On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 03:40:57PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > This is a formal request for removal from the NAG distribution list. > > > > Receiving 100 useless messages, each indicating an outstanding bug, is the > > worst kind of spam. It imparts no information, either about the bugs, or > > any suggested fixes. It only adds useless mail to my inbox, which I must > > delete in order to see important mail. > > I don't want to remove people. I feel the nag service is a helpful service > for many people that just need a small push to encourage them to fix their > outstanding bugs. > > I can understand the problem with receiving hundreds of pieces of email > about it. Nag was never designed with the current system in mind. What > I've done instead is to change nag so that it only sends one piece of email > per maintainer which includes all bugs of a given type and severity. With > this, you'll never receive more than one email on any given day.
I propose the creation of two lists. One simply lists the bug numbers. The other attaches (via MIME or whatever) the complete bug traces. I usually check my mail *after* I go offline (I'm not online all the time), and seeing the bug transcripts would give me the extra push. As it is, the current system just annoys me - whether its one message or thirty, the fact is that a bug number is useless to me without either a local copy of the BTS, or all relevant info on that bug. Using the web pages is too tedious to do this, sending emails to control I always forget. And by belonging to either the list where you get bug-numbers (online users), or bug reports (offline users), everyone still gets nagged. -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc.
