From: jtbell@presby.edu 
  
 In article <1119772466.245775.17360@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, 
   wrote: 
 > 
 >When I signed up with Google Groups, I got the definite impression that 
 >my Google nickname would be displayed with my message, but not my 
 >actual email address. 
  
 The old version of the Google Groups interface (which was replaced by the 
 current one just a few months ago) did display the e-mail address in the 
 "From:" header, just as a normal newsgroup provider does.  I suspect 
 (althogh I don't know for sure, of course) that Google started hiding 
 addresses in the current version because this version now includes 
 user-created Google groups that don't propagate to other news servers (you 
 can access them only via Google's Web interface).  Most Web-based forums 
 hide users' e-mail addresses, so Google probably figured that they'd 
 better do likewise, and since both kinds of groups use the same interface, 
 this would apply also to Usenet groups. 
  
 Of course, it's otherwise pointless for Google to disguise addresses in 
 Usenet groups, because normal newsreading software shows the addresses 
 anyway.  So they probably do it only for consistency with their local 
 groups. 
  
 I think you make a very valid point, and you ought to tell Google about 
 it.  Let's see... this page looks like it might be suitable: 
  
 http://groups-beta.google.com/support/bin/request.py 
  
 Good luck! 
  
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 Jon Bell                         Presbyterian College 
 Dept. of Physics and Computer Science        Clinton, South Carolina USA 
  
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