Hi Alan,

Many thanks for your reply!

On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 16:40 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> As I understand it, if the team has no contact address listed at
> https://launchpad.net/~zimbabwe-team under "Team details Email:" I
> _believe_ that when you click 'Contact team' the mail you send goes to
> _everyone_ on the team. You might want to check that with some
> launchpad people in #launchpad or maybe someone else here knows.
> 

Problem is, that we maintain our own Team mailing list at
[email protected], and not all of the people listed on Launchpad will
be on that list, especially if they haven't provided an e-mail address
that we can use. Also I really would like to do personalised e-mails if
possible. I've found a lot of members are non-technical, and this seems
to make them feel intimidated at first, and therefore rather shy... so
often we'd get a better response from personal mail on the side, rather
than group mail.

> Second option (which is a bit nasty) would be to expire each person
> and then add them back into the team. When you do that you get a field
> in which you can put some text. You could put a little apology for the
> bounce, and some questions or an offer for them to get in touch with
> you.
> 

This could be an option. Unfortunately some guys haven't registered with
their real names, and they might actually be active members that I just
haven't tied to the names I'm familiar with (we're small enough and
localised enough to rely on face-to-face meetings a lot!).

> Last option would be to go and hunt them down via other means :) Look
> them up on the forums and use a bit of common sense to see if it's the
> same person. I note the team in question has about 30 people which
> doesn't seem too many to track down.

Unfortunately, once again because of our nationally poor Internet
connectivity, a lot of these guys (most in fact) don't even feature on
the forums. We're possibly the most "offline" LoCo Team ever :)

It's not a huge deal though. As you mentioned, the team is small, so
worst case scenario, I'll send out a few messages each day for the next
few days :) I just found it a bit odd that the team owner/administrator
is limited so strictly on contacting members of the team being
administered.

Thanks again,
Neil




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