>Email ‘To:’ field randomizer https://medium.com/products-i-wish-existed/5dc3f5cd08ab
For example, it hurts me inside that I cannot tell this guy to use "bcc:"
but aside from that, I think that he really wants is not just a randomizer, but something that explicitly flags that fact that the 'to' field reflects a random ordering. Otherwise, how are the recipients to know it's a random ordering?
(that's a bit of a simplification, though. It might not be necessary if such randomizers were well-known and/or it became obvious from multiple of someone's group emails that their recipient ordering was random-looking).
Perhaps rather than randomizing, they could be alphabetized? Or... if someone actually writes back in shock that yellowrubberchicken@yahoo.com slept with hownowbrowncow@hotmail.com, just reply back that you have no idea what they're talking about?
Or, yeah, perhaps bcc in some cases if this is that much of a concern in your life?
import random, string
email_list = "a@b.com, c@d.com".split(', ')
random.shuffle(email_list)
print string.join(email_list, ', ')Granted, in rare cases, it is desirable to disclose all recipients' email addresses to each other, but I'd personally prefer it if that were the exception, rather than common practice.
It might be rare for some people's use of email, but it's hardly rare. It's essential if it's group email and others in that group need to be able to chime-in to the rest of the group.