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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
	46472@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46472: Make lisp/mail/uce.el obsolete
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:07:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h74j8mm4.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1br1ku3eji.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:27:29 -0500")

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Replying to spam is at best pointless, but most likely actively harmful.
> Emacs having a package to help you reply to spam is at best pointless,
> but most likely actively harmful.
>
> This is one of the many things that makes Emacs look antiquated.
> I find the refusal to even obsolete such things demotivating for working
> on Emacs. So IMO the cost for keeping such things around is non-zero.

I think, on reflection, that this is a good argument.  And I agree with
everybody's that said that you should never use uce.el, so I've now
moved it to obsolete.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-17 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-12 21:58 bug#46472: Make lisp/mail/uce.el obsolete Stefan Kangas
2021-02-13  7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13 12:25   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-13 14:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 19:27       ` Glenn Morris
2021-03-04 21:12         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-06 17:14           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-06 17:25             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-17 13:07         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-10-12  4:33       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-12 13:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-12 16:12           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-12 16:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-12 17:29               ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-12 18:50                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-14 20:45                   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-15  6:12                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-15  8:50                       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-15 10:46                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-16 12:48                           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-16 12:50                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-17 23:56                               ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-16 12:32                       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-03 21:22   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-04  3:39     ` Eli Zaretskii

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