From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: add-change-log-entry and add-log-mailing-address Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 07:37:17 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87of3c8v2q.fsf@jidanni.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050179900 19602 80.91.224.249 (12 Apr 2003 20:38:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 12 22:38:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194RlT-000562-00 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 22:38:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194Rko-0003MY-00 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 194Rkd-0003ET-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:37:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 194RkG-0002ea-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from tx.symonds.net ([64.246.28.87]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194Rjx-0001uP-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from tc218-187-78-244.2-4.pl.apol.com.tw ([218.187.78.244] helo=jidanni.org) by tx.symonds.net with asmtp (Exim 4.04) id 194Rjv-0006Bw-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from jidanni by jidanni.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 194857-00011g-00 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 07:37:17 +0800 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:47:50 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4768 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4768 Say, why are you guys still emphasizing fuddy duddy mail addresses when like for 10 years now we can go to the person's web page, which of course will mention his mail address. I have done (setq add-log-mailing-address "http://jidanni.org/") in the meantime. Therefore make a new variable to contain the person's website, and use it if set, instead. Also maybe angle brackets are an issue. Mention it in Info and docstring. I mean say we encounter a developer's name like "Bdale Garbee", and we are overwhelmed with curiosity about how this "Bdale" arose, and if he was the famous boy named after a golden retriever, Barksdale? Well, do you suppose we want to risk asking this to his face, or instead say, saunter around his web page looking for the answer?