On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Torbjorn Granlund <tg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 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. > > Thanks for the reply! > > I had no idea this was due to spamming problems. > > I think the explanation you provide really should be on the page I > indicated. I added a note to http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/ . Ian
