Duane,

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It’s a shame how cavalier folks are with other people’s data regarding this topic.

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I choose to use an identifiable email address that my group knows me by.

One of the reasons for this is that many of our members were concerned about signing up with Groups.IO in the first place.

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We selected Groups.IO as most of our members don’t want to sign up for a service, managing external users via Office365 groups is burdensome and Groups.IO has some features that are greatly beneficial to our sub-group moderators who before Groups.IO had no way to manage email lists.

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We have a defined curated list – you are either on it, or you are not.

If you are not on it you’re not added to the group at any level.

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What I didn’t choose, or know, that my email – used only for this Group in all of Groups.IO – would be programmatically shared without my knowledge or permission to people outside of my group. It’s not a matter of only lack of documentation but of what the Groups.IO designers consider to be an acceptable practice. It’s not.

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I was under the mistaken understanding, as this “feature” is documented nowhere, that my email – used in only a single specific group – would be shared by the system to other group moderators with no notification, logging or opt out capability. I stand corrected, or at least a better informed consumer.

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In this age of hacking, ransomware, ID theft, etc. many services are making it more difficult for external actors to gain access to and securing their users data.

If Groups.IO elects to go in another direction at least I’m aware of that now.

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No more comment is needed regarding this topic.

We’ll agree to disagree about what I find acceptable use of my email address.

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