Running the gauntlet to report bugs

From: Kevin S. Van Horn (kevin_vanhorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-27 16:54:02

I suspect that many bugs in the Boost libraries are not getting reported
because the process of reporting bugs is too involved.  If you want to get
reports on all problems users find, you need to make it trivially easy
for busy end-users to report bugs.  Unfortunately, at present you have to
go through a fairly involved process of first getting a user name and
password for Yahoo Groups, subscribing to the boost mailing list, waiting
for a response, and then verifying your information.  It would be better
to have a highly-visible (on the main web page), easy-to-find link to a
web page or email address that anyone could use without having to go
through any registration process.