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*>From plate@infotek.dk Sat Oct 31 06:47:08 1992
*>Subject: Re: more details on possible bug
*>To: lane@spot.colorado.edu (JimLane)
*>
*>JimLane
*>
*>Please do not send bug reports of that size to thousands of
*>people. It's nothing more that stupid to do so.

  John Plate

  I had no idea that the bug report was going to 
  "thousands of people".  There was nothing in the
  man page that indicated it went any further than
  gcc-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu.   I now assume this is
  a large mail alias?

  If GNU seriously wants to solicit bug reports,
  some better guidelines/information should be 
  provided in the gcc man page or at least a pointer
  to the information. 

  This is the man page information I was using:

>  BUGS
>    Report bugs to bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu.  Bugs tend actually to be  fixed
>    if  they  can  be  isolated, so it is in your interest to report them in
>    such a way that they can be easily reproduced.
 
  Of the three direct responses I recieved to my bug
  report, two (this includes yours) were negative in
  nature.  I conmpletely support the goals and 
  accomplishments of the Free Software Foundation, but
  all in all, if it had not been for the
  positive feedback I got from Jeff Law, I would have
  told GNU to "stick their (buggy) compiler where the
  sun don't shine".

                                   JimLane