tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (11/29/89)
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 89 00:23:45 EDT From: rms@ai.mit.edu The purpose of bug-gcc is to transfer bug reports to the people who maintain GCC. In order to be useful for this purpose, a bug report must contain a COMPLETE test case. It is usually impossible to construct a usable test case from a few "relevant lines", and the whole rest of the function is probably relevant anyway. People who aren't GCC maintainers are welcome to read the list. But they shouldn't forget that the list doesn't exist for their sake. If they don't receiving the contents of the list, then they should get off it. They should not ask the users to send incomplete bug reports for their sake. I would like to point out that USENET sites that don't wish to receive the gnu.all.bugs groups can ask their feeds to add this string to their /usr/lib/news/sys line after the string "gnu,": "!gnu.all.bugs," It be polite to let downstream feeds that are only feed by your site know you are doing this. I don't personally advise this action. thanx -len
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (11/29/89)
(come on Len, we spent a good week debating this only about 21 months ago! :-)
In article <8911290249.AA13784@wheat-chex> tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
...don't wish to receive the gnu.all.bugs groups can ask their
feeds to add this string to their /usr/lib/news/sys line after the
string "gnu,":
"!gnu.all.bugs,"
They're "gnu.all.bug", not "gnu.all.bugs" - note the expectation of
only singularly interesting bugs :-) The names correspond to the
pre-existant mailing lists (e.g. bug-gcc) rather than to the Usenet
newsgroup naming conventions (e.g. comp.bugs.2bsd).