Posted by mair on January 22, 2002, at 7:57:16
In reply to Re: Posting of email addresses » Rick, posted by jane d on January 21, 2002, at 23:40:59
> Rick - for the most part it never occurred to me to post my email address. I would have a hard time presuming that anyone would want to communicate with me other than on the Board. On one occasion I had a problem that I couldn't discuss on the Board and I solicited an email response. That has resulted in a fruitful email "friendship" with one poster, which continues.
Beyond this, I have a problem with the yahoo account I set up really for the use on this Board, although I use it for most of my personal email. When I set it up, I gave yahoo all of the information they requested including my name. I didn't realize, stupidly, that yahoo would include that information next to my address in all of my emails. This means that anyone I email automatically learns my real name, thereby destroying the confidentiality feature. I've been trying without success to change this. It doesn't seem to be one of the standard edits that can be self-completed for my yahoo account, and it isn't included in any of the standard FAQs. I've emailed yahoo, but I'm not sure this is going to yield results.
If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know. It might make me much less paranoid.
Mair
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