Re: [patch] README: remove references to deleted remote-*.c

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:
 > mec> By the way, what happens to bugs reported to the mailing lists?
 > mec> Is anyone entering them into Gnats?
 > 
 > andrew> They dried up!  The power of documentation!
 > 
 > I still see legitimate bug reports in bug-gdb@gnu.org.
 > 
 >   http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gdb/2003-01/index.html
 >     http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gdb/2003-01/msg00004.html
 >     http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gdb/2003-01/msg00009.html
 >     http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gdb/2003-01/msg00010.html
 >     http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gdb/2003-01/msg00008.html
 > 
 > These bug reports aren't going in to Gnats.  So they get whatever
 > service they get on the spot, and then we forget about them.
 > 
 > I still see plenty of spam in bug-gdb@gnu.org as well.

I thgought that at some point we created a new sources.redhat.com list
that recived the bug-gdb mail and filtered all the spam out. I don't
remember the name of the list, and I don't think I am subsrcibed to it
anymore, apparently.

I think the FSF policy is (was?) to not block spam.

Elena

 > 
 > I wrote to bug-gdb-owner on 2002-12-29 offering to administer the list.
 > It's been more than a week and I've gotten nothing in return: no
 > acknowledgement, no nothing.
 > 
 > I would like gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com to subscribe to
 > bug-gdb@gnu.org, so that bug reports from bug-gdb become part of
 > our official bug database.
 > 
 > I would like to remove all the spam from the bug-gdb@gnu.org.
 > 
 > Andrew and everybody, what are your thoughts?
 > 
 > Michael C