From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to poll the users Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:19:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mu78huhx.fsf_-_@yahoo.com> <87k12bdgx7.fsf@yahoo.com> <87a736wyed.fsf@yahoo.com> <2F7AD0CB-FF83-4244-BD77-7E0460A77762@icloud.com> <87wo6a7abj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o8rlbnic.fsf@yahoo.com> <45098d13-2770-4a19-6f82-b22276eb51c8@yandex.ru> <877dy91mb0.fsf@yahoo.com> <0ce06d95-0593-bc55-983f-6b6601503a1a@yandex.ru> <38f07534-f9db-64eb-5256-e73bcebafef4@yandex.ru> <8e4a5b46-f9a6-400e-f573-f73b419e229f@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="106050"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, seb@k-7.ch, pcr910303@icloud.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 27 04:20:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jStNl-000RV4-SC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:20:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50514 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jStNk-0002vQ-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:20:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60458) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jStN2-0002C8-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54511) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jStN1-0003OU-JE; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jStN0-0004lq-MY; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:19:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 26 Apr 2020 16:23:05 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247876 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. ]]] > Like Drew described, StackOverflow discourage polls and will likely > close them as non-constructive. It's a Q&A website, and they don't want > Q that can elicit an unbounded number of A's. Would they object to posting a reference to a page with a poll that asks people to answer by email? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)