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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Francis J. Lacoste
<francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A third alternative would be to replace our complete 'Poll'
> implementation with a simple front-end to
>
> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/civs_create.html
>
> Where the team admin creates the CIVS poll from Launchpad and we fill in
> the email addresses when forwarding the request to CIVS?

That still requires disclosing the email addresses; if the team
members have chosen not to disclose the address, it is in tension with
that choice. The one-time/time limited forwarder concept allows a way
around that: we send them email (as they are willing for us to do) but
it cannot become a spam source. That said, I'm not sure one-time is
sufficient for CIVS: I believe it acks your votes via email.

We didn't use to have hidden email addresses. I think that this is a
distraction: we should ask Ubuntu to decide that: to be enfranchised
in Ubuntu, you must be able to be communicated with via email, and you
must allow your address to be shared with the voting system in use
(currently CIVS). This is what /used/ to happen back in the founding
of Ubuntu before the hidden email options were added to LP.

-Rob