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Email addresses, wives using their husbands’.

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Cabbie21 Thu 06-Mar-25 07:44:30

AIBU to be a bit frustrated with ladies who use their husband’s email instead of having their own?
I have just set up an e-mail group list for a u3a group I am facilitating, but it is really confusing when the husband’s name comes up when it is his wife who is replying to me. She is the member of the group, not him.
Why do some women not have their own identity?

Madmeg Fri 07-Mar-25 20:51:34

I'm involved with several local charitable/political groups and find that several committee members/group leaders either do not understand the importance of the GDPR rules or do not know how to avoid falling foul of them. For instance, if you are sending group emails (say to 20 members of a u3a interest group) you must use a method that does not identify the email address of other members (usually dealt with using the "blind copy" function). This also clearly applies if the membership secretary emails members who have failed to renew their subs. Similarly with the political organisation - some might have good reason for others not to know their political affinity.

Doodledog Sat 08-Mar-25 06:16:22

Nothing😀.

I wasn’t suggesting they could, or should do anything about it. My points were that it is not always the case that people who are doing something are doing it happily, and that we can’t assume that what are, to us, benign communications will necessarily be so to others.