It's the name of a popular SSH and Telnet client. Any other meaning is in the eye of the beholder. It's been rumoured that ‘PuTTY’ is the antonym of ‘getty’, or that it's the stuff that makes your Windows useful, or that it's a kind of plutonium Teletype. We couldn't possibly comment on such allegations.
A.10.4 How do I pronounce ‘PuTTY’?
Exactly like the English word ‘putty’, which we pronounce /ˈp ʌ ti/.
Appendix B: Feedback and bug reporting
This is a guide to providing feedback to the PuTTY development team. It is provided as both a web page on the PuTTY site, and an appendix in the PuTTY manual.
Section B.1
gives some general guidelines for sending any kind of e-mail to the development team. Following sections give more
specific guidelines for particular types of e-mail, such as bug reports and feature requests.
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B.1 General guidelines
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B.1.1 Sending large attachments
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B.1.2 Other places to ask for help
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B.2 Reporting bugs
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B.3 Requesting extra features
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B.4 Requesting features that have already been requested
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B.5 Support requests
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B.6 Web server administration
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B.7 Asking permission for things
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B.8 Mirroring the PuTTY web site
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B.9 Praise and compliments
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B.10 E-mail address
B.1 General guidelines
The PuTTY development team gets a lot of mail. If you can possibly solve your own problem by reading the manual, reading the FAQ, reading the web site, asking a fellow user, perhaps posting to a newsgroup (see
section B.1.2
), or some other means, then it
would make our lives much easier.
We get so much e-mail that we literally do not have time to answer it all. We regret this, but there's nothing we can do about it. So if you can possibly avoid sending mail to the PuTTY team, we recommend you do so. In particular, support requests (
section B.5
)
are probably better sent to newsgroups, or passed to a local expert if possible.
The PuTTY contact email address is a private mailing list containing four or five core developers. Don't be put off by it being a mailing list: if you need to send confidential data as part of a bug report, you can trust the people on the list to respect that confidence. Also, the archives aren't publicly available, so you shouldn't be letting yourself in for any spam by sending us mail.
Please use a meaningful subject line on your message. We get a lot of mail, and it's hard to find the message we're looking for if they all have subject lines like ‘PuTTY bug’.
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B.1.1 Sending large attachments
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B.1.2 Other places to ask for help
B.1.1 Sending large attachments
Since the PuTTY contact address is a mailing list, e-mails larger than 40Kb will be held for inspection by the list administrator, and will not be allowed through unless they really appear to be worth their large size.
If you are considering sending any kind of large data file to the PuTTY team, it's almost always a bad idea, or at the very least it would be better to ask us first whether we actually need the file. Alternatively, you could put the file on a web site and just send us the URL; that way, we don't have to download it unless we decide we actually need it, and only one of us needs to download it instead of it being automatically copied to all the developers.