There are 17 people on the same message forum on our class website. The administrators of the site can't figure out how this happened. Nobody else has joined the forum. How did this happen. I am an administrator.

Michael,

No, there are 17 people on a Message Center message, NOT A "MESSAGE FORUM"

When one classmate decided to send an email to another classmate through the Message Center, they decided to add multiple classmates to the email. Each time one of the classmates responds, it goes to everyone on the distribution list. No new classmates can be added to the email and no classmates can be deleted from being included on the email. In order for it to stop, everyone needs to not reply to anyone using that Message Center message.

It is not a forum. It is a private discussion email and nobody else can join it.