# Sender names in Gmail threads **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [January 4, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sender-names-in-gmail-threads/105704 "2019-01-04T19:46:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sender-names-in-gmail-threads/105704/5 "2019-01-07T03:21:20Z")
Probably fine, just worried about possible side effects. I support trying it out, but at the same time it feels a bit strange to me as we are “personalizing” the email address so the odds of someone seeing it and assuming that `meta+sam@discoursemail.com` is somehow an email they can use to reply to Sam.. is much higher now versus `meta@discoursemail.com` Thinking about this a bit more I feel this is kind of a nasty hack and has the possibility to do more harm than good. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sender-names-in-gmail-threads/105704)._