Cleaning Addresses out of Forwards

[Dellbert McApple]

Hey, Smart People –
My Gmail-using kids are unthinkingly broadcasting to the world the
email addresses of many, many friends and strangers, a practice I want
to discourage.
Would someone please create a “wipe” feature that can simply delete
from the body of these address-engorged messages all characters
contiguous with “@”?
- Thanks from Me (and undisclosed recipients)

['HJ' Martin]

As long as they use BCC after the first address, nothing else is
visiable. This will help somewhat. "OR" Lock-Up the
keyboard......HJ

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[josan48]

LOCK UP THE KEYBOARD, OR GET THEM THEIR OWN COMPUTER.

On Nov 17, 8:06 pm, "'HJ' Martin" <hjfin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As long as they use BCC after the first address, nothing else is
> visiable.  This will help somewhat.   "OR"  Lock-Up the

[Andy]

Hmm, you asked about wiping those addresses from the BODY of the message.

Teaching them to use BCC won't help with that.

Teaching everyone who sends them an email to use BCC, would partly help,
because when your kids forward those messages on, most of the addresses
wouldn't be in the body of the forwarded message.

I have not seen a tool to strip email addresses from message text (but
wouldn't be surprised if one exists). I do know that Yahoogroups does this
whenever you post a message via their web interface. But that is built into
Yahoogroups.

Are your kids old enough to be taught about safe web surfing? If not, maybe
a locked keyboard would be the better idea.

Andy

[peabody]

I just us BCC when I send to a lot of people who might not know each
other. Avoids this problem.

[North Country Maturing Gardener]

Can't the addresses be erased from the outgoing message? That's what
I always do, but actually, I don't really know if that works. I guess
I should try sending one to myself. I ALWAYS use Bcc when I send to a
group, and encourage everyone else to do the same.
Along those same lines, if you get an email where you are blind copied
and you "return to all" do all the bcc'd folks get the message?
Someone told me that, and I'd really never thought about it. It would
be good to know.

[JohnW]

> Along those same lines, if you get an email where you are blind copied
> and you "return to all" do all the bcc'd folks get the message?
> Someone told me that, and I'd really never thought about it.  It would
> be good to know.

NCMG - No, when you Reply to All, the To: goes to the Sender of the
incoming message, and the Cc: to anyone on the Cc: of the incoming
message.
It can't go to the other Bcc: recipients, because their details are
not included in the message that you receive!

But can I advise everyone using Bcc: only to add their own name/
address in the To: field, rather than send it with that field being
blank!!

[Zack (Doc)]

Having your own name on the To: line is nearly as bad as being completely blank.  Some poor spam detection engines will automatically flag a message that's "to" the same person it's "from" as spam if the person receiving it is purely "bcc".  It's best to have another address to use as the to; either someone you know's address that doesn't mind being out there, or some other address of yours that you can use.

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[North Country Maturing Gardener]

Thanks for that piece of advice. I usually leave the To: field
blank. I'll put my name there from now on.
Good information. Thanks!

[Marko Vukovic]

Guys

Dellbert is talking about addresses that appear in the message *body*
when one forwards an email, ie this stuff:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: JohnW <john.w...@gmail.com>
Date: 2009/11/20
Subject: [Gmail-Users] Re: Cleaning Addresses out of Forwards
To: Gmail-Users <gmail...@googlegroups.com>


Cheers
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Marko

[Dellbert McApple]

Thanks for help with clarification, Marko.
These forwards arrive with many layers of addresses embedded into the
BODY of the text. My kids pass them along (however blindly) but don't
always take the time to strip out the clutter. I'm looking for a
simple app for otherwise thoughtful kids (and several well-meaning
adult friends of mine) that might be more thorough than copy/paste of
the original content.

[Zack (Doc)]

In GMail, there's a lab called "Quote selected text"  I use that sometimes and it just only quotes what you have selected, and would at least eliminate the previous forwards... it's still up to your kids or other senders to remember to manually edit out the most recent group of forwards.

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