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Re: Google Group problems - email address visible [message #88258 is a reply to message #88257]

Wed, 02 April 2014 16:41

Andy Sayer
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Registered: February 2009

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Thanks guys. Well, that's a bummer. I use the gmail for personal stuff and since everything Google is now lumped in together as one sign-in, will have to look into a different reader and throwaway email account for this. Too bad!

In the Google interface, headers etc aren't displayed so I don't see who anyone is (aside from those who post with a signature).

Andy

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 7:23:52 PM UTC-4, Heinz Stege wrote:
> Hi Andy.
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>
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> On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 12:17:25 -0700 (PDT), AMS wrote:
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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...
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>> 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.
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> Googles tech support seems not to be right. It's true, that I can't
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> see your email address by using Googles web interface. However
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> normally I use (as many other people do) a newsreader client, which is
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> downloading the messages from a news server. (News groups are no
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> invention by Google. Google sends your messages to the other News
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> server on this world by the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) [see
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNTP], so that everybody can read it.)
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> And the header of your messages does contain your full email address.
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> (If you like to see it, I can sent you the header of your message by
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> mail.)
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> I think, it is okay, that the message headers contain the email
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> addresses of the sender. At least this is the standard. My solution to
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> prevent spam, is to use a special email address for news groups, so
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> that my email program puts the mails with this email address directly
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> and quietly into the spam folder. From time to time I take a look into
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> the folder to see, if there is something, which I should read.
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> Cheers, Heinz

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[Message index]

		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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