I gave up on Usenet a couple of years ago and haven’t really looked back. It’s like sports talk radio—you feel smarter for not having read it.
Please do not try to report bugs in gawk by posting to the
Usenet/Internet newsgroup comp.lang.awk. Although some of the
gawk developers occasionally read this news group, the primary
gawk maintainer no longer does. Thus it’s virtually guaranteed
that he will not see your posting.
If you really don’t care about the previous paragraph and continue to
post bug reports in comp.lang.awk, then understand that you’re
not reporting bugs, you’re just whining.
Similarly, posting bug reports or questions in web forums (such
as Stack Overflow) may get you
an answer, but it won’t be from the gawk maintainers,
who do not spend their time in web forums. The steps described here are
the only officially recognized way for reporting bugs. Really.