On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:38:22PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > 2.- Send email to every bug-sender with a text like this: > > Don't do this. You ought to at least have a look at the bug report > before sending e-mail to people. I'd get annoied if I got a bunch of > mail about bugs that could either be trivially verified by the sender > or where looking at the bug report would provide some explanation as to > why the bug is still open. Autogenerated mail of this nature stands a > very good chance of being counterproductive.
Note that Remco Blaakmeer has done something similar to what Luis proposed a couple of years ago. However, he didn't mail submitters, he mailed maintainers. (Examples of this can be seen in old bugs such as #4449.) Unfortunately I don't have details on how fruitful his attempt was. I'm CC:ing him -- Remco, what was the reaction to your "Old bugs need to be looked at" mails? -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
