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russ
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"it's your move" email: don't spoof users
« on: Feb 10th, 2012, 5:00pm » |
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The emails I get that "it's your move" pretend to be from the email address of my opponent instead of from arimaa.com.
1. It's unnecessary and inappropriate from a privacy point of view to reveal other user's email addresses.
2. It often causes warnings in my email system that the message may not be sent by who it claims to be sent by and could be a phishing attempt.
3. It might be a cause of some emails being misdiagnosed as spam.
Why don't the emails simply say truthfully that they're from arimaa.com?
Thanks,
russ
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Fritzlein
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Re: "it's your move" email: don't spoof
« Reply #1 on: Feb 10th, 2012, 5:03pm » |
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I agree. I don't care who gets my e-mail address, but giving it out should be my decision, not a consequence of playing a postal game.
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MerlokDD
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Re: "it's your move" email: don't spoof
« Reply #2 on: Feb 15th, 2012, 2:05pm » |
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on Feb 10th, 2012, 5:00pm, russ wrote:
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Why don't the emails simply say truthfully that they're from arimaa.com?
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I favor that too,
I'm always puzzled with emails from unknown opponents..
Another improvement would be to have just one email
after the last login and not one per oponent.
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russ
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Re: "it's your move" email: don't spoof
« Reply #3 on: Feb 15th, 2012, 3:22pm » |
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Quote:| Another improvement would be to have just one email after the last login and not one per oponent. |
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I actually like getting an email for each game, with a clickable link taking me straight to that game. (Probably because I find the website navigation non-intuitive... so the emails let me totally bypass the website navigation.)
I just wish they'd have correct From: field data (arimaa.com instead of the opponent's email address)...
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browni3141
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Re: "it's your move" email: don't spoof
« Reply #4 on: Mar 6th, 2012, 12:06am » |
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I agree completely with the OP. I don't really like the idea that anyone can get my email address just by getting paired with me. I prefer to keep my email as private as possible to avoid spam.
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Hippo
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Re: "it's your move" email: don't spoof
« Reply #5 on: Mar 6th, 2012, 1:41pm » |
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I am used to expect what is in spam folder is from arimaa.com and I find it here much easier than among a lot of e-mail stuff. 
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