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.


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