Jabber ids look like email addresses, causing confusion
Bug #82002 reported by
Matthew East
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I recently had an email which was cc:ed to a number of people. The sender later asked me why several of these had bounced an email back to him: the answer is that he had used their @jabber.com ids as email addresses; he had obviously gone to their launchpad pages and picked up those addresses.
I think Launchpad needs to make it clearer that these are not email addresses - it's very confusing for people who don't know what Jabber is. This is particularly true because for people who aren't logged in, email addresses don't appear at all, whereas Jabber ids do.
Revision history for this message
| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote Re: [Bug 82002] Re: Jabber ids look like email addresses, causing confusion | #2 |
Revision history for this message
| Przemek K. (azrael) wrote | #3 |
| affects: | launchpad-foundations → launchpad-registry |
| Changed in launchpad-registry: | |
| importance: | Medium → Low |
| tags: | added: jabber |
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Confirmed -- I was one of the intended recipients. :-) Not sure of a good solution, though -- saying "these are not e-mail addresses" would work, but be heavy-handed. Perhaps we could group e-mail and Jabber addresses together, so that if you hide the former you also hide the latter.