Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation..."

[Peter S Galbraith]

"Eli Zaretskii" wrote:

> > From: Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
> > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:13:30 -0500
> > 
> > I few years ago I posted a question, and posted it again a year later
> > after having no replies the first time.  I got flamed for not reading
> > gnu.emacs.bug where my question was answered the first time.  How was
> > I supposed to guess?
> 
> I think whoever flamed you was mistaken 

Agreed.
>                                         (if they indeed flamed you, as
> opposed to simply pointing out that an identical bug was already
> reported and solved). 

It was a flame.  Turned out to be a non-bug.

>                        I don't think users who report bugs are
> required to read past reports.

Agreed.  My point is that I posted a question, replied no answer
via email, didn't know my question was actually posted on
gnu.emacs.bug where someone replied to it, posted the question
again because I thought I had had no reply the first time.

Had the bug reporting message been clearer, I would have known to
look for replies in gnu.emacs.bug via dejanews (which worked well
at the time).

Peter