On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 07:58:30AM -0400, Kyle Amon wrote:
... have dillo automatically email these error messages to webmaster@wwwdomain.com
Ahem, ... Netiquette forbids me to post a frank description of my immediate response to this. My more considered intellectual response is: *NO!* I will *never* use a program that automatically sends unsolicited email. It is morally wrong to do so. My inbox already overflows with auto-posted <unflattering_comparison_to_excreta> from <unflattering_comparison_to_genitalia>s who don't care that I don't want it. I will not join their ranks. I will not use a program that requires me to join their ranks, or even makes it possible. I very much admire the dillo project's commitment to HTML standards and I want to support your efforts. But turning dillo into a spam-generator is unacceptable. *Please* don't do it.
At the very least, along side the W3C and WDG validator links in the Bug Meter, a link/exec to send such an email should be provided.
I'm OK with that. If dillo users *want* to email HTML bug reports to webmasters then dillo should help them. I would probably use that feature myself. But user confirmation *must* be mandatory. If this post is over-the-top then I apologise. But I don't want to hide the fact that I feel strongly about this. Cheers, Jeremy