Comments on: Protection of Privacy with Email Address

By: Tara Burner

Tara Burner — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:11:34 +0000

I so agree with you. I personally cannot stand when people cc their entire addy book so everyone has everyone’s email addy to spam. Not to mention when someone will “reply all” and then send some lame response to everyone who got the first email.

I send consultants notice if they don’t meet quota…can you imagine if I didn’t use BCC, then everyone would know who wasn’t making it and well…that’s just not professional.

Anytime someone sends the same email to multiple recipients, they should do it via BCC…that’s just common sense.

By: Leigh Anne Wilkes

Leigh Anne Wilkes — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:02:56 +0000

My biggest email pet peeve is when you send an email to someone and you cc someone else on it and the person doesn’t hit Reply to All when they answer and only hit Reply so you are the only one that sees the reply. The cc’d person doesn’t see it.

By: laurieayers

laurieayers — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:58:01 +0000

It’s not so much that email addresses aren’t freely available but it’s the privacy of the person that is the real issue. It’s about being in everyone’s business. What if someone sent out a bulk email that said “Since you failed the driving test, come in on Wed…” I wouldn’t want the rest of the recipients on that email knowing that I was included in the failed driving test. It’s none of their business.

Further, if a team email is sent to a group of consultants who are pending termination due to inactivity, everyone’s name and email does not need to be visible for all to see. “Oh did you see that Cindy is getting ready to get canned? She didn’t even sell $150 in 3 months so she’ll be terminated” – Again, no one’s business.

Sure telephone numbers, addresses and emails can be easily obtained but that doesn’t mean that the person isn’t entitled to privacy and freedom from everyone else knowing what information is being passed along.

By: Cindy Bidar

Cindy Bidar — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:33:55 +0000

You make an interesting point, but I don’t think you’ll find many others who will agree with you. Email addresses have a more public feel to them than does a phone number, for example, and people treat them that way. And why not? If I get an unsolicited email from someone (I’m not talking about spam here, just regular email) it costs me nothing to read it. I can respond or not, in a time frame that’s convenient to me. They don’t interrupt my dinner, wake up the kids, or make me miss the last five minutes of American Idol. Really, I couldn’t care less who has my email address.

As far as spam goes, I use Gmail, so it’s rarely an issue, and their spam filters are getting better all the time. At the worst it takes me two seconds every day to scan the subject lines in the spam folder and hit the delete key. I find spam to be such a non-issue that I’m no longer reluctant to post my email address in public places. I’ve even posted it in an open thread on Twitter when asking a question of someone.

I just don’t see email address privacy as a big deal any more, but I’m interested to see if others feel the same way you do.