Comment 11 for bug 330550

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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) wrote : Re: [Bug 330550] Re: Affects Me Too should also subscribe

2009/2/18 Christian Reis <email address hidden>:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:08:23PM -0000, Karl Fogel wrote:
>> +1 on just doing it. In the rare cases where a user wants to say "this
>> affects me" but doesn't want to be subscribed, they can still
>> unsubscribe manually (which would not change the "affects me" status).
>
> I think we need to be careful about how much spam the person might
> actually be buying into if we did this.

We could include a link to unsubscribing in a message that appears
after clicking me too.

> Note that there's a reasonable middle ground that is unfortunately a bit
> of a special case: only sending notifications to users if the bug gets
> fixed or marked incomplete.

I think that this will complicate the notification system and make it
less usable. Users should be able to predict what emails they're going
to get.