Add privacy warning to faq about forwarding email from your username@dreamwidth.org address

[noracharles]

Title:
Add privacy warning to faq about forwarding email from your username@dreamwidth.org address

Area:
privacy

Summary:
In the faq (http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=196&q=forwarding&lang=) it is implied that forwarding email is a privacy concern, but it's not explained why. I would like a sentence added explaining that doing so may reveal that address to other users.

Description:
This is one of those things where a moment's thought will tell you the answer, but I didn't think, and other users may also be ignorant about the risk:

Don't forward your username@dreamwidth.org mail to an email address you do not wish connected to your pseud, because if it bounces, the person who emailed you will get an auto-reply containing the private email address.

I learned the real life name of a fandom friend this way.

Poll #3745 Add privacy warning to faq about forwarding email from your username@dreamwidth.org address

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47

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Should be implemented as-is.
47 (100.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
0 (0.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[matgb]

I'd have had to guess at it as well, wouldn't have ever occured to me given my username is my real name, pretty much, but...

[briarwood]

Agreed. It's one of those things that should be obvious, but we don't think about until it happens.