On 9/18/05, Philip Guenther <guenther+mtafilters(_at_)sendmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
However, the suggestion that the implementation should log these events
is kinda weird. In my experience, admins have *no* interest in being
bothered by this stuff. Indeed, providing users with an automated way
to bother admins would be considered a DoS attack by some people. The
problem is that it's notifying the wrong party: the author of the script
should be notified, not the admin. IMHO, invalid flag names and flags
that can't be set (like \recent) should either be silently ignored or be
considered an actual error.
Who says the log has to be something read by an admin instead of a user?
-Rob
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