Comment 5 for bug 48863

I've created a separate bug for David's suggestion. This is really a huge problem in Ubuntu (and for that matter, will become a huge problem for any large project), especially for beta testers. I would go so far as to say that it is damaging the overall quality of the distro by forcing legitimate subscribers out of the bug reporting and patching process when they are barraged by sometimes hundreds of e-mails from users who are nontechnical, have no interest in participating in the bug reporting process, and for whatever reason lack the intelligence to unsubscribe themselves. I, personally, have had this happen to bugs of interest to me on several occasions.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/357340 .