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:0
* ^List-Id: .*<.*.gcc.gnu.org>$
INLIST.gcc
To filter duplicate messages due to cross-posts to multiple lists, you can use the following recipe (Use at your own risk!):
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
* ^List-Id: .*<.*.gcc.gnu.org>$
| formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
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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.
See also information about dealing with spam on the lists.
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