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: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:12:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <835z7vjrg3.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuvegkmo.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9ftf6n9.fsf@gnu.org> <835z7qfp6h.fsf@gnu.org> <20201004100719.GR32715@protected.rcdrun.com> <83tuvae00i.fsf@gnu.org> <20201004135440.GA15516@protected.rcdrun.com> 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="37673"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, eduardoochs@gmail.com, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org, jamtlu@gmail.com To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 05:14:16 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 1kPGx6-0009iV-HS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 05:14:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54446 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPGx5-000429-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:14:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52402) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPGvp-00030J-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:12:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPGvo-0000Q8-Fh; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kPGvn-0000Wg-AG; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:12:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201004135440.GA15516@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 4 Oct 2020 16:54:40 +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:257063 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. ]]] > I am saying that it is not optimum for Emacs and accessibility of > users to assume that users will be able to have those network > connections. I agree with this point. However, I have another point, in the same area but different: accessing local resources should not go through running a local internet server by default. Here are reasons: * It is a kludge. * Accessing a local resource through a generic interface will often limit what can be done with it. * Having an internet server running will make people have to worry, "Can anyone else get at this server?" Even if the answer is "No, that is blocked by some of the settings," it is still a worry. -- 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)