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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: noloader@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the Emacs "nonportable dumper" catastrophe?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 04:16:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1i8gkx-0004zl-QP@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-8CMygfSRqBv_kTJ_20ac+JCKE+BvgFHKLuKQXFU-mAxw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Mon, 9 Sep 2019 23:06:48 -0400)

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
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  > The author of the comment prefixed it with "<troll>", so I guess they
  > might actually agree with you.

Are you talking about a group of people, or using a plural pronoun for
one person?  That is always a confusing practice, so I wish people
would avoid it.  See
https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html.



-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)





  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-13  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-10  1:44 What is the Emacs "nonportable dumper" catastrophe? Jeffrey Walton
2019-09-10  2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-10  3:06   ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-13  8:16     ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-09-13 12:54       ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-14  5:33         ` Richard Stallman

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