Warn users that mailing list archives are public unless the team is actually private

[William Grant]

It is clear that some team administrators don't realise that mailing list archives are visible by everybody (not just members) even if the team is restricted. They're only private if the team is private.

This results in wonderful teams that exist for monitoring private bugs, but then conveniently archive all of that private bugmail publicly. I won't disclose such teams here, but ask if you want to fix it...

One should be warned about the lack of privacy before creating a mailing list.

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Setting to high as we might be disclosing private information. Barry can you take a look at this?

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Okay, so clearly people don't read the help wiki, because it says there that all archives are public. Given that, Martin, do you have an opinion on how we should raise the awareness of the archives being public? Perhaps a big red blinking warning on Configure mailing list?

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

This is not easily solved since messaging happens outside of launchpad. The only idea that comes to mind is to revised the labels to the archive to state "public" or "private". This would only address the corner case where the user looks at the label on the website, or in the footer or a message *before* sending a message.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r12093 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/12093>.