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Anonymous
September 26, 2009
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Delete Email Address

  • September 26, 2009
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Why can't U delete your own email in thread? New people don't realize that if they respond upon receiving an email

notification from the forum, that if they respond directly from their email itself, their email will appear in the forum

thread. When realizing that they should have responded to the link to the forum thread it is too late. I see no way then

to rectify this mistake. I am of the opinion that the person should be able to delete their own email address from their

own response they have made on the thread. After all, it is their email address that is at risk; I'm not asking to delete anyone else's.  Thank you for any response

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    Anonymous
    September 27, 2009

    Question answered and email being removed by Forum Host MK

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    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    September 26, 2009

    eidnolb wrote on 9/26/2009 8:17 AM:

    Why can't U delete your own email in thread?

    Changing a message after it has been posted, for whatever reason, is not

    unlimited. There is a time limit to changes and when other people have

    acted on your message (in most cases that means replied to it) you are

    blocked from changing the message as well. This is to prevent the

    discontinuity that may occur from somebody changing a message that has

    already been replied to. (It is not perfect, because the email

    notifications are not updated, but it is better then unlimited changing.)

    Presuming this is about posting messages through email, the best way to

    make sure your email address isn't displayed to all is not to send it in

    the first place.

    Most email clients can be configured to help you prevent the inclusion

    of unintended content. You could specifically for the forums create a

    profile and make sure that profile doesn't have a signature or quoting

    options. Or more generically, if you write your email messages in the

    way recommended by the Netiquette (i.e. first quote what you are

    responding to, then add your own content below that, see RFC 1855) it is

    almost impossible to post unintended content because you will always

    read what your email client includes first. And posting in plain text

    instead of HTML helps too, since plain text is much more WYSIWYG.

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    Anonymous
    September 26, 2009

    Thank you for responding to my question. That does explain the whys. In my case this was the first time I authored a

    subject on Adobe.  Since editing or deleting one's email cannot be done perhaps an advisory could be included in the email notification that the user receives when someone has responded to their post. At the bottom of the email notification it says:"To post a reply to the thread message, either reply to this email or visit the message page:....."

    Since new posters are probably not familiar with a forum's policy on deleting/editing, PRIOR, to responding by email,

    maybe something to the effect could be added to the "To post a reply, etc. as: "Be aware that if you reply by email, your

    name and email address will be posted on the forum thread"

    That would be very helpful for new people that are unfamiliar with posting on a public forum. Just a suggestion and in my case and I think others, had I known this beforehand, I would not have replied by email.

    Thanks for the suggestions in the last paragraph.

    Kath-H
    Kath-H
    Inspiring
    September 26, 2009

    Your email address is not necessarily published - check whether you have a signature automatically added to your emails.

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