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Hello all :-)
great experience here on lichess and I thank everybody who is involved in development, administration and contributing in anyway to this chess paradise.

Unfortunatelly I had some SPAM to advertise for something called discord.gg.
It was mentioned to be something like Skype.
Funny enough someone advertises for anything comparing Skype (~spyware) with the subject of advertisement ... but he did ^^

That's not all: the content of the SPAM message is strongly related to a non public study I started short time before.

3 Questions:
1) How can i mention SPAM to the administration team?
2) What does the administration team do to avoid SPAM?
3) Which members can search/read/analyze/export private Studies, private messages and user logs?
thanks to you IM lovlas.
i did not now that yet.

furthermore i had a nice chat with some one of the administration/development team, who knows more about lichess and the sender of the SPAM.

Finally it does not seem to be professional advertisement. And the link given is maybe not a partner-program-link even it looks like.
It might be more like a fusion of deep impoliteness and over-motivated attempt to distract someone from lichess.
A senseless attempt ^^

Furthermore it seems obvious now it was no massmailing (even it looked like) and it was not based on a data leek. The mail was based on more obvious information available in the tournaments and my profile, as well.

As far as it depends on me, the question can be seen as closed.
Hi @aloisp
I write this message trying to clarify the situation.
I know the person who sent you the message and it was actually me who encouraged them to do so. The 'advertisement' is not actually referring to a program but to a chat community that has the aim to discuss and popularize chess variants.
As I have seen you playing lots of variants and also in the variants shield tournament we decided that this might be of your interest.
I want to apologize that it made the impression of being a spam mail.
Also I want to apologize to steal your time doing this.
If however you want to be part of the advertised community you can find the invite link on my lichess profile.
If you have any questions about the topic let me know.

Regards, andreijl
(also known as ObiWanBenoni on discord)

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