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From:
Richard Foley
Date:
March 21, 2000 23:00
Subject:
Re: duplicate bug IDs? [20000128.002]
Message ID:
38D8709C.9B47517F@m.dasa.de
Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:02:50PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > I just ran perlbug -ok and this showed up in my logs:
> >
> > Mar 21 15:00:46 audit_mail[1271]: New mail from Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
> > Mar 21 15:00:46 audit_mail[1271]:     deposit into lists
> > Mar 21 15:00:59 audit_mail[17477]: New mail from Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
> > Mar 21 15:00:59 audit_mail[17477]:     duplicate message id <200003212200.PAA24595@jhereg.perl.com> discarded
> >
> > The first is the confirmation ticket number.  The second, well, I don't
> > know.  I suppose it might be the report.  But I didn't get it, because
> > I drop duplicate message ids.  Are we sending out two separate
> > messages -- both the bug report *and* its confirmation -- under
> > the same message id!?
> 
> Yes, people have been complaining about this problem for some time.  I hope
> something is being done to fix it.
> 
> http://bugs.perl.org/pbdb.cgi?req=tidmids&tidmids=20000128.002
> 
> Ronald

Yup, Mike Guy sent a couple of mails on this subject too, I don't think
I realised it was dropping the actual reports from getting through.

This may sound daft, but I've been avoiding enabling the revised email
side of things, while everyone was/is in the middle of the latest
release.  OK, I'll go do it now.

Ciao
Richard Foley
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