From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk patch version 3, part 1 Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:31:53 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200212310414.gBV4Et0U014643@stubby.bodenonline.com> <5x3cobimei.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041564797 12191 80.91.224.249 (3 Jan 2003 03:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 03:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18UIaB-0003AO-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 04:33:15 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18UIcc-0003KS-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 04:35:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UIZA-0001u4-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:32:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UIYu-0001tQ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:31:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UIYs-0001sf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:31:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UIYr-0001s5-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:31:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18UIYr-00067Q-00; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:31:53 -0500 Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-reply-to: <5x3cobimei.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10426 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10426 I agree that simply refering to a web site isn't good, but IMO it should be perfectly ok to refer to a specific document on the web (giving its complete URL.) Whether the URL is to the precise page or the front page isn't the issue. Neither one is the right thing to do here. Either way, the reference is to a location not on the user's own machine. We should always refer to a documentation file that is (or could/should be) on the user's *own machine*.