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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: add-change-log-entry and add-log-mailing-address
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:41:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1953HO-0007z8-00@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87of3c8v2q.fsf@jidanni.org> (message from Dan Jacobson on Sat, 12 Apr 2003 07:37:17 +0800)

   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 can think of several reasons, here are a few:

  1) Not everyone has a web page

  2) Just because you have a web page doesn't mean that the email
     address will be easy to find, if it is there at all.

  3) You might want to send the person who made the change an email
     while being offline (and putting the mail in a queue).  Since the
     address is on an web page you cannot check what the address it,
     thus you cannot write the email.

  4) ChangeLog's are not peronal adds.

In short, if you want to know personal details about someone, use
google.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-14 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-09 19:13 add-change-log-entry and add-log-mailing-address Morten Welinder
2003-04-09 22:25 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-04-10 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-11 23:37   ` Dan Jacobson
2003-04-14  2:36     ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4534.1050287861.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-14  6:01       ` David Kastrup
2003-04-14 20:34         ` Dan Jacobson
2003-04-15  9:05           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2003-04-16  3:12             ` Dan Jacobson
     [not found]         ` <mailman.4613.1050363127.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-15 15:08           ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-04-14 12:41     ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]

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