Add-on Blind Carbon Copy option in conversations

[Goldoff]

Maybe it's already there, but in such case I haven't been able to find it: no one else than me finds necessary this option in order to send a private message ("conversation") to several users without them knowing who else is included in a group of addressees?

If there was already a conversation manager add-on containing this feature please let me know.

Thanks in advance

 

[Mr Lucky]

no one else than me finds necessary this option in order to send a private message

I agree it could be useful, but the main reason others don’t find it necessary is because it raises some huge privacy problems.

 

[Goldoff]

it raises some huge privacy problems

Well, there could be an excess of privacy, if I may say...

Seriously now, I really can't see what kind of privacy issue this could raise, especially when there are other add-ons allowing admins to directly access users' inboxes

 

[Max Taxable]

If there was already a conversation manager add-on containing this feature please let me know.

Check @Xon product line. If I'm not too much mistaken.

 

[beerForo]

You can do this from acp. Communication >> Message users. Lists are sent individually and the recipients are not exposed.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Seriously now, I really can't see what kind of privacy issue this could raise,

None as long as you let members know that what they think are private messages aren’t actually private and they might be copied to someone else without their knowledge.

The main issue is when you call them private messages but in reality they aren’t.

 

[Goldoff]

You can do this from acp. Communication >> Message users. Lists are sent individually and the recipients are not exposed.

Thank you for the tip. The problem there is that I need to create a specific group, as the system doesn't allow to send by name (nick) list

 

[Goldoff]

The main issue is when you call them private messages but in reality they aren’t.

If that was the problem I'll keep calling them "conversations". I was just using vB´s terminology

Can you help me now?

 

[beerForo]

Yes, it should allow username comma separation.

 

[beerForo]

None as long as you let members know that what they think are private messages aren’t actually private and they might be copied to someone else without their knowledge.

How do you email lists work? They need to tell you someone else got it? There's plenty of forum software that lets you carbon copy instead of creating a group conversation. And no recipients are exposed, hence BCC.

 

[Goldoff]

Yes, it should allow username comma separation.

No, neither semicolon.
I tried with and without space in between

 

[beerForo]

I know I said it should, as in, a suggestion.

 

[Mr Lucky]

How do you email lists work?

I don't know how email lists work, some kind of magic process I suppose. But how is that relevant to so-called private messages?

They need to tell you someone else got it?

Again, is that actually related to this topic, which is about the conversation system, not email lists. If I email people, I assume they get it but don't actually know for sure.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Can you help me now?

I would if I could, but I'm not an addon developer.

especially when there are other add-ons allowing admins to directly access users' inboxes

Not to mention they can access via the database.