From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:43:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> <48e632cab427c838b1cc20a190f4959d@condition-alpha.com> <91bb3e347d5caed9487a2cd8e6d0db04@condition-alpha.com> <4deb019b-8034-4f18-9bd6-98424a0f09ee@default> <916af7e9-961b-44e5-ab11-0f128f52a8fe@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2072"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 27 04:45:51 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 1kMMhD-0000SA-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:45:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37082 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMhC-0003lu-AE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMew-0001Uf-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44827) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMew-0005Cw-LI; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kMMet-0001rx-5g; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:43:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <916af7e9-961b-44e5-ab11-0f128f52a8fe@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:29:14 -0700 (PDT)) 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:256507 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. ]]] > > > Should we really conflate the set of Emacs > > > users with "registered repository users"? > > > > I don't follow you. You seem to be criticizing > > something but I don't know what. > (A question is criticism now?) That question is a criticism because it uses the word "conflate". That word asserts that something is a mistake. I did not know know what it was that allegedly is a mistake. But you explained: it was this: The number of registered repository users who have clicked on "add to favourites" for the package in question. > I questioned whether "registered repository users" > is a good proxy for Emacs users. No, you suggested I was "conflating" things, and that is always unkind. As for whether it is a good proxy, I don't know and I said nothing about that. -- 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)