Address Groups

[MATTH]

How do I not disclose all the group members email addresses when I
send an email to a saved group in my address book?

[Ryan Morehart]

One possible solution would be to send the email to yourself and put all of the "real" recipients in the BCC field.

Another option (and perhaps better, depending on the size of the group) is to create a Google Group and add all of the people to that. Then just send your email to the address the Group gives you and all the recipients will see is that address.

Ryan

[compute...@gmail.com]

Also, I discovered you don't have to put yourself in the to field when
BCCing. You can just put nobody and GMail will list it as
"Undisclosed Recipient."

On Feb 7, 6:42 am, "Ryan Morehart" <moreh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One possible solution would be to send the email to yourself and put all of
> the "real" recipients in the BCC field.
>
> Another option (and perhaps better, depending on the size of the group) is
> to create a Google Group and add all of the people to that. Then just send
> your email to the address the Group gives you and all the recipients will
> see is that address.
>
> Ryan
>

[Zack (Doc)]

Yes, but some spam detection systems (read as the one your friend
uses), automatically classify "Undisclosed Recipient" mail as spam and
trash it before the user receives it. Having an address on the To:
line normally gets around this problem.

[Juha Siltala]

On Feb 7, 1:42 pm, "Ryan Morehart" <moreh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Another option (and perhaps better, depending on the size of the group) is
> to create a Google Group and add all of the people to that. Then just send
> your email to the address the Group gives you and all the recipients will
> see is that address.

This sounds like a great idea! I might want to consider that for a
group of colleagues i often need to inform by email. How do you go
about that exactly? Does the group need to be public? I wouldn't want
everyone to read that group's communications :)

[Zack (Doc)]

From the Google Groups pages (where you signed up for this forum, or
just click the link at the bottom of these messages), there is an
option to create a group (where the option is depends highly on which
page you're looking at). If you're using the link at the bottom of
these messages, once there, there's an arrow next to the words "My
Groups" at the top right which has the option at the end. This help
page <http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=46368>
talks you through it.

A group can be as private or public as you like. There are settings
to determine who can read the messages online, who can post, who and
how to join. For example, this group allows public reading of the
messages (e-mail IDs are munged unless you're a member/signed-in),
public can join (but are moderated from posting), only managers can
see the member list, it IS listed in the directory, Managers can
create pages and upload files, members can post messages, managers can
invite new members, and it changes the subject line and adds a footer
when posted to (options). You can read all this at the about page
<http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Users/about>