No more bugreports from me.
It's not fun to reports bugs to the Debian bug tracking system. The thanks you get is spam. I have a special e-mail address that I use then I'm little afraid that it becomes public. My intention is to change that address then it collect to much spam. But my latest contribution to the Debian bug tracking system was a big mistake. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=45480 The report you can see was a ordinary e-mail sent to the maintainer of Aptitude. He saw it as a Dpkg thing and asked me if he could send it to the public dpkg list. I said O.K. Now you can think I have to blame myself but I could never thought about that he would include my personal information, including my main e-mail address, then he send it further to the public dpkg list. But he did. To avoid spam I send a mail, four days ago, to the Debian bug tracking system administrator and asked him to remove my personal information. I haven't heard from him and my personal information is still public in the bugreport. Today I got my first spam ever to my main e-mail address and now I'm very angry and dissatisfied. Spam should not be the drawback for reporting bugs, I think. And the Debian bug tracking system is not a place there I want to contribute anymore. Magnus Berg Burgsvik SWEDEN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
News in etch
Hi! With etch to be released really soon now (well... mor ore less ;) many of us will be in the need of listing new features and other nifty stuff etch will bring to our users; be it DDs invited to give a speach or journalists writing articles. Since it's quite hard to search all those nice things yourself (especially since it's hard to find all interesting news in such a large project), I started to list some stuff at http://wiki.debian.org/NewInEtch. Feel free to contribute other interesting stuff to that page (and of course to use that page for your work). Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: No more bugreports from me.
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 06:40, Magnus Berg wrote: It's not fun to reports bugs to the Debian bug tracking system. The thanks you get is spam. That's the price you pay for participation on the internet in any capacity, the Debian BTS is not a special case. I have a special e-mail address that I use then I'm little afraid that it becomes public. My intention is to change that address then it collect to much spam. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful Also check out spamassassin, it does pretty well even on spam forwarded by the BTS. The report you can see was a ordinary e-mail sent to the maintainer of Aptitude. He saw it as a Dpkg thing and asked me if he could send it to the public dpkg list. I said O.K. Now you can think I have to blame myself but I could never thought about that he would include my personal information, including my main e-mail address, then he send it further to the public dpkg list. But he did. You said he could. That's your fault. Besides, the moment you ever used your email address it became public information. Deal with it. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://jabber.ursine.ca/ pgpTYLVdkSz7h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 06:10, Dawn Russo wrote: I am receiving emails advertising watches. There is no unsubscribe information. But when I highlight the bottom of the page it shows a partial address to email if you would like to unsubscribe, the email address is @lists.debian.org. However since it isn't complete, I can't send a message. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM ANY MAILING LISTS THAT YOU MAY HAVE MY NAME ON OR THE FOLLOWING EMAIL ADDRESS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I DO NOT WANT TO BUY A WATCH. STOP HARRASSING ME. Please do some basic research. You do not do your professional or personal reputation, or the reputation of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society any credit by screaming and complaining about things that you do not seem to fully understand and that we cannot fix. 1) Debian does not sell watches (or any other product). 2) Debian has no interest in selling you a watch. 3) Typing in all capitals is screaming and generally considered, at best, about as professional as a six-year-old throwing a temper-tantrum. You might want to see http://debian.org/ for what Debian is actually about, and learn how to trace back an email to it's source based on headers (http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers.html), since spammers always forge their email addresses to avoid prosecution and delay getting shut down by their ISPs for violating their terms of service. Most ISPs prohibit spamming. Dawn Russo Dawn Russo, MSW Home LINKS Program Manager National Multiple Sclerosis Society Central New England Chapter 101A First Avenue, Suite 6 Waltham, MA 02451 800-493-9255 ext 155 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information provided by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is based upon professional advice, published experience and expert opinion. Information provided in response to questions does not constitute therapeutic recommendations or prescriptions. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society recommends that all questions and information be discussed with a personal physician. Studies show that early and ongoing treatment with an FDA-approved therapy can reduce future disease activity and improve quality of life for many people with multiple sclerosis. Talk to your health care professional and contact the National MS Society at www.nationalmssociety.org or 1-800-FIGHT-MS to learn about ways to help manage multiple sclerosis and about current research that may one day reveal a cure. Long, grandious, bandwidth-wasting signatures like this one do nothing to increase awareness and serve only to annoy and waste bandwidth when extended past four lines. Check this out: http://ursine.ca/McQuary_limit . If you have a useful message, your signature isn't the place for it, that's what the body of your message is for, otherwise it's almost as bad as spamming is. I would hope for the sake of MS patients that being self-interested and obnoxious really isn't how you conduct yourself and your org in person or on the internet. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://jabber.ursine.ca/ pgpLvYubKIAuj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: No more bugreports from me.
Hello The report you can see was a ordinary e-mail sent to the maintainer of Aptitude. He saw it as a Dpkg thing and asked me if he could send it to the public dpkg list. I said O.K. Now you can think I have to blame myself but I could never thought about that he would include my personal information, including my main e-mail address, then he send it further to the public dpkg list. But he did. It sounds to me that there was a misunderstanding and this is most unfortunate. However, misunderstanding happens, especially in written language. Please do not blame the Aptitude maintainer for this, since he probably thought, that your consent to forward your mail, covered the full email. However, in such a case it would be in my opinion most desirable, if the BTS administrator could act quickly to remedy the situation (even though the BTS is probably mirrored at various locations..). Best regards Ben -- Please do not send any email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- all email not originating from the mailing list will be deleted. Use the reply to address instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
