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(Message started by: russ on Feb 10^th, 2012, 5:00pm)

Title: "it's your move" email: don't spoof users
Post by russ on Feb 10^th, 2012, 5:00pm

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

Title: Re: "it's your move" email: don't spoof
Post by Fritzlein on Feb 10^th, 2012, 5:03pm

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.

Title: Re: "it's your move" email: don't spoof
Post by MerlokDD on Feb 15^th, 2012, 2:05pm

on 02/10/12 at 17:00:34, russ wrote:

...
Why don't the emails simply say truthfully that they're from arimaa.com?
...

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.

Title: Re: "it's your move" email: don't spoof
Post by russ on Feb 15^th, 2012, 3:22pm

Quote:

Another improvement would be to have just one email after the last login and not one per oponent.

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)...

Title: Re: "it's your move" email: don't spoof
Post by browni3141 on Mar 6^th, 2012, 12:06am

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.

Title: Re: "it's your move" email: don't spoof
Post by Hippo on Mar 6^th, 2012, 1:41pm

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. :)