Future of gccbug

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

> We can certainly tell people that Bugzilla is preferred, but we can't cut
> off ways other than Bugzilla to file bugs.  There are a lot of folks
> (particularly in the 3rd world) who have email access but no or limited
> web access.

Frankly, if people use gccbug, then this might work, but there is no way we 
can promise that we read (and remember) messages on a mailing list. RMS might 
want to have it this way, but it's just not going to work: things have to be 
recorded in a permanent place where you can search for it (including 
searching for unconfirmed bugs if I have an hour at the end of the week).

I wrote the section in the manual that sending mail to the mailing is 
deprecated and I am not about to change my mind about it -- our volume of new 
bugs is just too high to ever think about keeping up with random messages and 
putting them into the database.

W.

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