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: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:01:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56F42269.10400@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1460314878 29905 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2016 19:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 19:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: clement.pit@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vibhav Pant Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 10 21:01:17 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 1apKbl-00048n-9O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 21:01:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1apKbk-00036i-JW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:01:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41519) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1apKbg-00033v-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1apKbg-0004N2-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43788) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1apKbd-0004MR-FJ; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1apKbc-0008TH-Qs; Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:01:08 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Vibhav Pant on Sun, 10 Apr 2016 10:40:16 +0530) 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:202841 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. ]]] > ERC exposes emacs' version number in quit messages already: > "(Quit: ERC (IRC client for Emacs 25.0.50.3))" > So I don't see why there should be an exception for url. IRC and web browsing are different activities and raise different issues regarding surveillance. There is no reason to insist a priori on treating them alike. -- 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.