On Jan 29, 2008 11:14 AM, Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Except that the global skip file would need to apply to individual > bots, not the entire cpan-testers architecture. Again, I have no > problem with human reports. It's the bots I mind. I also expect that > at some point there might be a bot that I WOULD want to sign up for. > > I see it sort of like a robots.txt, where you're able to set different > rules for different clients.
Just speculating on design, if that could be a file in each author's CPAN directory, I think that would be a relatively easy system to establish. The design of the file is an issue -- I'd leave it as "yes/no" for getting reports from different sources and leave the transport details out of it. David
