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From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Cc: "Matthew J. Waller" <mwaller@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
	<gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [GCC] removal from web archive of mailing list??? please?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0210252200130.6022-100000@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yl4rbk1tiu.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Nowhere does it say #anything you send to these addresses will be
>> published automatically, verbatim, you should consider the consequences
>> first#
> I think it's a good point that the page footer doesn't note that
> gcc@gcc.gnu.org is a mailing list.  Apart from the spam and archive
> issues, an address that turns out to be a mailing list can be surprising
> for various other reasons.

That's a good point indeed.

> None of that is really anyone's fault per se, but a small warning that
> gcc@gcc.gnu.org is a mailing list wouldn't seem out of place to me.

Fully agreed, and implemented thusly:

  <p>This file is <get-var env::PREPROCESS_FILE>.</p>

(Please note that it may take about 12 hours until gcc.gnu.org and
www.gnu.org have been updated.)

Gerald

Index: style.mhtml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/style.mhtml,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -3 -p -r1.28 style.mhtml
--- style.mhtml	22 Jun 2002 10:09:25 -0000	1.28
+++ style.mhtml	25 Oct 2002 19:59:44 -0000
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ to contact</a> the FSF.</p>
 <p>These pages are maintained by
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html">The GCC team</a>.</p>

-<address>Please send comments on these web pages and GCC to
-<a href="mailto:gcc@gnu.org">gcc@gnu.org</a> or
+<address>Please send comments on these web pages and GCC to our public
+mailing list at <a href="mailto:gcc@gnu.org">gcc@gnu.org</a> or
 <a href="mailto:gcc@gcc.gnu.org">gcc@gcc.gnu.org</a>,
 send other questions to <a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org">gnu@gnu.org</a>.
 </address>

      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-25 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-16  5:01 Matthew J. Waller
2002-10-16 15:32 ` [GCC] " Trevor Jenkins
2002-10-17  7:55   ` Paul Koning
2002-10-17  9:17     ` Matthew J. Waller
2002-10-17 10:23       ` kwall
2002-10-17 11:39     ` Matthew J. Waller
2002-10-18  4:22       ` Russ Allbery
2002-10-25 17:21         ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]

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