To be angry over this email?

[jinglymum]

I have just received an email from my son's school, with every single child's name at the school and every parents email address.

I don't want other parents having my email address, aibu to be annoyed over this?

They are breaching confidentiality. YANBU.

Ping something back quickly - this is probably a mistake and they may be able to rectify it by recalling the email.

No, they should have made clear what they were going to use it for when they obtained it from you, so given you the option to decline. It's just consideration and good manners (but also falls under the data protection act).

Yup, they should be on blind copy YANBU complain straight away so it's never repeated, one of my biggest bugbears

Did they just CC when they meant to BCC? Probably quite embarassed!

I've emailed the school back to let them know about this. As usual they haven't got back to me.

Why have they done that??!! They are definately breaching confidentiality!! That must be some list!!

Not sure what's happened really. Looks like the names and attached parents emails have been pasted onto the email and sent.

Oh!

That's definitely a data protection issue. The school should have a policy on it.

I bet that's a CC instead of a BCC sort of error. ( I've done that myself before!). Do get in touch with the school but probably most people will delete the e-mail and there'll be no harm done.

What Busy said

It wouldn't bother me in the slightest...it's just an email addy after all.

However, they shouldn't let errors like that happen.

Just spoke to a friend everyone has received the email.

The school wouldn't give out first names for a party invite last month, at least we all have the whole school roster now!

How on earth do you recall an email? My God, that would have been useful in the past

Anyone? I really want to know.

Hi tallwivglasses, unfortunately you can't. Once it's gone, it's gone. Some corporate email systems support recalling a message but you can't do it for internet mail.

Over here in Virginia they hand out school directories to every parent with names, phone numbers, emails and address of every child. Even down to parents names. Bugs the hell out of me.

You can recall an email if you use Outlook.

Open the message from Sent Items, click on Actions from the Message tab, then Recall This Message.

Don't know how/if it works in other email software though.

Thanks

On our system at work you can recall a message, but the recipient has to read the 'recall' message first for it to work (which, naturally, is sent after the email). So, when we get an email followed by a recall message, everyone opens the email first to find out why it had to be recalled!

Our PTA has this on a spreadsheet and it's available to anyone who wants a copy. You can refuse to hand over your details, of course, but why would you, really? I wouldn't have seen it as a confidentiality issue, it's mainly used for party invites and such like.

Because the more people who have your details the more spam you get, the more open to identity-theft you are and viruses and, and gremlins and, just, you know, people you wouldn't normally give your details to.

Back in the day we had a shared phone-line with next door and you could be ex-directory in the phonebook. Nobody had your details - you gave them out. Even at the bank or in a shop they went in a file on a bit of paper. That was it!

I'll stop now 'cos I'm feeling like an old gimmer

YANBU,
Class emails with permission perhaps, but not the whole school.
DD1s left and DD2s in Y6 so I'm past the stage when I might have vaguely known most people.

Can't conceive why some random year R mum would want to know my email.

Come to think off it, there were parents in DD1s class I certainly would have preferred not to.

Also some people's computer address books seem to be compromised. DD2 gets very strange messages that clearly aren't sent by the friends they appear to come from.

I get emails from my current company saying they are 'recalling' a previous email.

It means nothing, other than 'Could you please pretend you didn't see the previous one?'

TechMNHQ hi!