Re: Removing members from text messaging group

VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
 

VanguardLH wrote:
 

looks to be editing your "group" under Google Groups, not of editing a
"group" in the SMS app.  The term group gets way overused, so I got
misled to the wrong directions.

 
Conversation would indeed be a better term for it, still it lets you add
participants, I guess if you removed a participant, there's no guarantee
the remaining participants (from your perspective) would notice, so
they would likely continue to include the person you'd cut out ...

 
Would recipients of an SMS message to sent to multiple recipients even
see who were the other recipients of that message?  That would seem to
violate the privacy of recipients who probably never granted the sender
to include them in a conversation.  I would expect a group message to be
similar to using BCC in an outbound e-mail, but maybe the CC equivalent
gets used instead.

  Well, for example for a real IM (Instant Messaging) platform like
WhatsApp the members of a group can see the number of members and who
they are. The creator/admin of the group can add and delete members and
members can choose to exit the group. So at any time, a member can see
the current number of members and who they are. I do not know if members
get notified if a member is deleted or exits or a member is added. I
assume they get notified, but I don't know.

  Bottom line: For real IM platforms, the OP's (Tim Slattery) problem
(of not being able to delete a member) does not exist.