Journal FortKnox's Journal: Slashdot Unintentionally Spams Users 12
Slashdot has accidentally sent some of its messaging through email creating unintentional spam into some users inboxes. It looks like it may have been an overnight glitch that was quickly fixed, but multiple people have claimed to have the same issue. Perhaps its time that the slashcrew creates automated regression testing and other cost-effective testing ideas into their process. Only stable releases should get pushed into the 'production' environment.
Yes, I did submit this. Yes, I assume it will be rejected.
Update: It was rejected by the time I wrote this JE.
Lets fight back. Make them talk about it! Put this in your sig:
<BR>--<BR>Did you get <A HREF="/~FortKnox/journal/23968">messages (with ads) in your email from slashdot</A> (aka spam)?
Yes, I did submit this. Yes, I assume it will be rejected.
Update: It was rejected by the time I wrote this JE.
Lets fight back. Make them talk about it! Put this in your sig:
<BR>--<BR>Did you get <A HREF="/~FortKnox/journal/23968">messages (with ads) in your email from slashdot</A> (aka spam)?
Nothing like avoiding obvious questions (Score:2)
What an interesting choice to ignore questions and try to quickly fix something in the hope users will quickly forget such a failure. Nice. This is borderline managerial incompotence.
ads in mails... (Score:1)
Of course it was rejected (Score:2)
Seriously, the editors are not neutral, nor are they very open-minded. They all have distinct personalities and individual interests that translate into an (unintentional for the most part) agenda.
None of the editors will step up and post a story that points out a mistake about the company that sends them a bi-weekly check. Of course they have absolutely no problem posting stories slamming the evil empire (i.e. Micorsoft) or praising the good and holy kingdom of Linux.
Re:Of course it was rejected (Score:2)
If you don't do that, you get conspiracy theories and pissed off readers. It isn't a matter of making themselves look bad as much as telling everyone it was fixed.
Re:Of course it was rejected (Score:2)
I understand now why not to post that story. Oh well, I over-reacted... again.
Not A Bug...It's A Feature (Score:1)
Speaking of regression testing, is there an automated testing framework for Perl/CGI apps? We've got something here at work written in Perl and uses the same test-in-production model that
Re:Not A Bug...It's A Feature (Score:2)
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Re:Not A Bug...It's A Feature (Score:1)
A combination of WWW::Mechanize [cpan.org] and Test::More [cpan.org] should do the trick.