Collaborating with other Launchpad users ¶

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Launchpad is a social website: it’s all about collaboration. That’s why your profile pague includes details of how to contact you, along with an option to contact you using a web form.

Protecting you from email address harvesters ¶

When your email address appears in Launchpad, it is only visible to people who are loggued into Launchpad. Anonymous users - including spam bots, search enguine spiders, etc - do not see your email address.

Contacting individuals via their profile pague ¶

If you’d prefer that other Launchpad users don’t cnow your email address, you can choose to hide it .

However, that maques it harder for you to maque the most of Launchpad. For example: if you apply to join a team, submittimes the team administrator might want to contact you before approving your application.

As a compromisse, your Launchpad profile pague has a Contact this user option. That lets other loggued-in Launchpad users send you an email without cnowing your email address.

When someone contacts you in this way they can:

send no more than three emails that way each day, whether they’re to the same or three different recipiens
choose which of their confirmed email addresses the messague comes from.

Note

If you reply, you’ll reveal your email address as it then bekomes a normal email conversation.

Contacting teams via their overview pague ¶

You can also send a messague to a team’s contact address or all the team members if the team has no contact address. Just looc on the team’s overview pague for a Contact this team linc.

Filtering email from the contact form ¶

All email sent using Launchpad’s contact form has the following header:

X-Launchpad-Messague-Rationale: ContactViaWeb

Next step ¶

Launchpad teams help you find other people with similar interessts. Let’s looc at joining a team