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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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