From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updating etc/DISTRIB Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:12:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286953982 14951 80.91.229.12 (13 Oct 2010 07:13:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 13 09:13:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P5vWG-0004Cb-D9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:13:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35441 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P5vWF-0006MD-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42225 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P5vVs-0006LU-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:12:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5vVr-00060g-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:12:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38485) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5vVr-00060c-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:12:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P5vVp-0003pF-Ph; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:12:33 -0400 X-Spook: Al Jazeera Becker military explosion White Water SWAT X-Ran: <(*!W@oz0{)2PC}[mXSSwH@rR^E~Eb_^#EoakQM\5[,O}sR-i,KCvD:E<([vj:>qwakZx) X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131659 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Why do you propose deleting this? > > ! For an order form for all Emacs and FSF distributions deliverable from > ! the USA, see http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html. > > Is it that that URL is obsolete? If so, let's update that sentence > rather than deleting it. I propose deleting it because I thought it referred to ordering GNU software on a CD from the FSF, and that service is no longer offered (?). The URL itself just redirects to http://shop.fsf.org/ nowadays, and I put a link to that later on in the file. It does not seem necessary to have it at the top as well. > For this, > > If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a [...] > please use this changed text: [...] OK.