About email addresses associated with Google Group membership

[Paul Keating]

John,

John Barrs

Wednesday 9 August 2023 16:00

OK... I think that the address Tim used is mentioned on the group itself - Although I am listed as a manager I am now totally incapable of getting to my information on the group. I would appreciate if one of the managers would access my data and tell me what my data are.

I think you can’t find the information you seek because you have been looking where it is not. There is no list of email addresses (or extended data of any sort) associated with your membership of the group. Your information on the group is to be found at https://groups.google.com/g/dixonary/membership and consists of just 4 pieces of data:

• Display name; which can only be changed if you uncheck...
  
• Link to Google account; which directs the group to get public information (such as display name) from your Google About Me profile; which is at https://myaccount.google.com/profile.
• Email used for membership.
• Subscription (that is: no mail or digest or one email per post).

To set email used for membership Google will offer you a drop-down list of the email addresses for your Google account (not your group membership) that it knows and accepts. This list applies across all of your dealings with Google: Sheets, Docs, Drive, Pay, Groups, Sites and the rest. Only you can see that drop-down list. A group manager can see what address you have chosen, but not any that you might have chosen but didn’t.

If you want to examine or change that list of email addresses, you will find it at https://myaccount.google.com/personal-info under the rubric Contact info. Only you can see or change that list. It independent of your membership of a Google Group, and a group manager has no wider rights over it than anyone else.

Some years back, Google stripped much of the functionality out of Google Groups, leaving it a bulletin board with a bare-bones web interface that lacks even a decent text editor. It may be that the information you have been trying to find in the group was one of the many things that got centralized into your Google Account at that point.

HTH

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Paul Keating
Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

[John Barrs]

Thanks, Paul

I didn't think I was quite stupid but....

JohnnyB

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