How do i hide my email address on freecycle?

Question

How do i hide my email address on freecycle?

Answer 1

Although Yahoo! Groups safeguards your email address from mass harvesting, you should know that in most cases, your email address will become known to the group through normal interaction.

    * If you post a message to the group via email, your email address will appear in the message. (This is standard email protocol and there's no way of getting around it.)  You may want to sign up for a "free" email account to use only for Freecycle.

    * Whenever a page containing your email address is displayed to other members or made "public" to non-members, we mask your address to prevent mass harvesting. For example, if your email address is "[e-mail]," we display "joe@x..." However, in most cases, the owner and moderators of your group can see your email address (it won’t be masked for them as they often need to see member addresses to manage the group).

    * Some groups allow you to hide your email address entirely from the group (including from the group owner and moderators). If you choose this option, your email address won’t be disclosed to the group at all, but you must post messages to the group from the Groups web site. (You’ll still be able to receive group messages via email). Please note that not all groups offer you this option, as it is a per-group setting controllable by the creator of the group.

    * If you’re concerned about your email address being known to other members, we suggest you set up a special address for community services like Groups. You can easily do that by signing up for Yahoo! Mail http://mail.yahoo.com

Answer 2

you cant unless the group allows it- if they don't, consider using a different address

Answer 3

You can only hide your email address if the group owner/moderator allows it. You can see if your group allows this by going to the home page. On the left side of screen, scroll down to Info I Settings . Click on Settings. In the list that appears you will see a list of group settings which will include either "Members can hide email address" or "Members cannot hide email address".

If it is allowed, Sign into the group.

Near top of page, click on "Edit Membership".

Scroll down to "Email Address Display".

Select "Hide my email and IP address from group moderators".

Click "Save Changes".

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you choose this option, your email address won’t be disclosed to the group at all, but you must post messages to the group from the Groups web site. (You’ll still be able to receive group messages via email but will not be able to send messages to group via email).