Re: Bug#204928: reportbug: couldn't call from xargs
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:01:11AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> 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.
Indeed I think its a dangerous precedent to set. Of course, I don't have
to deal with his reports..
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Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/
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