From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 06:11:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87k31mdbhe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx0qiv45.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9wqd3i5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fvc8kdsp.fsf@gnu.org> <6e11cd85-09a0-4b7a-baa2-0c810bdebbce@default> <871tnsg0w7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834msoqrsg.fsf@gnu.org> <87k31ki3tc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <21657.38692.813089.642641@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx0j4tqo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419592293 17494 80.91.229.3 (26 Dec 2014 11:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 11:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, adatgyujto@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 26 12:11:28 2014 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 1Y4Snn-0002Ws-IR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:11:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53007 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4Snm-0001KN-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 06:11:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4Snj-0001KH-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 06:11:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4Sni-0002O1-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 06:11:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4Sni-0002Nx-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 06:11:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y4Snh-0004wR-K8; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 06:11:21 -0500 In-reply-to: <87tx0j4tqo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:180681 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > It won't be so hard, because there won't be so many entries. > That's why it's already done, and nobody has found anything missing > after 40 years of collecting entries, right? Please avoid sarcasm. It communicates hostility but no pertinent substance. > Unfortunately, wrong. > People find missing entries every day (and rarely report them; they > just use Google instead). Not cogent. > You can, but they'll be of relatively low quality for the purpose > because the kind of folks who especially need more indexing are those > least attached to the Emacs project (on average). These are just the sort of people for whom we would like to improve the index, so the "quality" of a suggestion means its usefulness to them. You are not being constructive, just spreading negativity. Please take it away from here. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.