>but issues like database corruption, bad networks, and DoS attacks can >happen which you don't expect, and can't test properly in staging. all >of these can cause a flood of emails bring down mail servers rending >other parts of your system unworkable..not a good idea at all.
That's especially true since he runs a high-traffic site - those things that really high-traffic sites add as additional problems (that never show up in moderate traffic sites) can be _really_ hard to find and are allmost impossible to find in a staging system. So, yes, I do agree that the kind of error reporting could be configureable and maybe it even should default to logging instead of mailing - although I usually prefer emailing, even if that produceses a little mail-storm from time to time - but then, I usually have a dedicated mailserver, so those bursts aren't that big a problem. Just never try to forward those error mails to your SMS device ;-) bye, Georg
