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I have a single E-mail account that I use for everything. I decided more than ~20 years ago that my E-mail is tied to my identity and not to any particular E-ma
by jwr 7y ago
I have a single E-mail account that I use for everything. I decided more than ~20 years ago that my E-mail is tied to my identity and not to any particular E-mail service or employer, and I started managing my E-mail myself.
Trello just notifided me that:
> At least one of the email addresses linked to your account belongs to an organization:
[...]
> This usually means it's a work email. If this organization begins using Atlassian products while this email address is linked, your account could become managed by that organization, which means you could potentially lose access. If you don't use Trello for work, just select a non-organizational email.
I use Trello myself, as well as in connection with several organizations. The idea that someone can "claim" and "manage" my account is outright ridiculous.
Even worse, in a show of incompetence, their "Confirm email" link doesn't work (times out because the server is seemingly down).
- PeterStuer 7y agoJust received the same email, and had the same experience as you. Servers are not responding. Now I'm no longer using Trello as I moved to tasksinabox.com 2 years ago, but I don't see why the information I have there should suddenly be transferred to a company, out of my control and without my permission, just because somewhere there is an email address with a company domain name attached. I understand the old "lure shadow IT users in with a 'free' service, then offer IT to take back control at a price" scheme, it's a bit of a dark pattern, but then the per-existing users should have the option to opt out of the retroactive appropriation. I do hope that once the 'confirmation' page comes up, there will be the option to remove the company email from the account, and assign a different address in its place.
- mattmanser 7y agoDid it actually come from @trello.com? As I got the same email from @trellis.coffee and assumed it was a phishing attempt.
- thedufer 7y agoI'm a former Trello employee - trellis.coffee is the domain the primary dev server is hosted at. It sounds like they failed to excise your email address from the dev database (at least, that's what we did when I worked there).
- znpy 7y agoDude you might have leaked private information. Not much really, but still... The dns record show the private addressing of the dev server: znpy@eomdb:~$ nslookup trellis.coffee Server: 127.0.0.53 Address: 127.0.0.53#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: trellis.coffee Address: 10.253.0.237 Name: trellis.coffee Address: 10.253.3.171 also: dig -t any trellis.coffee
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- mattmanser 7y agoIt's concerning that they're obviously copying production data to a dev database.
- PeterStuer 7y agoIt did indeed come from and links to the trellis.coffee domain.
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- pdonis 7y agoIf you only use a single email address and you manage it yourself, how does one of the email addresses on your account belong to an organization?
- dariusj18 7y agoIf they are a contractor and have access to other client's accounts via that login?