Posted by Dr. Bob on January 23, 2002, at 18:54:45
In reply to Re: Posting of email addresses » Rick, posted by fi on January 23, 2002, at 9:26:50
> I liked Dr Bob's idea (if I have understood it) that there could be some way of setting up something so you could be emailed by Board members, whilst staying anonymous.
Right, that's on my "to do" list. Think of it as email going to a posting name rather than an email address. It would be "from" the server. Also:
1. The server would automatically include the sender's posting name, so the sender wouldn't be *completely* anonymous. The sender and the recipient would each know the other's posting name.
2. Everyone would have the option of not receiving such emails. The default, in fact, would be not to receive them.
3. If anyone abused this feature, they would be blocked from sending such emails.
How does that sound?
> > If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know. It might make me much less paranoid.
>
> All you have to do to change this is log onto your Yahoo account, the click Options on the left, then click Mail Preferences under "Personalization." Then change the "From Name" at the top to whatever you want people to see next to your address (I just deleted my last name), and click Save at the bottom right. To make sure it's working right, you can send yourself an email.Thanks for explaining that. Hmm, would you mind spelling out exactly how to set up, from scratch, an anonymous Yahoo account that forwards to another account? That might be nice to include in the FAQ...
> Our names on PB seem pretty consistent, and different from each other, so I think its a reasonable assumption that ones with the same 'name' are from the same person.Capitalization doesn't matter in posting names. Once you register a name, you can capitalize it however you like, and no one else can register any of those names. There have been two Bobs, but the first one was before there was a registration system.
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