From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL settings [was: Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server] Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:42:35 +0200 Message-ID: <42F54AEB.6000407@student.lu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123372643 1844 80.91.229.2 (6 Aug 2005 23:57:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 23:57:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org, bob@rattlesnake.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 07 01:57:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1YWm-0004E6-LA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:56:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1YZi-0006iy-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E1YYy-0006Y6-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:58:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E1YYm-0006RO-TL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:58:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1YYm-0006Ng-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E1YWg-0006ei-IG; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:56:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.202.239) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B93717006F1DFF; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 01:42:38 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41633 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41633 Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: >probably a great many injustices occur when the decision making process >focuses purely on the technical or purely on the political. wherever >there is choice, there is also beauty and ugliness, slack and coercion, >understanding and misunderstanding. all these can be useful, although >perhaps only obliquely and only over time. > >i am a sip of grappa from weeping over all this, so i'll stop now... > > It is absolutely not wrong to talk politics. It is absolutely not wrong to talk technical things. But mixing the arguments must be done very carefully since it easy to mix logic and feeling when it you feel threatened. (Of course we have better concentrate most of the times on the technical issues here. But personally I feel it is good to know you are thinking in other dimensions too.)