Re: Bug#204928: reportbug: couldn't call from xargs
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:24:14AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
[write-only bug reports from a particular person]
> I'm about --><-- this close to considering the above abuse of the BTS
> and justification for a ban, although I'm slightly scared of the
> slippery slope down which that might lead us. Dan, please reconsider
> your wilful abuse of developers' time, because I do not want to have to
> make this decision.
I don't think that slope is one to be traversed for people who are actually
reporting bugs (no matter how stupid they may be). It might be that every
once in a while he finds something worth fixing.
I don't know, maybe he's never reported a real bug in his life, so my
judgement might be flawed. But I think[1] I'd prefer to get the reports,
say "pfft, you idiot" and close them, than to not get the reports at all.
At the very least it might inject a spot of humour into my day... <g>
[1] Based on surmise only. Maybe it's more annoying than I realise; I've
never been subject to a bug-flood on any of my packages...
- Matt
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