PRIVACY ISSUE?? Chesshere.com -- Have you been contacted

--- For technical and other reasons, I decided to begin communicating with some lichess members via email. I choose a dormant email address I had created...

___ When I logged on I found an invitation from a 'friend' to join and play on chesshere.com. I had no clue as to who this person is... Has this happened to any of you??
___ I should add that this occurred 11/23/14 -- before any mods or 'mod helpers' had misread/ mincontrued my intentions....

You logged on to your dormant email and found an invitation to play on chesshere.com/?

Maybe it's from another friend who knew your email? I doubt it has anything to do with this site.

And I have no idea what the point means.

*No idea what the last point means.

____ @Chess_Agent.... THANKS for your response. Although I have theory and experience in the computer realm, I have to go to more sophisticated friends for current knowledge. I went here first because it was a 'chess' site solicitation.

I had created the address ? 7 months back for a purpose like this site and never used it... So I'm guessing the only way someone found it was to cross-reference my 'name' with other addresses I created. (primitive, 1st step security).... Or someone who is evesdropping on lichess users if that is possible -- so asking fellow lichessers was a logical step...

Evidently you are blessedly above some of the drama that has occurred... I thought my last 'point' was clear: THIS INQUIRY IS TOTALLY DIVORCED AND SEPERATE from anyone who is involved in administering this site -- I don't expect them to investigate or reply because it is beyond their scope. I simply wondered if any of the users in our community had had a similar experience....

Still nobody??

Could I at least get a techie or a BS artist to throw a theory at me???

I had a look at their website and it looks they have a presence on Facebook. Do you have a Facebook account and is the email you used to register with Facebook the same one you received an invitation to join chesshere?

So do I have this correct?

1. You communicated with other Lichess users using an email address that you've never used anywhere else.
2. You got a friend request at chesshere.com sent to that email address.

You conclude that someone at chesshere.com may be painstakingly combing through Lichess usernames and guessing our email addresses, perhaps by cross-referencing those usernames with other hits (on Google?), in an attempt to send a few more marketing emails to promote their website. Or worse, someone has hacked the Lichess servers and obtained our emails. Yet only you see to be affected, and coincidentally you shared your email address with other users while the vast majority of the rest of us likely use the built in messaging feature to communicate. I submit the alternative explanation that you gave your email address out to someone on Lichess and they sent you a friend request on chesshere.com where they use a different username that you don't recognize.

____THANK YOU for a response!

___Excellent logic based upon something I may have communicated badly.... I began to use the 'dormant' address this month and the invitation came to me 11/24/14 (see entry one). So your alternate explanation falls short...
____ Regarding your observation that most of us use the notes (& ?/forum posting) feature to communicate, I too used that feature.
Totally unrelated to the chess.com 'incident' -- censorship/ lost communication ability of some of my friends on site made me use the email alternative... (the full story is irrelevant).
___ 3rdly, you bring up the excellent point that it is silly to imagine that someone would design a program to target me. If they were targeting lichess users, then -- despite the limited views/ visibility of this thread -- I think I would have recieved some confirmation from other users... THAT was the sole purpose of this thread: to eliminate/ confirm that lichess people were being targeted...

___Therefore, I simply recieved a random solicitation.... As far as I am concerned, this thread could be closed out....

Isaiah! Have you got a facebook profile? DON'T post it here :D