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bug#14556: suggestion for 'ls' coreutil, comma'd filesizes in -l output
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Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
bug#14556: suggestion for 'ls' coreutil, comma'd filesizes in -l output |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:09:31 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> > My take on this is that you have discovered a doc bug, in that our web
> > page is not making it clear that our bug reporting address is a publicly
> > archived mailing list (although this setup is typical for most open
> > source projects, it is not universal; and it takes an outsider's
> > perspective like yours to make us realize that we have unstated
> > assumptions that ended up surprising you). We could probably add a
> > sentence or two to the web page that makes it clear that your post goes
> > to a list, that we are unable to scrub anything you post (so even though
> > we do our best to munge things to minimize the effects, we cannot
> > guarantee that spammers will not obtain your address from your post),
> > and that list policy is to reply-to-all to keep you in the loop without
> > forcing you to subscribe to the list.
>
> Hopefully the current text is now obvious.
I like the new changes. The text is now very clear.
Bob