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 @section Reporting Bugs
 
 Any problems with the installation should be reported to
-@email{bug-guile@@gnu.org}.  Please note that you must be subscribed to
-this list first, in order to successfully send a report to it.
+@email{bug-guile@@gnu.org}.
 
 Whenever you have found a bug in Guile you are encouraged to report it
 to the Guile developers, so they can fix it.  They may also be able to