On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Torbjorn Granlund <tg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I tried to report two gcc bugs today. I read the > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/ page, and then clicked on the link for making > the actual report. I was then--without motivation--requested to create > an "account". > > I am not happy maintaining lots of "accounts" for this and that. Since > there is no motivation whatsoever why an account would be needed, I will > not create one, and will not send in any gcc bug reports for the time > being. 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. Ian
