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Old Dec 31, 2013 | 10:23 pm
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Originally Posted by oliver2002
Another point to note is that your email ID goes to the moderators email account if you report a post. If I look at my gmail 'contacts' I see dozens of people I have no clue who they are. Investigation revealed that they reported posts and the gmail assumed that they are sending me email. So if there ever is a breach of my gmail and the contact list is used to spam, these FTers will receive spam.
This is a great reason why those notifications should NEVER go to a user's email, but to their PM box instead.

IBobi - Sending the notification via PM is the standard implementation that I've seen on most internet forums. For security/privacy reasons (as well as many others), can IB please investigate what it would take to change the notification system?
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