On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:25 AM, curtis Hovey wrote: >Do not make me subscribe to team mailing list, just send me the emails. If I >do not want to participate in the community, I can leave the team. At the >very least, make mailing list subscriptions automatic, and permit me >filter-out non-urgent messages. The point is, membership in the team is >synonymous with the mailing list. When a member needs to contact the team >members, an email to the mailing list can be trusted to work.
This could solve a problem that I often have with folks who really *just* want to subscribe to the mailing list. As a team administrator, I can join the person to the team, but I cannot subscribe them to the list. The user still has to do this explicitly themselves. Originally, this policy was adopted because it was the easiest way to deal with opt-in policies, both as a general netiquette rule, and as law in some jurisdictions. However, I now think that this could be relaxed in some situations if: - Opt-out was made dead simple (which I think it mostly is or can be through the use of one-click buttons and the proper decorations on email messages). - The opt-out policy were *clearly* stated in general Launchpad documentation, and right on the team page (and maybe in the team-join workflow). - (Possibly) teams could opt into opt-out. This has come up many times before, and it's tied into a deeper question of how to present pages for team which solely exist to support a mailing list. Let's ignore that for now though. -Barry
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