<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Reducing Spam</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.64 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Bugzilla Guide" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="The Future of Bugzilla" HREF="future.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="The Future of Bugzilla" HREF="future.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Better Searching" HREF="searching.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECTION" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Bugzilla Guide</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="future.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 6. The Future of Bugzilla</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="searching.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECTION" ><H1 CLASS="SECTION" ><A NAME="SPAMLITE" >6.1. Reducing Spam</A ></H1 ><P ><P CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT" >Those who use Bugzilla frequently are probably used to notification spam<br> - unwanted or unnecessary notifications. A number of proposals have<br> been put forward to attempt to reduce this.<br> <br> 1. Reduce CC Spam<br> <br> Some of you probably know me as that guy who CCs on heaps and heaps of<br> bugs. Just as you get a lot of CC changes from me, so do I get a lot<br> from others. Why should CC changes send out email notifications?<br> <br> It's not necessarily the best idea to just remove the CC spam, there are<br> other issues too, like the difficulty of adding to large CC fields.<br> <br> For these reasons and more, an RFE for a per user "BCC" facility exists<br> that people could use to silently and privately track bugs, in a similar<br> way to voting today, but applying to an unlimited number of bugs. See<br> "http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7345".<br> <br> 2. Bulk Changes<br> <br> You know the drill - a large milestone change, a component movement,<br> whatever, and lots of notifications are generated. If there's enough<br> maybe you'll just go delete, delete, delete, whoops, there goes another<br> notification that wasn't from the bulk change you missed.<br> <br> Shouldn't bulk changes send out one notification? A proposal for this<br> is at "http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26943".<br> <br> 3. Configurable Notification Criteria<br> <br> It would be good if you could choose what you want to receive. There<br> are two parts to this.<br> <br> (a) Choose a selection of bugs you're interested in. This would be<br> similar to CC except you let the set be computed from selection criteria<br> rather than limited to the bugs your name is on. There is currently a<br> limited version of this in the bugzilla preferences, ie "all qualifying<br> bugs"/"all qualifying bugs except the ones I change"/"only those bugs<br> which I am listed on the cc line".<br> (b) Choose what changes will trigger a notification for the bugs you are<br> watching. With this, you could choose whether you want to receive cc,<br> dependency and keyword changes, for example.<br> <br> Both of these proposals live at<br> "http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14137".<br> Note that they also live at<br> "http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17464", and the change <br> has been checked in. This is fixed with Bugzilla 2.12 and is no longer<br> an issue. Woo-Hoo!</P ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="future.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="searching.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >The Future of Bugzilla</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="future.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Better Searching</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >