On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-01-24 02:00:34 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 17:07 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Or an option in reportbug to do so, turned on by default. It could put > > > an X- header in the email. > > > > > > That way users of reportbug can choose to be 'spammed' or not. > > > > This is still unconfirmed opt-in > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt-in_email#Unconfirmed_opt-in>. > > Well, when reporting a bug, the user always receives a mail from the > BTS. This mail could also be used as a confirmation message for this > and future bug reports: if the user replies, he will automatically be > subscribed to all bugs "he" reports. The next bug reports may be > forged, but the user would have done the confirmation step, so > couldn't complain. Or better, the reply to the confirmation message > could contain a private key that could be used by reportbug to insert > a X- header identifying the author of the next bug reports.
Something along these lines is what I'm planning on doing. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150128180834.gk31...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
