From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alastair Houghton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [OT] Whether those with gnu.org addresses in any way represent FSF Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:33:30 +0100 Message-ID: <4B81F56F-5E38-4CC4-B925-A5D95379EB90@alastairs-place.net> References: <2E2BAEFF-FEAD-4616-87CD-3B77D2734256@alastairs-place.net> <19321565-3F93-4299-996F-8A2081C462AF@alastairs-place.net> <85bqsyfrhb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853beaf0c4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <6C1D0482-9501-47E5-A79E-C40EF7B349A8@alastairs-place.net> <87mzcfq5t0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150288474 9838 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2006 12:34:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 14:34:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqUZN-0005oZ-Tu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:34:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqUZN-0006HC-5X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqUZ2-0006Ej-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqUZ0-0006DB-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:33:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqUZ0-0006Cy-Fz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.159.14.214] (helo=ptb-relay03.plus.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqUi8-0002JE-W6; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.162.110.205] (helo=[10.0.1.5]) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1FqUYs-0007Cn-Qd; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:33:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87mzcfq5t0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Original-To: Miles Bader X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) 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:55888 Archived-At: On 14 Jun 2006, at 13:29, Miles Bader wrote: > Alastair Houghton writes: >>> Rather maybe think of it like a FOO.edu address. >> >> Actually, that's *exactly* how I think of it. The behaviour of a >> student with a FOO.edu address reflects on the institution of which >> they are a part, and it's in that sense that people with gnu.org >> addresses represent the FSF. > > "Reflects on", sure, but rather weakly. Nobody's going to lose much > sleep if a Harvard student flames somebody on a mailing list > somewhere, > and it won't have much effect on Harvard's reputation, because it's > generally understood that there are lots of silly people at > universities, > and that no attempt is made to control their behavior. OK, but there aren't lots of silly people with gnu.org addresses. Very few, if any, I suspect. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://www.alastairs-place.net