Getting along in the Python community

Getting along in the Python community

It then depends on the quality of your link - if it's a good link with lots of help, then the fact that it's a canned response is a non-issue. If the link basically says (politely or otherwise) "go away, I don't care about you", then it's going to upset people.

E.g. linking people whose e-mail matches your "bug report" filter to something like Mercurial's BugTracker wiki page isn't offensive - there's a lot of information in there on how to get attention, and how to get helpful responses.