On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:39, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Gerard Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I got the impression that some developers were reluctant to use the
>> mailing list; for example, I posted a message about net_monitor, got
>> invited to post code, did it, got absolutely no answer, reposted in
>> case the code had been lost, in vain, gave up, then noticed that the
>> code had been indeed added to net_monitor.

> you have to understand that we receive lots of mails (i mean several
> thousands per day).
> we use scorring and the like to reduce the text volume to read but it
> still takes time.
> so when an adknowledgment (such as "ok", "thanks", "won't do it",
> "we'll do that after the release", ...) would be fine, we sometimes
> don't do it.

Would an adaptation to KMail (or whatever y'all use) to do boilerplate replies 
help? I'm talking about something like a toolbar:

  +-----+ +-------+ +-----+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
  |     | |       | |     | | After | | Need  | | Fixed | | Wash  |
  | Yes | | Sorry | | No! | | this  | | more  | | in    | | mouth |  ...
  |     | |       | |     | | relse | | input | | curnt | | out   |
  +-----+ +-------+ +-----+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+

It wouldn't be too hard to rig KMail for this. That way it takes under a 
second to do a standard response like `Has anyone else seen this?' or `Bug 
referred upstream'.

Cheers; Leon


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