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: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:26:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56F42269.10400@gmail.com> <05663DCE-3E5B-41E2-8657-460B2D013B49@lunaryorn.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459780010 12264 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2016 14:26:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 14:26:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, swiesner@lunaryorn.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 16:26:42 2016 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 1an5Si-0005bQ-E5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:26:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58957 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an5Sh-0000cv-Ri for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:26:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40622) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an5SU-0000cm-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an5ST-0001jJ-OE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an5SJ-0001gP-1o; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:26:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1an5SI-0007tk-5H; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:26:14 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:29:49 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:202683 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. ]]] I think url should do what IceCat does: send a user-agent string that is widely encountered on the net, to thwart identification of users. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.