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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202200 Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --xErqwOjL1EbkpHsxnFp8e6LDMCEXafdJ0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="BKC1lpeljoGVTp1Up95Vq5ES5qDiJVPfs" From: =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=c3=a9ment_Pit--Claudel?= To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <56F455D4.7060908@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? References: <56F42269.10400@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: --BKC1lpeljoGVTp1Up95Vq5ES5qDiJVPfs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/24/2016 04:42 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Stefan Monnier writes: >=20 >>> (Stefan, for example, your emails are tagged with "Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5= =2E13) >>> Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)"). Has there been complaints about Gnus >>> doing that? >> >> I never liked it, but admittedly, I never complained about it. >=20 > Well, in emails you also have the From header (etc), so the added > privacy of not having a User-Agent string is pretty slim. Not that slim :) For example, your User-Agent string tells me that you're= using Emacs' master branch instead of emacs-25 ;) > When talking to web servers, things are very different. Indeed, and the spec suggests that we should include an Emacs version num= ber there. Plus, we already include a lot more information when asking pe= ople to send bug reports; the same information, though of course with muc= h less details, would be useful to get a clearer picture of the user base= of a package. 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