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: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:15:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56F42269.10400@gmail.com> <05663DCE-3E5B-41E2-8657-460B2D013B49@lunaryorn.com> <570280D9.6030706@gmail.com> <5703D7BA.4070507@gmail.com> <5704AEAF.8050205@gmail.com> <5706179F.5040809@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1460065486 11404 80.91.229.3 (7 Apr 2016 21:44:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 21:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 07 23:44:37 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 1aoHj9-0002RU-Eo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:44:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52104 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoHj8-0002qg-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46549) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoHHQ-0000Vz-Kt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:15:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoHHP-0001wd-SK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aoHHO-0001w4-EW; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aoHHN-0004Xa-Rm; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:15:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <5706179F.5040809@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9?= =?utf-8?Q?ment?= Pit--Claudel on Thu, 7 Apr 2016 09:17:35 +0100) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202807 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. ]]] > Sorry if this didn't sound constructive. You wrote: > > 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. > So I pointed out that IceCat is probably one of the most easily > identifiable browsers out there. That was changing the subject. If IceCat's necessary features provide a possible way to identify it, that is regretable, but it is a side issue. Emacs browsers should send user-agent strings that disguise them as commonly used browsers. -- 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.