Re: New poll for Loving-what-is

[Guest guest]

I vote for not using hiding enabled. I think it creates more problems

than it solves. Just my two cents worth.

On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 08:40 AM, Loving-what-

is wrote:

>

> Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the

> Loving-what-is group:

>

> Hello, everyone.

>

> It has been requested that I turn on the

> e-mail address hiding feature of this

> Yahoo group so that members can hide

> their e-mail addresses. This feature

> prevents users' e-mail addresses from

> appearing in messages sent to other

> members of the group. With this poll,

> I'd like to invite feedback from the

> group as to whether this is something

> the group as a whole would want. There

> are a number of issues to consider in

> making this decision:

>

> - Once address hiding is turned on, it

> cannot be turned off. (This is because

> it essentially represents a guarantee to

> those members who choose to use it that

> their e-mail addresses will not be

> released through this group. Having made

> the guarantee, Yahoo will not allow us

> to renege on it.)

>

> - Yahoo offers some protection for

> e-mail addresses already, without the

> address hiding feature. Specifically,

> addresses displayed in the list of group

> members and in messages in the archive

> have the form " tbarron@m... " so complete

> e-mail addresses cannot be retrieved

> from those pages. The exception is that

> your e-mail address will be presented in

> it entirety when you are logged in.

> Thus, if you want to verify this point,

> look at someone else's address.

>

> - Since address hiding cannot be turned

> off once turned on, enabling the address

> hiding option will permanently disable

> the Polls feature (the ability to

> conduct votes like this one).

>

> - If address hiding is enabled, users

> who choose to hide their addresses will

> only be able to post through the

> website. They would not be able to post

> messages to the group via e-mail.

>

> - Making direct responses to members

> who choose to hide their address will be

> more difficult -- you'd have to go to

> the website and click on their name to

> generate an e-mail to them. Simply using

> your mail program's Reply feature

> wouldn't work since their reply address

> would not be available in the message

> you received from them.

>

> Let me know what you think... Thanks...

>

> Tom

>

> o Please enable address hiding. I want to use it.

> o I won't use it myself, but I would like address hiding enabled.

> o I don't think we need address hiding. Yahoo's default protections

> are good enough.

>

>

> To vote, please visit the following web page:

>

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Loving-what-is/surveys?id=11521162

>

> Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are

> not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups

> web site listed above.

>

> Thanks!

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

>I vote for: I don't think we need address hiding. Yahoo's default protections

> are good enough.

>On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 08:40 AM, Loving-what-

>is wrote:

>

>>

>> Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the

>> Loving-what-is group:

>>

>> Hello, everyone.

>>

>> It has been requested that I turn on the

>> e-mail address hiding feature of this

>> Yahoo group so that members can hide

>> their e-mail addresses. This feature

>> prevents users' e-mail addresses from

>> appearing in messages sent to other

>> members of the group. With this poll,

>> I'd like to invite feedback from the

>> group as to whether this is something

>> the group as a whole would want. There

>> are a number of issues to consider in

>> making this decision:

>>

>> - Once address hiding is turned on, it

>> cannot be turned off. (This is because

>> it essentially represents a guarantee to

>> those members who choose to use it that

>> their e-mail addresses will not be

>> released through this group. Having made

>> the guarantee, Yahoo will not allow us

>> to renege on it.)

>>

>> - Yahoo offers some protection for

>> e-mail addresses already, without the

>> address hiding feature. Specifically,

>> addresses displayed in the list of group

>> members and in messages in the archive

>> have the form " tbarron@m... " so complete

>> e-mail addresses cannot be retrieved

>> from those pages. The exception is that

>> your e-mail address will be presented in

>> it entirety when you are logged in.

>> Thus, if you want to verify this point,

>> look at someone else's address.

>>

>> - Since address hiding cannot be turned

>> off once turned on, enabling the address

>> hiding option will permanently disable

>> the Polls feature (the ability to

>> conduct votes like this one).

>>

>> - If address hiding is enabled, users

>> who choose to hide their addresses will

>> only be able to post through the

>> website. They would not be able to post

>> messages to the group via e-mail.

>>

>> - Making direct responses to members

>> who choose to hide their address will be

>> more difficult -- you'd have to go to

>> the website and click on their name to

>> generate an e-mail to them. Simply using

>> your mail program's Reply feature

>> wouldn't work since their reply address

>> would not be available in the message

>> you received from them.

>>

>> Let me know what you think... Thanks...

>>

>> Tom

>>

>> o Please enable address hiding. I want to use it.

>> o I won't use it myself, but I would like address hiding enabled.

> > o I don't think we need address hiding. Yahoo's default protections

> > are good enough.

>>

>>

>> To vote, please visit the following web page:

>>

>>

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>>

>> Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are

>> not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups

>> web site listed above.

>>

>> Thanks!

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

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