Deny joining of teams

[Christian Robottom Reis]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:47:32AM -0300, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> > My idea was to deny users without a mail address joining teams. Steve's
> > idea was to do either that, or to add to launchpad a way to send people
> > a message even when they don't show their email address.
> > 
> > The messaging feature sounds tempting, but it looks like it would take
> > more time than the other solution. Simple blocking could act as an
> > interim solution.
> > 
> 
> I think it would be nice to provide a way for users to send messages to
> other users through Launchpad and we'll probably implement it at some
> point, but it may take some time, indeed.
> 
> > Steve asked me to start the discussion on this mailing list, so I'm
> > happy to hear better suggestions.
> 
> Another possibility would be to show the preferred email of the proposed
> member on the /people/<team-name>/+member/<proposed-member-name> page.
> Although it may not be nice from us to show the user's email address when
> he asked us not to do so, I think it's somewhat reasonable, since that
> user proposed himself as a member of the team.  We could even warn the
> user that proposing himself as a member of a team will give the admins
> of the team the right to see his email addresses, in case he have chosen
> not to show them.  How does it sound?

Between the three options:

    1. Forbid users who don't display their email address publically
       from joining teams.

    2. Send messages to others through Launchpad.

    3. Disclose the email address to team administrators.

I think (unfortunately) that only solution 2 is actually reasonable.

PS. Daniel, BTW, could you perhaps discover this user's email address by
Googling?
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