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From: tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Please send complete bug reports:
	 USENET sites have the choice to not get the gnu bugs newsgroups
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Date: 29 Nov 89 02:49:27 GMT
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   Date: Sun, 29 Oct 89 00:23:45 EDT
   From: rms@ai.mit.edu

   The purpose of bug-gcc is to transfer bug reports to the people who
   maintain GCC.  In order to be useful for this purpose, a bug report
   must contain a COMPLETE test case.  It is usually impossible to
   construct a usable test case from a few "relevant lines", and the
   whole rest of the function is probably relevant anyway.

   People who aren't GCC maintainers are welcome to read the list.  But
   they shouldn't forget that the list doesn't exist for their sake.  If
   they don't receiving the contents of the list, then they should get
   off it.  They should not ask the users to send incomplete bug reports
   for their sake.

I would like to point out that USENET sites that don't wish to receive
the gnu.all.bugs groups can ask their feeds to add this string to
their /usr/lib/news/sys line after the string "gnu,":
	"!gnu.all.bugs,"

It be polite to let downstream feeds that are only feed by your site
know you are doing this.

I don't personally advise this action.

thanx -len