Re: Choice of bug tracker

[Michael Albinus]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

Hi,

>> I did not have problems with sending the mail to the right address but
>> knowing whether my mail reached the mailing list/debbugs was an issue
>> since I could not see it pop up in the bug-gnu-emacs mailing list
>> archive.  Much later I learnt that there is a manual approval process
>> for fresh email addresses and that's why my acknowledgement mail was
>> sent some 10 hours later (I went to sleep after submitting said bug
>> report).  If there was a message along the lines of, “Your message has
>> been received and will be forwarded to the Emacs developers once your
>> email address has been manually approved to check whether your mail is
>> spam or not” I think the first experience would have been smoother.
>
> Agree. Isn't is possible to create an automatic bouncer for
> non-subscribed non-whitelisted users to notify them about moderation?

That's not done because it would give the spammers the feedback that the
used mail address is valid. With the likelihood to get more spam.

Best regards, Michael.