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Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? |
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Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:01:08 -0400 |
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> ERC exposes emacs' version number in quit messages already:
> "(Quit: ERC (IRC client for Emacs 25.0.50.3))"
> So I don't see why there should be an exception for url.
IRC and web browsing are different activities and raise different
issues regarding surveillance. There is no reason to insist a priori
on treating them alike.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, (continued)
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/04/04
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Richard Stallman, 2016/04/05
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/04/05
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/04/05
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Richard Stallman, 2016/04/05
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/04/06
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Richard Stallman, 2016/04/06
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/04/07
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Richard Stallman, 2016/04/07
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?, Vibhav Pant, 2016/04/10
- Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?,
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