Re: if I report debian bugs will I get emailed for life?
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 06:19:47PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> You will get email in the following circumstances :
> 1) the maintainer acknowledges or closes the bug
> (if you reported it, don't you want to know it's been fixed?)
> 2) the maintainer (or someone else) wants to discuss it with you
> 3) some person or bot finds your address on the but report page
> and decides to send you a message
The mail load from reporting Debian bugs is really quite light, I find.
> You will not get flooded with unrequested email simply by reporting a
> bug. If you really want to you can use Dave.Null@dman.ddts.net as
> your return address, but if you do don't complain about not getting
> any updates.
... and don't complain if the maintainer closes the bug out of hand
because he/she needs to get more information from you and has no way to
contact you.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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