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How to find (not disclosed) emails?


 

I have been lurking, but now have a question. Trying to move a Yahoo group (Dneprheads) and when I did the big download as an owner for the basic 1,000 list (doing the screen dump) a lot came through as "(not disclosed)". I did get all the archived messages, images, and data.

Is there a way to get the real email addresses? Should I RTFM again?

Thanks!

John :-#)#


 

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:13 PM, John Robertson wrote:
I have been lurking, but now have a question. Trying to move a Yahoo group (Dneprheads) and when I did the big download as an owner for the basic 1,000 list (doing the screen dump) a lot came through as "(not disclosed)". I did get all the archived messages, images, and data.
You have to be a Moderator of the group to get the email addresses.

Bruce


 

John,

As owner or moderator over at YG, when you see the member listing, yes there are a random mix of the not-disclosed people with no email.? Thank Yahoo for the Geocities merge on that one.

How to get another 1,000 members?? Simple, click on the first or last name column.? It will the sort to that click.? Now do another download of the membership. :) :) :)

Now you can take all of these lists and do a sort for duplicates in EXCEL.? When done, you could have a good listing to do INVITES here from GroupsIO.
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So, pick the columns you can sort by before downloading in YG.

BMaverick


 

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That is too easy! We have about 1200 members so should have no trouble following your instruction.

As for the (not disclosed) I take it there is no way to recover them? The system obviously HAS the email as they are mixed in with the expressed emails in a logical progression. So one would think there would be a way to get the email out as the owner/moderator of the list!

In any case, thanks, that will save me a bunch of cut&paste!

John :-#)#

On Jan 10, 2020, at 9:20 PM, BMaverick <bmaverick@...> wrote:

?John,

As owner or moderator over at YG, when you see the member listing, yes there are a random mix of the not-disclosed people with no email.? Thank Yahoo for the Geocities merge on that one.

How to get another 1,000 members?? Simple, click on the first or last name column.? It will the sort to that click.? Now do another download of the membership. :) :) :)

Now you can take all of these lists and do a sort for duplicates in EXCEL.? When done, you could have a good listing to do INVITES here from GroupsIO.
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So, pick the columns you can sort by before downloading in YG.

BMaverick


 

John,

... a lot came through as "(not disclosed)".
Is there a way to get the real email addresses?
No there is not.

That indicates that those specific members chose the Hide your email and IP address feature. Their email addresses are never revealed, even to the Y!Group owners.

I've always been under the impression that that was a very uncommon feature for a group to enable. The Yahoo Group GMF is about the only group I've ever known to have that feature enabled.

Even tools like PG Offline and the Chrome application on YahooGroupedia cannot access the (not disclosed) addresses.

Shal


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On 11/01/2020 03:45, Bruce Bowman wrote:

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:13 PM, John Robertson wrote:

I have been lurking, but now have a question. Trying to move a
Yahoo group (Dneprheads) and when I did the big download as an
owner for the basic 1,000 list (doing the screen dump) a lot came
through as "(not disclosed)". I did get all the archived messages,
images, and data.
You have to be a Moderator of the group to get the email addresses.
Even as a moderator (even as a group owner) of the Yahoogroup, there can
be "(not disclosed)" members. I've seen it several times in member
lists that I download using the screen dump method, as a moderator.

Samuel


 

John,

Out of our 2783 members, I was able to pluck out about 1,600 from the membership list by sorting the column methods and exporting each one.?

As for the non-disclosed, I was able to snag just a few.? How is this possible?? Well, the member chose to use their EMAIL as their user ID.? That was one way to hunt thru the non-disclosed listings.? The other way was a little more inventive.? When a SPECIAL notice on YG is sent out, those with non-disclosed emails can reply to the mod or owner.? When they do, your home email GETS their EMAIL ADDRESS when they reply to the the message.? Otherwise, it's not been noticed beyond these two methods.? On Geocities, we had the ability to keep emails totally anonymous and when moved to Yahoo, Yahoo kept that feature for us folks.

Glad you can be creative to snag all the members with the methods.?? Making the listing in EXCEL is easy with 'sort for duplicates' and 'filter' out the non-disclosed.? Before doing the sort and filter, make a backup of the file.?? Once done, the GroupsIO INVITE feature will work really nicely with the listing.? The cut-n-paste does take a moment for the paste buffer to load into the GroupsIO field.? It's not spontaneously instant.? Basically, that paste is coming from your computer, over the internet and filling in the INVITE field.?

With that many loaded INVITES, you will get a noticed that a GroupsIO system level moderator has to review and approve your INVITE request.? It didn't take long for that to happen.? 1/2 day.? But I wasn't in no instant hurray.? Glad it works. :) :) :)
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BMaverick
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