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: Never send user email address in HTTP requests Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:51:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8734ybkqf4.fsf@disroot.org> <87sf54q2t8.fsf@posteo.net> <87o7etlzx7.fsf@posteo.net> <83v88xjipo.fsf@gnu.org> <83il4xj9cc.fsf@gnu.org> 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="34656"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, philipk@posteo.net, akib@disroot.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 19 04:52:28 2023 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 1rFR9f-0008pW-Ve for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2023 04:52:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rFR9A-0001Ae-G0; Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:51:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rFR98-0001A2-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:51:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rFR98-0002Vr-8o; Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:51:54 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=FC+/G3IXRfLL5I+/poWzwvdF6VfG2OcB1PU/IDavc5I=; b=Y+lvSWNzLZ7P vAwND2xfv1zPqYsEZ1BLS8s6O4Q/H/+bXJC8/7OKmCc6xmAk390GgB2KLUBEvrlNqxRvmgoNtpWkC 0q9STXghKaZjqkg2oQXWvAPNHBK4f5xyu0yb91tgVhW/wUC74bnLXJHJR88DQD3Jo8TS3tQz+FnL+ V1yM2utvZO35lTpjZ54vRbPb9xhy7PK8wijuKhizczbq0Xqfi5q74VXxK8fU1QbcDZk7U7lPOmzZv 3ZRndZJF+hlIM6Bjp5rA0YbJMqTPVcWRT5oqI0g5YfmPATXbJoSiV5sErX8TGBFvoqFlhNrSHpU6d WAs2MyC58wxIIfoJ8EmPrw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rFR97-0002Ze-Tv; Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:51:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuri Khan on Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:05:00 +0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:313992 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. ]]] > A user agent SHOULD NOT send a From header field > without explicit configuration by the user, If the user sets a user option to request something, that is explicit configuration by the user. In addition, the words "SHOULD NOT" are vehement, but they do not show a reason that could convince us do or not to do something. If we saw a reason -- some trouble that would result, for someone or other -- that could be a reason, but it would depend on what the trouble would be, etc. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)