There is a new mailing list: coreut...@gnu.org We will soon hook up a debbugs-based bug tracker to the existing, bug-coreutils list, and it will create a new ticket for each seemingly-new thread.
We will then prefer to keep usage questions and general discussion on the new list. Otherwise, we'll have to "close" each of those non-bugs. No big deal if people forget -- I'm sure it will take a while for the word to get out. And finger-retraining takes time, too. Let's start with this policy: is if it might be a bug, send it to bug-coreut...@gnu.org. Otherwise, use the new list: coreut...@gnu.org.