# Quirk in the Google Mirror on Discourse

**URL:** <https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/quirk-in-the-google-mirror-on-discourse/681>\
**Category:** Google Mirror\
**Created:** [May 5, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/quirk-in-the-google-mirror-on-discourse/681 "2025-05-05T16:36:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonlewit](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/nonsuch.discourse.group/jonlewit/32/725_2.png) [@jonlewit](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/u/jonlewit)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/quirk-in-the-google-mirror-on-discourse/681/1 "2025-05-05T16:36:53Z")

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Sorry - that was sent too soon - to finish that up -

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The cause of the quirk when some Google posts are mirrored on Discourse is due to the **“From”** address in the posts. Every post on Discourse has to belong to some user. When Discourse can decipher an email address in the Google post, it will match it to a current user (if one exists) or create a “staged” (fake) user, based on the email address.

So, it’s perfectly happy with a **From** of:

Mark Powers La Reina 26C Vancouver, B.C. \<[rmp@shaw.ca](mailto:rmp@shaw.ca)\>

(it makes up a username of [Mark\_Powers\_La\_Reina](https://n26-115-233.discourse.group/admin/users/53/mark_powers_la_reina)  
with a name of [Mark Powers La Reina 26C Vancouver, B.C.](https://n26-115-233.discourse.group/admin/users/53/mark_powers_la_reina))

same with

##### Ward Woodruff \<[wwoodruff52@gmail.com](mailto:wwoodruff52@gmail.com)\>

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Where it fails is on a **From** with no email address -

##### ‘Aloki / Oyster Bay NY’ via INA Nonsuch Discussion Group

or

##### ‘Thor Powell, Nonsuch 26, Victoria BC’ via INA Nonsuch Discussion Group

There is no email address to match with a user or to create a staged user. It then defaults to the first user (alphabetically), which was “\_David…”

Since there is no “solution”, the work-around I used was to create a user “\_GoogleGroupUser” to own these posts (and get rid of the “\_” before David’s address).

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There is a several decades old computer programming cartoon - frame one is labeled “BUG” and it has a picture of an ugly looking bug. Frame 2 is labeled “Feature” and it has the same bug dressed in a suit.

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**Best Idea** - get your Discourse account and do postings there - -

> **[The Nonsuch Community Forum](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/invites/Xaf3sdJDr1)**

Fair winds

Jon

N26 #115 - Inua - Kingston, NY