On 06/04/2013 09:20 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding the list back in the loop; also adding bug-coreutils to get a > bug number assigned for 2 doc bugs, and slightly reformatting to avoid > excessive top-posting] > > On 06/04/2013 01:44 PM, smu johnson wrote: >> I did reply on purpose to you, but only because I wasn't sure about some of >> the text you wrote in your original reply, and because I didn't realize it >> was a list until now. >> >> I got the first email address from http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/, >> where it says, "Send general questions or suggestions to: [email protected]". >> It didn't warn me that sending an email is the equivalent to sending to a >> mailing list. So I mistakenly thought you were in charge of answering >> emails. My bad, sorry about that. > > My take on this is that you have discovered a doc bug, in that our web > page is not making it clear that our bug reporting address is a publicly > archived mailing list (although this setup is typical for most open > source projects, it is not universal; and it takes an outsider's > perspective like yours to make us realize that we have unstated > assumptions that ended up surprising you). We could probably add a > sentence or two to the web page that makes it clear that your post goes > to a list, that we are unable to scrub anything you post (so even though > we do our best to munge things to minimize the effects, we cannot > guarantee that spammers will not obtain your address from your post), > and that list policy is to reply-to-all to keep you in the loop without > forcing you to subscribe to the list.
Hopefully the current text is now obvious. thanks, Pádraig.
