Re: request to kill nag messages
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 18:10 +0100 1999-05-20, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> >On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 06:47:28AM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >>
> >> Brian> Nag also sends emails regarding old bugs on your packages. I never
> >> Brian> subscribed to that. :p
> >>
> >> All I'm saying: Everybody is free to procmail away whatever they don't like.
> >
> >This sounds like a good idea - send the Nag reports to the email address
> >@debian.org (which hopefully everyone has). Then if some kind soul could
> >tell us what lines to add where to filter it everyone will be happy.
>
> Don't presume to speak for everyone.
>
> I would not be happy with that.
>
> I will only say that "just filter it out" or "just press the delete
> key" are spammers' answers.
>
> I am well aware of my bugs, and I DO NOT need reminders of them.
>
> One last thing, the next nag message I get will be treated as spam.
One way to deal with this is to just mark all your bugs as wish list. The
nags don't react to wish list bugs ;-)
Luck,
Dwarf
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