On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Joe Buck <joe.b...@synopsys.com> wrote: > > GCC uses are the ones developed in the egcs days. Remember the old > > days when the location of the development tree and the snapshots was > > a secret, and people were threatened with banning if they let it out?
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:52:25PM -0700, NightStrike wrote: > Are you serious? Why would it be handled that way? Yes, I'm serious; it was a hidden directory on vger.rutgers.edu, and the README file in the directory contained the banning threat, though as far as I know the threat was never actually carried out. As for why, I don't know. Maybe Kenner has some idea.