| There's been a few cases where people have complained that they have received spam from either outsiders or Ecademy members, direct to their email address. Let me clarify what currently happens. The email address that Ecademy holds is optionally displayed on your profile. - The default is that the email address is not shown. If you want to show your email address you have to enable it. Now if people then send you email, why are you complaining!?! - The profile page is visible to non-members (the word at large) but even if you have enabled display of your email address, it's not shown. - Ecademy never gives out the email addresses and I don't believe the database has been accessed directly. - We are considering tightening this further so that even if you mark your email address as displayed it's only shown to power networkers. I'm not sure this is either necessary or desirable. - And finally, beware the effects of the current crop of email viruses and worms. These take random from and to addresses from people's address book and construct an email subject and body from text it finds that often look quite real. So you can get email from someone that looks as though it came from Ecademy or via Ecademy, when in fact it came from an infected 3rd party that knows both you and Ecademy. One related area. When someone leaves a message the recipient (optionally) gets a notification. When the target is a power networker they get the full text of the message and the reply-to is set to the email address of the author. This is a convenience for power networkers but it's also a leak of email address information from Ecademy. I like it the way it is, but if enough people dislike it, I'll go back to a reply-to address of webmaster@ecademy.com. It's just that I was receiving way too many replies that were obviously meant for the original author and I don't have the time to redirect these. [from: JB Ecademy] |
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