Glenn Maynard wrote:
> It boils down to whether maintainers want to receive bugs at all from
> people whose return address is invalid. Some do (a bug's a bug, after
> all, whether or not the submitter can be contacted), and some don't
> (it makes bugs much harder to track down, and it's much more difficult
> to weed erroneous reports). On one hand, the first group needs an
> option (forcing these reply-checks on everyone is no good), and on the
> other it'd be nice to find a solution that works for both groups.
This argument makes the assumption that valididty of email address is a
primary factor in determining if you can get back in communicaton with a
bug reporter. In my experience this is not the case -- in the 5% or so of
my bug reports in which I need to contact the submitter and cannot get a
reply from them, bouncing mail is far in the minority behind people who
cannot be bothered to reply to a query. Something like 99% of the people
who do not reply to a query appear to get the mail, and just can't be
bothered to hit 'r'[1].
Ergo, if we require *everyone* to reply to a query before they can
submit a bug, we'll probably lose a large fraction of bug reports.
--
see shy jo
[1] I'm assuming that my mails are rarely mis-filtered out as spam or
something like that. Happens, but in general seems to be quite rare.
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