Re: [Gmail-Users] Contact groups: Option other than blind CC to hide individual email addresses

[Nick Chirchirillo]

Your best bet would be to set up a Google Group. This way you would
send and email to grou...@googlegroups.com and that's what people
will see in the "to" field. The problem at first though is getting
people to join the group. You can add them yourself, but if you add
too many, Google does some sort of verification just to make sure you
aren't simply spamming people. However, I'm not sure what that
verification is.

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Nick Chirchirillo
nickchich.com

On Jun 4, 2011, at 10:01 AM, "Special K." <sligosta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, there,
>
> I manage an email distribution list for my condo building and I
> currently use blind CC to hide individual email addresses from other
> recipients when I send emails (an absolute necessity). The margin for
> error worries me, though, and I'm wondering if there is a way to have
> the contact group name in the 'To:' field instead. I've seen other
> people do this from Yahoo accounts, but I can't seem to figure it out
> in Gmail either by poking around or by searching the Internet.
>
> Could anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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[APB]

I don't know of a way to use Gmail to do this per se.

What I've done as a workaround is to set up another Gmail account, where the "name" is specifically that of the group I want to send to, e.g., "Spring-2011 Singers".  So that name/address goes in the "To" field, and all the recipients go in the BCC slot.

The down side if this arrangement is that some people's email systems will designate as spam a message that (1) doesn't show their name as a recipient, and/or (2) has lots of BCC'd recipients.

I'd recommend setting up a Yahoo "group" -- similar to a Google Group, as Nick recommended, but I manage both kinds and prefer Yahoo.  Yahoo allows you to add directly 10 subscriber addresses per day, so it might take you a few days to get everyone in, but then you are set.  People don't need to have Yahoo addresses, and you can set it so that no one except you can see the list of subscribers.  Go to groups.yahoo.com for more explanation.  (I can explain anything there that isn't clear to you.)

--APB

[Special K.]

Thanks for the info. I appreciate it.

On Jun 4, 7:51 pm, APB <apba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know of a way to use Gmail to do this per se.
>
> What I've done as a workaround is to set up another Gmail account, where the
> "name" is specifically that of the group I want to send to, e.g.,
> "Spring-2011 Singers".  So that name/address goes in the "To" field, and all
> the recipients go in the BCC slot.
>
> The down side if this arrangement is that some people's email systems will
> designate as spam a message that (1) doesn't show their name as a recipient,
> and/or (2) has lots of BCC'd recipients.
>
> I'd recommend setting up a Yahoo "group" -- similar to a Google Group, as
> Nick recommended, but I manage both kinds and prefer Yahoo.  Yahoo allows
> you to add directly 10 subscriber addresses per day, so it might take you a
> few days to get everyone in, but then you are set.  People don't need to
> have Yahoo addresses, and you can set it so that no one except you can see
> the list of subscribers.  Go to groups.yahoo.com for more explanation.  (I
> can explain anything there that isn't clear to you.)
>
> --APB
>