As of 2002-09-01, the GNU fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils
packages have been merged into one, called the GNU coreutils.
See http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ for a description.
Here's the FAQ list:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/

For information on the mailing lists associated with the
coreutils package, see these:

  http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce
  http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

mailing list archives are here:

  http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.announce
  http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs (up to the minute)
  http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-coreutils/ (updated every 12 hours)