Shorten some wording. Avoid direct references to Bugzilla and CVS. Move a comment to where it belongs (the subscription form).
Installed. Gerald Index: lists.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/lists.html,v retrieving revision 1.104 diff -u -3 -p -r1.104 lists.html --- lists.html 13 Sep 2009 22:46:55 -0000 1.104 +++ lists.html 25 Aug 2013 21:37:58 -0000 @@ -45,9 +45,8 @@ before <a href="#subscribe">subscribing< covered by other mailing lists is suitable for discussion here.</p> <p>Recruiting postings, including recruiting for GCC or other - free software jobs, are not permitted on this list, or on any of the - other GCC mailing lists. If you are interested in hiring a GCC - developer, please visit the + free software jobs, are not permitted on any of our mailing lists. + If you are interested in hiring a GCC developer, please visit the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/";>FSF jobs page</a>.</p> <p>All major decisions and changes, like abandoning ports or front ends, @@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ before <a href="#subscribe">subscribing< development process.</p></li> <li><b><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/";>gcc-bugs</a></b> - is a relatively high volume list with mails from our Bugzilla + is a relatively high volume list with mails from our bug-tracking system.</li> <li><b><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/";>gcc-patches</a></b> @@ -112,7 +111,7 @@ before <a href="#subscribe">subscribing< <li><b><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs-wwwdocs/";>gcc-cvs-wwwdocs</a></b> is a read-only, relatively low volume list which tracks checkins to - the GCC webpages CVS repository.</li> + the GCC webpages repository.</li> <li><b><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gccadmin/";>gccadmin</a></b> is a read-only moderate volume list where output from @@ -183,6 +182,10 @@ it's assumed that no-one on these lists <p>You will be able to subscribe or unsubscribe from any of the GCC mailing lists via this form:</p> +<!-- NOTE: The server-side included form does not show up at mirrors, + so refer to it by an explicit hostname to avoid confusion. +--> + <blockquote> <form method="get" action="http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/ml-request";> <p>Mailing list: @@ -293,18 +296,11 @@ give yourself posting privileges just fo <p>To complicate the harvesting of e-mail addresses from the web archives of the GCC mailing lists, some simple transformations are done on the -e-mail addresses. It isn't perfect, but short of destructively modifying -addresses or omitting addresses altogether, there isn't a whole lot we -can do right now.</p> +e-mail addresses.</p> <p>See also <a href="spam.html">information about dealing with spam on the lists</a>.</p> -<!-- - NOTE: The server-side included form does not show up at mirrors, so refer - to it by an explicit hostname to avoid confusion. ---> - <hr /> <p>This search will allow you to search the contents gcc.gnu.org.</p>
