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“It is also confusing to the user since they will not know who the incident is being reported to.”

Todd C. Millergithub.com ↗

For decades sudo threatened users with a report that, depending on config, never got sent. Whether sudo emails the admin became configurable long ago, so the warning was often a bluff. The fix is three added lines and four deleted. The most famous lie in Unix finally got a commit message admitting it.