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In article <9006072322.AA23407@pogo> Len Tower writes:

[ concerning someone's not getting a reply to his bug report ]

> You had the right group.

> You shouldn't neccessary expect an answer.  Appended is some text from
> etc/MAILINGLISTS in the GNU Emacs distribution.  You can look in the
> file etc/SERVICE for people who might be willing to help for $$$.
> Of course other bash users help out as they can.

In this world of sub-perfect mailers and news transport agents, should
you not at least consider an automagic reply like:

	"Your message, dated such-and-such,
	with Message-ID such-and-such has been received.  It is possible
	that you may not receive any further response from us.
	For more information regarding why, please mail the automatic
	response mailbox autoserve@prep.ai.mit.edu with a Subject:
	field of WHY, or the word WHY as the first non-blank line
	of your message.  This autoresponse can be suppressed in further
	bug reports by making the first line of your bnug report contain
	the string NO-AUTO-RESPONSE-PLEASE"

You would also gain in not having to drag out that explanation every
time someone is worried that his bug report didn't make it.  It wouldn't
be hard to implement on top of an automatic mail response server (that
imaginary autoserve referred to above) which would be useful to have in
any case.

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
People like to have some sort of confirmation that their mail/posting worked.
It gives us a warm fuzzy feeling inside.  At the very least, when we get
such a response, we can say to ourselves "They really don't care" without
having guilt feelings about blaming "them" for the sins of a broken mailer.
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
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