This is a particularly common problem with team maintenance packages or with psuedo-packages (like release.debian.org) where a lot of people may be on the list.
Please always include the package name / topic in the subject of the email or, as a matter of last resort, in the first few lines of the content of the message. I see a lot of email of the type: Subject: ping Body: Any update on this issue? EOF Umm, *which* issue? For anyone to know what is going on, it means that every subscriber has to either ignore the email or go to the bug report manually and work out which package or which type of request is being made for a pseudo-package. I know, this only goes to a subset of bug submitters and I've done this myself on occasion (and sworn at myself when I get the ack) but can people from this list *please* include something specific to the actual package/topic in the Subject of emails to bug reports? At the very least, something in the first few lines of the content saying what you are pinging? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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