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Google Group problems - email address visible [message #88249]

Wed, 02 April 2014 12:17

Andy Sayer
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Registered: February 2009

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I don't know if this is a Google Groups issue specific to this group or not, so thought I'd ask...

I try to set my email address to be invisible every place possible, to prevent e.g. farming by spambots and unsolicited messages. When I Google search this group and look at my posts, I can't see any way to find my email address from my posts. Similarly, Google tech support tell me my address is not publically viewable.

Despite this, about 50% of the time I reply to a thread here I get an email from the thread starter who has inadvertently replied to me rather than to the group. Most of the time they're not aware that the message was sent to me rather than to the group. So clearly, there is some mechanism by which my email address is accessible somehow.

Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know how to make sure my details really are private? I can't find any more privacy settings to check and unfortunately logging into and posting in groups appears to require being logged into my Gmail account. (As mentioned before, contacting Google about this suggests that what is happening to me should not be possible. Eppur si muove.)

Thanks,

Andy

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		Google Group problems - email address visible By: Andy Sayer on Wed, 02 April 2014 12:17
		Re: Google Group problems - email address visible By: Andy Sayer on Wed, 02 April 2014 12:36
		Re: Google Group problems - email address visible By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 02 April 2014 16:28
		Re: Google Group problems - email address visible By: Heinz Stege on Wed, 02 April 2014 16:38
		Re: Google Group problems - email address visible By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 02 April 2014 18:22
		Re: Google Group problems - email address visible By: Heinz Stege on Wed, 02 April 2014 16:23
		Re: Google Group problems - email address visible By: Andy Sayer on Wed, 02 April 2014 16:41
		Re: Google Group problems - email address visible By: Phillip Bitzer on Wed, 02 April 2014 17:59

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