Re^6: Reporting a bug in Perl is tricky

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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Re^7: Reporting a bug in Perl is tricky by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 20, 2016 at 18:00 UTC
If they don't know email is unreliable, I don't see how the alternative phrasing you proposed is going to help any.	[reply]
Re^8: Reporting a bug in Perl is tricky by soonix (Chancellor) on May 20, 2016 at 20:05 UTC
From my experience in user support: they might not even be aware that email is involved. Could be sent by fax or telepathy :-) Joking aside, if I'm deeply concentrating on some complicated matter, I tend to totally blend out everything else. This (although overly legalese) wording would remind me the system has other parts that matter, too.	[reply]
Re^9: Reporting a bug in Perl is tricky by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 20, 2016 at 21:31 UTC
If "[Se]nd the message to perlbug@perl.org" doesn't suggest an email, I don't know what does. But if the problem is that you think it's not clear that email is being used, the fix would be to change that prompt to "[Se]nd the message by email to perlbug@perl.org"	[reply]