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Re: Reporting GCC bugs
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Torbjorn Granlund <tg@gmplib.org> wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
>
> I'm certainly sorry to hear that you will not be reporting bugs for
> GCC. However, we have had spam in bugzilla in the past, and it's a
> real pain to deal with. It's even led us to being added to e-mail
> blacklists, and cleaning that up was hours of my life that I will
> never get back. Requiring an account with a valid e-mail address is
> an unfortunate necessity on the current Internet, at least for a
> popular and well-known site like gcc.gnu.org. I wish it were not so,
> but the fault is not with the GCC project; it is with the spammers.
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> I had no idea this was due to spamming problems.
>
> I think the explanation you provide really should be on the page I
> indicated.
I added a note to http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/ .
Ian