Re: NAG messages.
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 03:40:57PM -0400, Brian White wrote:
> > This is a formal request for removal from the NAG distribution list.
> >
> > Receiving 100 useless messages, each indicating an outstanding bug, is the
> > worst kind of spam. It imparts no information, either about the bugs, or
> > any suggested fixes. It only adds useless mail to my inbox, which I must
> > delete in order to see important mail.
>
> I don't want to remove people. I feel the nag service is a helpful service
> for many people that just need a small push to encourage them to fix their
> outstanding bugs.
>
> I can understand the problem with receiving hundreds of pieces of email
> about it. Nag was never designed with the current system in mind. What
> I've done instead is to change nag so that it only sends one piece of email
> per maintainer which includes all bugs of a given type and severity. With
> this, you'll never receive more than one email on any given day.
I propose the creation of two lists. One simply lists the bug numbers.
The other attaches (via MIME or whatever) the complete bug traces. I usually
check my mail *after* I go offline (I'm not online all the time), and seeing the
bug transcripts would give me the extra push. As it is, the current system
just annoys me - whether its one message or thirty, the fact is that a bug
number is useless to me without either a local copy of the BTS, or
all relevant info on that bug. Using the web pages is too tedious to do this,
sending emails to control I always forget.
And by belonging to either the list where you get bug-numbers (online users),
or bug reports (offline users), everyone still gets nagged.
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