From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like? Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 22:33:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87d21wi9y4.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <876181agc6.fsf@mbork.pl> <87siatskuz.fsf@mbork.pl> <87egmciegk.fsf@mbork.pl> <20150519200610.GA6052@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432068229 28735 80.91.229.3 (19 May 2015 20:43:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 20:43:49 +0000 (UTC) To: Richard Stallman , vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com, yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 19 22:43:40 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YuoMW-0004bT-85 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 May 2015 22:43:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuoDN-0008WT-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 May 2015 16:34:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuoDK-0008WK-Q7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2015 16:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuoDF-0006LF-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2015 16:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:56066) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuoDF-0006GN-4y; Tue, 19 May 2015 16:34:05 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4A04F607F; Tue, 19 May 2015 22:33:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hKNaVcdgKRay; Tue, 19 May 2015 22:33:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.146]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE5514F607E; Tue, 19 May 2015 22:33:44 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <20150519200610.GA6052@acm.fritz.box> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:186631 Archived-At: On 2015-05-19, at 22:06, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Richard. > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 03:44:27PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: >> > > Please do not recommend nonfree manuals on this list. > >> > Did I? > >> Not yet any specific nonfree manuals, but it sounded like >> you _might_ do so; thus, I figured it was good to state the rule. >> If you weren't going to do this, that's good. > > May I suggest the following wording for future occurrences of this > situation: "Please be careful to avoid recommending nonfree manuals on > this list.". This avoids the imputation that the sin has already been > committed. I second that. While I strongly disagree with that policy (as I have written a few times), I do understand that it's not me who sets the rules on this list, so indeed I was not going to mention any book by name. (Though the borderline between "recommending" and "expressing opinion" can be of course rather vague.) >> -- >> Dr Richard Stallman Regards, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University