>> It's foolish to require a bug submitter to supply an email address. > >I stop here. Debian BTS is email-based, so you *need* a working email >address in order to be contacted by who needs to get your input.
Nonsense. In principle, of course an e-mail address is not required. Followup questions are already posted publically. A working email is only "needed" because of a misguided design limitation of the reportbug tool. The design is broken. The current lousy design is like someone sending a public mailing list reply, and then sending a private copy to someone who reads the public channel anyway, resulting in two copies, one of which pollutes a private inbox beyond the control of the recipient. Like spam. Only this time it's not an individual fool doing it, but a systemic issue inherent in a broken system. >I'm closing this report, it has nothing to do with reportbug. Of course it has to do with reportbug. Reportbug needlessly requires a needless field. E-mail with "no_re...@blahblah.tld" in the FROM field is both SMTP and RFC compliant. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
