Re: [[email protected]: Re: Perlbug 20000330.030 status update]

Michael Stevens wrote:
> 
> What if anything do we want to do about this? He's got a point about
> the html, for a start...
Yup.

> Subject: Re: Perlbug status update
> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 17:05:41 +0100
> From: Mike Guy <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected],[email protected],[email protected]
> 
> What is the significance of the attached message I just received from
> [email protected] ?
> 
> Is it just an accident which shouldn't have been sent to me?
Because you're on the Cc: list (in fact you're the originator :-)

<quote>
Subject: Re: use() bug in 5.005_02
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
From: "M.J.T. Guy" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:29:38 +0100
</quote>

> If so, ignore the rest of this.
When the status of a bug is updated, all admins who have worked on it, 
and all people who have been Cc: on it arenotified of the change of status, 
unless on modification the 'nocc' option is used.  
People have been crying for this feature for a while :-)

> If not, why are you posting HTML?   Especially with no Content-type
> to say so.
It's only a couple of stray 'pre' tags...
All the same, you are of course correct, and I'll strip them out of the next
run.

> And why is the Envelope-from: [email protected] an apparently
> invalid address.    (Or perhaps it *is* a real address.   Hmmm... I'll
> add it to the To: field to see.)
? no idea ?

> And if it *is* an attempt to report on the progress of the bug report,
> it needs some more explanation of what it's all about.    And reflecting
> my own message back to me isn't the most useful thing to do.
Yup, I'll fit in a 'this is a status report' type of message somewhere next
time around.

> P.S.   Just because I keep niggling about things, it doesn't mean that
>        I don't appreciate the good work you're doing.
No, it's OK, keeps me on my toes, and hey wouldn't it be boring no-one ever
had anything to say about it?
;-)

Ciao
Richard Foley
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