mailing list creation confirmation email unhelpful
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Bug Description
Jame's email below sums up the issue(s) so well I have nothing to add.
It's possible this should be divided into separate issues, but as I'm
not sure where the divisions should be, I'll leave that to an expert:
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From: James Vasile
Subject: Launchpad feedback
To: Karl Fogel
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:52:06 -0500
We got a mailing list! The notice I got is below. A few ways it
could be better:
(1) Tell me this is for the Bkrpr *team* and not the project. That
clues me in that setting for it are on the team page. I clicked all
through the project's pages before realizing this.
(2) The email does not tell me the address I would use to post to this
list. Neither does the page referenced in the url. Again, I had to
go to the team page to find that out, but nobody pointed me there. I
had to stumble around until I found it.
-J
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: New Mailing List for Bkrpr
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:59:12 -0000
From: Bkrpr <email address hidden>
Reply-To: Bkrpr <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Hello James Vasile,
A new mailing list has been created for Bkrpr (bkrpr).
If you would like to subscribe to the list, please use the link below
to update your Mailing List Subscription preferences.
To subscribe:
https:/
Regards,
The Launchpad team
Also, as described in <https:/ /dev.launchpad. net/DeveloperDo cumentation/ UserInterfaceCh ecklist>, the message should not use the words "please" (because it wrongly gives the impression that we really need them to do it) or "below" (because rewriting without that word invariably makes the text shorter).
Referring to subscribing to a mailing list as "updating your Mailing List Subscription preferences" is needlessly pompous, too.