Splitting automated mail from human mail?

[Christopher Aillon]

On 08/10/2005 11:38 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 17:46 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:35 -0700, Chip Turner wrote:
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>>>Anyone else think maybe the high flow of bugzilla and build mails
>>>would be better on a separate list, so that discussion, approvals, etc
>>>take place in a quieter, more filterable venue?  Or is it just me? :)
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>>Seconded. I wouldn't mind the initial "request for review" mail ending
>>up on this list so interested people can CC themselves but having ALL
>>the bugzilla traffic here for all the packages is a bit much.
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>Is it really worse than having all of the review discussion being here?
>I honestly don't think so.  And I think there's a lot of value in making
>the review process extremely transparent to people so that 
>a) They see how easy it is to review packages
>b) They see things which may be useful for their packages in the future
>c) They may see things where someone gets confused and says the wrong
>thing by mistake.
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>Getting the mail on the tracker changes is most of what makes things
>worse I think.  Otherwise, I really don't see a huge difference and I
>think that the benefits are worth the high traffic -- it's at least
>traffic with signal instead of just noise.
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The only real detriment as far as I can see to this is that now things 
are split off across multiple threads.  The initial request has a "New: 
" inserted in the middle of the subject, and subsequent replies don't.  
It makes it much more difficult to follow in e-mail than the list 
discussion previously.  I've never been a fan of that feature of bugmail.