Clarify Launchpad 'contact this team' functionality
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hello,
I'm a member of several teams on Launchpad. Yesterday, I received an email from somebody asking for some generic questions about Ubuntu. I replied to this person, but I'm very annoyed to have emails from people I don't know, and with no indication of how they got my email address.
This is the email that I received:
From: <email address hidden>
Sender: <email address hidden>
Reply to: <email address hidden>
Title: First time user I still have a dual
Hello, ...
--
This message was sent by Launchpad via the Contact user/team
link on your profile page. For more information see
https:/
There were no indications that I received this email because I'm a member of 'Ubuntu UK'. I discovered that because another member of this group told me so (I wonder how he knew about me and my answer...)
Second, Ubuntu UK is a team of almost 500 people, so in effect you are allowing anybody to spam 500 people very easily.
Finally, this user could have been redirected to a more appropriate means of communication for his question, such as Launchpad answers or Ubuntuforums. So honestly contacting a team by email does not make sense, and it should redirect to the Answers page.
Regards,
Ludovic
I got the mail too. I wonder if this is because the ubuntu-uk team has no contact address?