# Email security/obscurity for moderators is inconsistent

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-security-obscurity-for-moderators-is-inconsistent/33837>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [September 28, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-security-obscurity-for-moderators-is-inconsistent/33837 "2015-09-28T14:29:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-security-obscurity-for-moderators-is-inconsistent/33837/14 "2015-09-29T13:52:48Z")

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> [@calmh](#):
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> Right, so with that on (it was off by default), moderators do get the same set of “show” buttons on the profile. But perhaps that setting should then affect the user list page as well (if we don’t want moderators to be able to see emails, the button shouldn’t be there either right?) and indeed the email log page…

Sounds logical. 👍

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