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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 1, 2009, at 5:01 AM, Henning Eggers wrote:

> Hi,
> I just found out that I could purge (remove) a mailing list for a team
> by clikcing on "Add mailing list". This is a little like clicking on
> "Start" to shut down a computer... ;-)

The wording of the link changed during UI 3.0.  It used to say  
"Configure mailing list" in which case the other actions that can  
appear on the ~team/+mailinglist page make more sense.

I think it's fine for the link to say "Add mailing list" when the team  
has not yet requested a mailing list.  After that, the link should say  
"Configure mailing list".  That's the bug (IMO) that I invite you to  
submit :).

> Is there a bug about this or is this intended? As I don't own the team
> nor am an administrator of it, I guess I was able to do it because I  
> am
> in Canonical LP Engineering (for CHR purposes). Is this feature  
> supposed
> to be used be team owners and admins? In that case it should be more
> visible, I think.

Purging is generally only done by mailing-list-experts, which you are  
a member of by virtue of ~launchpad.  Normal team owners shouldn't  
ever need to purge a mailing list.  That feature is there to support  
the use case of team renames, list creation failures, and other corner  
cases.

-Barry

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