the group as if they are me. If those posts appear in the group's Messages pages then the person is either logged in to Groups.io as you and posting via the web interface, or far more likely posting by email and spoofing your email address. If those posts are arriving to you by email but not arriving in the group's Messages pages then the person is simply emailing messages directly to you (and perhaps others), with or without spoofing your address. In none of the above cases has the group itself been "hacked". I put myself ( group owner) on moderated emails, so I have to approve my emails before they get through to the group. That's a good response. I keep myself on moderation in every group I own or moderate in part for this reason. The other reason is that I am sometimes glad I had a chance to review what I wrote before it goes out.
That probably wasn't necessary, but it is a good precaution in the less likely case that the woman was using your Groups.io account to post. To find out you could look in your group's Activity log. The offending messages would be shown as: ... sent message ... via email ? or
... sent message
... via web. The first ... would be your email address, the second ... would be the Subject line of the message.
Another way to tell would be to look in the header of the offending messages (View Source, or Show Original, or some option like that, depending on your email interface) to see if the message originated from the Web Poster or via email. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Shal Farley