From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@redhat.com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
Cc: overseers@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org: mailing list or help address for gcc@? 
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:00:00 -0000
Message-ID: <11087.977093835@upchuck>
References: <or66kiqthu.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00376.html
Message-ID: <20001217220000.JBMdiT6frrIbFOUVmnmDjlPavFqGW62bRAAHlSoovoo@z>

  In message < or66kiqthu.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br >you write:
  > Quite often, people who post inappropriate messages to gcc@gcc.gnu.org
  > get a reply from ezmlm whose From: header is gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org,
  > since all (?) mailing lists have a -help address.  It turns out that
  > gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org is another mailing list, that gets all the
  > resulting traffic?
  > 
  > Is there anyway to modify the -help address of the gcc@ mailing list,
  > so that this kind of mistake doesn't happen any more?
Not that I'm aware of.

The easiest thing would to be to kill the gcc-help list completely.
Unfortunately, RMS decreed that we must continue to support gcc-help
back when the EGCS & GCC projects merged.

jeff