Re: Bug reports closed by spammers
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:31:30AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> > I don't know if this was reported publicly already, but this is the second
> > of my bugreports that get closed by a spam message - I had already reported
> > the previous one to owner@bugs.
> >
> > Not sure how we can scan the BTS DB for such closed bugs that possibly went
> > unnoticed. Anyway, this really sucks.
>
> The submitter should notice that the "explanation" is actually a spam. If
> they don't, they should at least notice that their bug was not fixed, and
> ask why the bug was closed.
This is really not adequate. First, submitters may be long gone.
Second, we shouldn't expect users who have done the kindness of
reporting the bug to be willing to continually track its progress.
The maintainer, however, should be paying attention.
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