Author Topic: cannot hide email address from public?  (Read 2609 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline MasynSpencerElliotte

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 249
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 16048
  • Location: Canada
cannot hide email address from public?
« on: December 16, 2010, 03:23:15 am »
Okay, I have tried off and on to click the button to hide my email from public, and it has never worked, tonight I even totally changed my email to a junk one I have and back and it still would not let me change that setting...what am I doing wrong??

TIA  :)
Heidi




Offline gogomama

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 17
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 1313
  • Location:
Re: cannot hide email address from public?
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2010, 04:45:42 am »
Yours is hidden as far as I can tell. I was worried about the same thing before but you can always see your own email even if other's can't.

Offline Canwi

  • Retired GM and Mod still paying it forward
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 253
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 11368
  • Me, in a picture
  • Location: Halfway 'round the world from where I am at heart
Re: cannot hide email address from public?
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2010, 05:42:43 am »
*points up*
What she said! :D
 
8) I BFd a combined total of 4y, 1m & 1d

Offline MasynSpencerElliotte

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 249
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 16048
  • Location: Canada
Re: cannot hide email address from public?
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2010, 14:49:06 pm »
Thanks!   But onto my next question...why can I see it when I look at my posts?
Heidi




Offline Mashi

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 408
  • Posts: 16805
  • Location:
Re: cannot hide email address from public?
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2010, 15:11:53 pm »
It's hidden Heidi, don't worry -- I cant see it!! But, I do know what you mean....mine is also hidden, but it is visible to me.  Hiding it just means hiding it from everyone else....you can still see it on your own posts, under your avatar. But when I look, I see your "view profile" icon and your "send PM" icon.  No email. :)

Offline MasynSpencerElliotte

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 249
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 16048
  • Location: Canada
Re: cannot hide email address from public?
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2010, 15:17:08 pm »
Thanks Mashi...though why I need to see it escapes me, not likely to email myself! Oh well, good to know anyways!
Heidi




Offline Gareth - Harvey & Theo's Dad

  • Mac Daddy
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 218
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 2821
  • Location: South Wales, UK
Re: cannot hide email address from public?
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2010, 19:55:31 pm »
.though why I need to see it escapes me, not likely to email myself!

Nor do you need to keep it a secret from yourself :)  I suspect that was the reasoning when the developers wrote the software, I haven't looked at the relevant code but, it's quite likely that to hide your email address from yourself would need an extra amount of coding that would be, essentially, unnecessary.
Gareth

Harvey - 18 Nov 2003

Theo - 24 Dec 2005

Offline MasynSpencerElliotte

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 249
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 16048
  • Location: Canada
Re: cannot hide email address from public?
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2010, 20:36:54 pm »
Too true Gareth! Thanks for the help guys  :-*  makes me feel better that it really never was there in the first place!
Heidi