Re: [GCC] removal from web archive of mailing list??? please?

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

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
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/style.mhtml,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -3 -p -r1.28 style.mhtml
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@@ -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>