Thanks Zack - The way I've tried to do group mails so far (now abandoned, at least temporarily) is to address the mail to myself (thus my email address is in the To line), then a comma, and then the email group's name. When I use the BCC method, I also put my own address in the To line, then BCC all of the individual email addresses, not a group or a group name. I will try sending a group or multiple BCC email with *both* my address and my wife's address in the To line, since my wife is my assistant for this particular class.
Of course you could be correct that none of the students is reading his/her emails - but as I said, these are all grown-up people, many of them academics or researchers themselves, and for this class there are eight of them. Eight grown up lazy miscreants seems like a lot - but it wouldn't be the first time. <G> Bill On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Zack (Doc) <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill, > > I work in a professional environment, and take adult online classes, and I > assure you that it's extremely likely they are not checking their e-mail... > however, it's more likely a problem you could be creating. Using a GMail > group is no different from adding the students' addresses directly, but you > bring up a point of when it's working... > > It's been discussed here several times before. If you don't have ANY > address on the To line, MANY systems will classify the e-mail as spam, and > never even deliver it to the mailboxes of their users. Nearly as many will > have a problem with the sender's name as the only TO name. This is because > that is exactly the tactic many spammers used for a while. You should use > some unique, preferably valid, address on the To line, and use the contact > group to fill in the BCC line. This is exactly what I use, and I KNOW > people are getting mine (they wind up on facebook within hours of my > sending). > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:45 AM, billhansen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I've noticed that when I create a Group of recipients in Gmail, the >> recipients never get the emails. This happened a few different times over >> the past year or so - so of course I've stopped using Groups to send emails >> from Gmail. Recently I needed to send a group email to students of a class >> I'm teaching, so I reverted to my older practice of sending the email to >> myself, and Bcc'ing the students. Out of 8 emails which went out, >> apparently none of the students got the email. (I know this, because I just >> checked with each of them by phone.) >> >> Are the students just not checking their email? These are grown-ups, >> professional people, so I doubt that. Could the emails all have gone into >> Trash? Maybe - but my wife got her copy, and I got my copy, in our regular >> InBoxes, hers in AOL mail and mine in Gmail. >> >> Any suggestions on how I might do better on this group email thing? Seems >> like a severe limitation to Gmail, when most other email clients make group >> emails quite easy. >> >> BIll Hansen >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
