Pleased to see people here wishing to help with gawk!

[Bob Proulx]

Hello to all of those who are coming from the bug-gawk mailing list
who have subscribed here to help out people with questions about GNU
gawk!  It's heart warming to see the community pull together to help
each other. :-)

This is a new mailing list therefore I thought I would mention some of
the general anti-abuse processes that happen behind the scenes.

Initially all new postings get held for moderation on the initial
contact.  That's standard operating procedure for most of the GNU
mailing lists at this time.  Then upon human review they are approved
and subsequent postings are not held for moderation and conversations
can continue at the speed of Mailman.  Therefore for all initial
postings please expect some moderation delay.  However there is a team
of people (we call them the "listhelpers") so this is usually attended
to quickly and without undue delay or hardship.  It's one of the ways
we keep the mailing lists usable without too much spam.

This mailing list is publicly archive.  Postings will appear in the
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Bob

Speaking for the team as a volunteer mailing list helper.