From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:32:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <371dc591-fc65-61b9-3eda-be09a5e653a8@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499729566 7601 195.159.176.226 (10 Jul 2017 23:32:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:32:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ken Manheimer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 11 01:32:42 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUiAR-0001cL-TY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:32:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43449 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUiAX-0001ZT-C9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:32:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUi9w-0001HI-RZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUi9w-0006Bs-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUi9s-00069S-Mv; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:32:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dUi9s-0001Yu-2u; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:32:04 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Ken Manheimer on Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:36:05 -0400) 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:216452 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. ]]] > That's a misleading way to think about it. If every major facility on a > machine was nonchalant about some random once-per-week notification, you > could potentially have several to hundreds per day. There is no reason to worry about an implausible extrapolation of what we are planning. It's not just unlikely, it's mathematically implausible because it assumes the person uses thousands of major facilities. I doubt I use even a hundred. Anyway, it will be easy to turn off these notices if you want to. So the problem is imaginary. In fact, people don't mind notices so much anyway. Some programs offer hints each time they start, and you have to click to make them go away. For instance, Audacity does this. It offers a way to turn them off, but I never bothered to do that. I don't think this issue amounts to a real problem. -- 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.