in reply to Re^3: Reporting a bug in Perl is tricky
in thread Reporting a bug in Perl is tricky

I haven't used perlbug, but from the discussion (and from the source :-)) it might help to simply change the text from "Message sent" to "Message has been handed over to your mail system". For anyone who is capable of using perlbug in the first place, that should be sufficient. Rats! Now I have to find out how to make a pull request :-)

Update: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128180

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Re^5: Reporting a bug in Perl is tricky
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 19, 2016 at 16:44 UTC

    it might help to simply change the text from "Message sent" to "Message has been handed over to your mail system"

    That's just a noisy way of saying the same thing. Sending an email is a chain of handoffs, and there's never a guarantee that a sent email will reach its target.

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      You know that, and therefore for you it is mere noise. Does the "average" person reporting perl bugs know it?

      I admit that finding bugs in perl that don't turn out to be bugs in one's own code, calls for a certain amount of expertise, and so anyone using perlbug might know this anyway, and perhaps the OP was an exception, but …
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        If they don't know email is unreliable, I don't see how the alternative phrasing you proposed is going to help any.
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