How do I email everyone, except one person, in Google groups?

September 20, 2010 10:31 AM

Is there a way to email everyone, except one person, in a Google group?

So I'm running the google group for our rugby team, and I'd like to send out an email soliciting donations to one of our teammate's charities without him knowing. Is there any easy way to email everyone except him? Failing that, is there an easy way to grab all the email addresses from the group so I can send a mass email outside of the group?

posted by electroboy to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

More of a social fix then a technical one, but you could ask people to reply to you (or a membership director) to update their contact information by a certain date, including email address.
posted by Pants! at 11:12 AM on September 20, 2010

Can you delete the person from the group, send the email, then add them back?
posted by lee at 11:30 AM on September 20, 2010

Best answer: You don't even have to delete. If you have manager access to the group just change their status to 'no email' and send the mail. After that you can revert him back to the original status.
posted by WizKid at 11:43 AM on September 20, 2010

WizKid: "You don't even have to delete. If you have manager access to the group just change their status to 'no email' and send the mail. After that you can revert him back to the original status"

I think this would work for the original email, but in the event anyone replied to the group email address and he had been added back on, he might get the replies.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 11:57 AM on September 20, 2010

Best answer: You don't even have to delete. If you have manager access to the group just change their status to 'no email' and send the mail. After that you can revert him back to the original status.

Now, this is something I'm not sure about, but worry might be the case: If a message is sent directly to the group email address ([e-mail]), will it also be archived in the group's Discussions section on the Web? Even if the person doesn't get the email notice of the discussion initially, could they potentially see it if they subsequently happen to visit the Google Group on the Web?

If that's the case, this and this might be useful.
posted by limeonaire at 12:02 PM on September 20, 2010

Also what JohnnyGunn said.
posted by limeonaire at 12:02 PM on September 20, 2010

Response by poster: Thanks all, I think I'm going to go the "no email" route. We're going to give him the collected donation on Thursday, and I doubt he'll look at the group page before then.
posted by electroboy at 1:23 PM on September 20, 2010