Comment 7 for bug 82663

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 82663] Re: Can't use your own e-mail address as contact address for a team

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:09:57AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> I was going to suggest renaming it to "Mailing list address". But since
> "If no contact address is chosen, notifications directed to this team
> will be sent to all team members", even that would be redundant.
>
> What proportion of teams use the field currently? Perhaps we could talk
> with some of them and see if dropping it would cause any grief.

I don't think simply dropping the contact address of a team is a good
idea. One example is ubuntu-bugs, where the members get permission to
edit a bug's importance, but they usually don't want to receive all the
bug notifications that are sent to the ubuntu-bugs mailing list.

Another example is Launchpad itself. If the bug notifications weren't
sent to a mailing list, it would be impossible to know which
notifications were sent to me directly, and which were sent to the
team. (This is bug 3797)