Visibility of email addresses when posting in this group

So as a newcomer to this group (and this is one of the first Google groups where I'm posting) I've noticed that the posts that I and some others make display my gmail address(es).

My questions regarding this are:

-Is there a privacy concern? Can my email addresses end up to spam bots from this site (or another Google group for that matter)?
-Is there a way to hide the email?
-Is there anything I can do to revert/remove the email addresses in the posts that I've made already (in few threads)?
-Have you done anything about the issue worth mentioning here?

On 16.08.16 09.20, Matti Viljamaa wrote:
> So as a newcomer to this group (and this is one of the first Google groups where I'm posting) I've noticed that the posts that I and some others make display my gmail address(es).

Well, this question should have been posted into another group. It is 
not related to DSPs.

> My questions regarding this are:
>
> -Is there a privacy concern? Can my email addresses end up to spam bots from this site (or another Google group for that matter)?

You will get spam this way.

> -Is there a way to hide the email?

Use another address for this purpose. It may be a disposable email address.

> -Is there anything I can do to revert/remove the email addresses in the posts that I've made already (in few threads)?

No, not really. You can cancel your posts, but some servers ignore 
cancellations, and bots may already have done their job.

> -Have you done anything about the issue worth mentioning here?

[X] Disposable address. Current counter is approx. 90,000, probably 
almost all spam. But the counter is running for > 15 years.


Marcel

I could delete the posts that I've made from emails that I wouldn't want to display, but that would ruin the threads :/

I could delete the posts that I've made from emails that I wouldn't want to display, but that would ruin the threads :/ 

I also thought about doing this post specifically here, in case the moderator of this site might have something to say.

Matti Viljamaa <viljamaadsp@gmail.com> writes:

> So as a newcomer to this group (and this is one of the first Google
> groups where I'm posting) I've noticed that the posts that I and some
> others make display my gmail address(es).

You should also be aware that what you are posting to is not a Google
group.  It is something called Usenet.  Google provides a portal to
Usenet, but many of us are not using the web at all to access this
group.

Scott
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Scott Hemphill	hemphill@alumni.caltech.edu
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mavaviljggroup@gmail.com writes:

> I could delete the posts that I've made from emails that I wouldn't
> want to display, but that would ruin the threads :/
>
> I also thought about doing this post specifically here, in case the
> moderator of this site might have something to say.

There is no site, and this group is not moderated.

Scott
-- 
Scott Hemphill	hemphill@alumni.caltech.edu
"This isn't flying.  This is falling, with style."  -- Buzz Lightyear

Marcel Mueller  <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> wrote:

>On 16.08.16 09.20, Matti Viljamaa wrote:

>> -Is there anything I can do to revert/remove the email addresses in
>the posts that I've made already (in few threads)?

>No, not really. You can cancel your posts, but some servers ignore 
>cancellations, and bots may already have done their job.

You can delete any of your posts from Google (how to do this should be
clear from the Google Groups interface).  They will still exist
on other servers.

Steve

On 16.08.2016 14:38, Scott Hemphill wrote:
> Matti Viljamaa <viljamaadsp@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> So as a newcomer to this group (and this is one of the first Google
>> groups where I'm posting) I've noticed that the posts that I and some
>> others make display my gmail address(es).
>
> You should also be aware that what you are posting to is not a Google
> group.  It is something called Usenet.  Google provides a portal to
> Usenet, but many of us are not using the web at all to access this
> group.
>
> Scott
>

"Not using the web at all" sounds like my best attempt to have a proper 
work ethics. ;-)

Gene

Matti Viljamaa sent:
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|"So as a newcomer to this group [. . .]"|
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Dear Matti Viljamaa:

Welcome.

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|"[. . .]                                |
|-Is there a way to hide the email?      |
|[. . .]"                                |
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An email account is not necessary to post to a Usenet newsgroup such
as  news:comp.dsp

Usenet clients do not check whether or not an email address is in a
From field. For example I am using the Usenet client Alpine (
  WWW.Washington.edu/alpine/
) and I typed something that is not an email address into this From
field as an axample for thee.

Thy sincerely,
Colin Paul de Gloucester

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:20:57 -0700, Matti Viljamaa wrote:

> So as a newcomer to this group (and this is one of the first Google
> groups where I'm posting) I've noticed that the posts that I and some
> others make display my gmail address(es).
> 
> My questions regarding this are:
> 
> -Is there a privacy concern? Can my email addresses end up to spam bots
> from this site (or another Google group for that matter)?
> -Is there a way to hide the email?
> -Is there anything I can do to revert/remove the email addresses in the
> posts that I've made already (in few threads)?
> -Have you done anything about the issue worth mentioning here?

This is a USENET newsgroup.  Google aliases them to make them look like 
Google's internal groups, but they're different.

USENET is old, and was created before spam was invented, so the notion of 
hiding one's email addresses hadn't occurred to anyone.  Moreover, there 
isn't a single server, and this is an unmoderated group, meaning that 
there's no one sysadmin that you can appeal to.

The best thing to do if you like the group is to get a real newsreader, 
and an account that has newsgroup access (I use Giganews, but I've heard 
good things about Eternal September).  Among other nice features of a 
newsreader (like kill files for trolls) is the ability to use a fake 
email address.

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