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Re: design issues in debian packages



Previously Brian May wrote:
> 1) packages that create a new userid and send mail to that userid
> without the administrator realizing. One great offender I just noticed
> recently (and still have to fix) is cricket.

cricket sends mail to root now. Is does have another major flaw
related to email that explains your huge mailbox: if you ever get a
single error that gets logged it will mail that error to you every time
it runs after that, which is every 5 minutes by default. 

Wichert.

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