Harald Braumann wrote: > While I personally like to be kept updated on all bugs I file and would > welcome an auto-subscribe feature, one has to accept the fact that > others might not. I always find it very irritating if The System > forces things on me because it thinks it knows what's best for everyone > and regards me as a half-witted imbecile who is not capable of making > his own decisions or anticipate their consequences.
OTOH, the system does have to ensure consistent behavior. Having submitters CCed by default and then still needing to CC them to be sure they get your questions is not consistent behavior. It's just plain silly. Either we change the default, or we don't. If we do, some people will just have to accept the change. > Therefore there needs to be an opt-out feature. And it should be > clear how to opt out and simple to use. I'm not sure there should be, not for the submitter. And, as Steve Langasek rightly mentioned, the submitter _can_ be changed in the Debian BTS. >> It will also solve the problem that I've seen numerous times that CCs >> from me directly get rejected by submitters through overly aggressive >> spam filtering. (And yes, I do send out mails through my ISP.) > > No it won't. If there is no simple way to opt-out, the spam filter is > the only solution to work-around what some might consider an > inconvenience. You misunderstand. There's a HUGE difference between people *filtering* out unwanted mail and *rejecting legitimate mail as spam* just because of some persieved incorrectness in the mail headers that the sender has absolutely zero influence over because his ISP does not understand the extreme correctness requirements some people wish to enforce. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
