diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 85aa991f3..5f0e7a9a6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ Guile NEWS --- history of user-visible changes.
 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
-Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.  Note that you
-must be subscribed to this list first, in order to successfully send a
-report to it.
+Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
 
 
 Changes in 1.9.0:
diff --git a/README b/README
index 514ac2260..3af511b38 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -16,9 +16,7 @@ This has been the case since the 1.3.* series.
 
 The next stable release will likely be version 1.10.0.
 
-Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.  Note that you must be
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-to it.
+Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
 
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