Re: Lack of replies
On January 2, 2024 6:04:18 PM UTC, Steven Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> wrote:
>On Friday, December 29, 2023 2:18:41 P.M. CST Steven Robbins wrote:
>
>
>> In the case of the BTS: it used to email me but that broke a couple years
>> ago and apparently it is hard to fix. So currently a class of us don't get
>> email from any bug reports.
>
>Andrey Rakhmatullin asked "what is that class?".
>
>It's unclear to me. From the last discussion [1], it seems like it should be
>everyone. Maybe it is everyone whose mail infrastructure looks at DMARC [2]?
>
>I think Sébastien Noel's 2021 note to the bug report is germane to this
>discussion:
>
>"""
>Same observation here:
>DMARC aggregate reports notifies me that emails sends to the BTS
>are not delivered to the final recipient.
>
>I should not be surprised anymore if bugreports are left un-answered,
>maintainers are simply not getting notification...
>
>Since the last comment of this bug, 4 months have passed and no
>reaction.
>I suspect that nobody recieved the last email, and my guts tell me
>that i'm writing to /dev/null rigth now :(
>
>Without a working BTS, i'm wondering :
>Is the project still interested by users' feedback ?
>"""
>
>
>[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/09/msg00273.html
>[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754809
>
Alternatively, BTS users that are interested in others getting their emails might be better off posting from a domain that doesn't have a DMARC policy that's designed to be used for domains that send only transactional email (i.e. no human users). It's working fine for me.
Scott K
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