Re: bug reporting
Derek Martin wrote:
>That's an unfortunate reality... Mailing lists get bombarded with
>spam otherwise. You just have to live with it.
There is the option to hold posts from non-subscribers for moderation,
rather than reject them outright. I do this on mailing lists that I
manage with Mailman. I'm not saying you *must* do this, you understand,
it's just a more helpful option. I would also have been entirely
satisfied with some way to directly mail an individual developer,
who could have forwarded the message to the mailing list if ey thought
it right.
I'm only objecting to having to subscribe to a mailing list in order
to mail the developers. I'm not fussy about the exact mechanism for
getting my message there.
>If it is not working for you, the problem appears to be that your
>installation of Lynx is broken in some way,
Ah, I've found the problem now, and it turns out
to be a Lynx bug. The login form data gets POSTed to
<http://bugs.mutt.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=mutt>. That yields
the "Redirecting..." page, which has a link to the very same URL, but of
course I'm now supposed to GET it. strace reveals that when I select
the link Lynx actually repeats the POST rather than doing the GET.
If I modify the URL by adding "&a=b" on the end then I get into gnats.
So, I'm sorry to have blamed you for that problem. I'll report it as a
Lynx bug. Now that I've got access to gnats, should I report my issue
there, or would that now be redundant with the mail I sent to this list?
-zefram