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Re: Problem with the way Groups.io sends group messages

 

Chris,

I have had a read of the topic I hope this is the one you meant.

?There are also much earlier discussions. I cited one of them in that topic.
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I doubt many Yahoo group members know that their email address is sent out to everyone on a list as it is hidden in the header and many of my users would not even know what a header is let alone be able to display it all. Hence their shock when they see From email addresses displayed.

?This would only be true for relatively new users, or those with short memories. Yahoo Groups made this change ?in . Prior to that Y!Groups passed the From field unmodified, as Groups.io does for non-DMARC senders.

You will note that the member's email address is still carried in the From field - but now in the Display portion of it rather than as the email address proper. This has a variety of detrimental effects, depending on each member's email interface and its settings (how it displays the From field).

I assume all subscribers to Groups.io has a unique record number or ID. I seem to have id 1038722 and Richard is 124864. This number is true for my profile and Richard's on two groups.

?There appear to be at least two internal numbers - the posterid, which may be only for users who've posted, and a more general id that sometimes surfaces in URLs as ?
?dmsubid?, which I think is a sequence number for users across the board.

If this is correct then would an option as below be possible and solve some of these issues.

  • An option in the Group settings to allow users to hide/obfuscate their email address on sent emails
  • An option in a subscribers profile to hide/obfuscate their email address on sent emails, if the above is set on
  • If the above are true to send emails from an email address like [email protected] and for the system to match that with the user as required.
Using one of the internal ids may be a useful default? in the event the user hasn't set a User Name in their account. Mark might object that those numbers are intended to be internal only, and he might feel free to re-index the user databases at any time. But maybe not.
The email then does not need the real email address and should retain the users profile name.

?This would eliminate the possibility of members making a direct reply to each other, except through the site. At least in groups set Reply To group.

Unless Groups.io implements generalized forwarding for those alias addresses - which Mark was leery of doing for fear that the forwarding service could become an exploit vulnerability. That is, general forwarding might allow a spammer to send you a message that claimed to come from Groups.io - getting through and/or polluting your spam filter.
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?Shal?


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