"Abuse" of Contact User feature

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Nov 30, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Martin Pool wrote:

> There is some discussion of limiting it to only people with positive
> karma, which is presumed to be people with some idea of how to use the
> tools and what is polite.

And/or good personal standing, which you get if you've been a good  
mailing list citizen.

> As I understand it the real purpose of this is to let project admins
> contact users who've hidden their mail address.

Also, community helpers who are approving various things (e.g. mailing  
lists) sometimes need to contact users.

> It might be good to show a message about how to ask for support,
> request cds, report problems with Launchpad, etc, before sending a
> message.

That makes sense.  I wouldn't want too much text on that page, but we  
can get Matthew Revell to suggest something reasonable.

- -Barry

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