From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:36:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvshzffwix.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E16BD3EC-F7ED-463C-804C-DCBA8E548B15@lunaryorn.com
>>> (Stefan, for example, your emails are tagged with "Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)
>>> Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)"). Has there been complaints about Gnus
>>> doing that?
>> I never liked it, but admittedly, I never complained about it.
> May I ask why you do not like this behaviour? What stands against it?
That's just a leak of private information.
Of course, when compared to the crapload of private info most systems
send out at any opportunity nowadays, this is very minor, obviously.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-24 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-24 17:22 Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-24 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-24 20:22 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2016-03-24 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-03-24 21:08 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2016-03-24 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-24 21:33 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-03 23:29 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-04 14:26 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-04 14:57 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-05 14:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-05 15:20 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-05 15:38 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-05 23:56 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-06 6:37 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-06 22:23 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-07 8:17 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-07 21:15 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-24 20:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-24 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-24 21:02 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-24 21:02 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-24 20:50 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Steve Purcell
2016-04-10 5:10 ` Vibhav Pant
2016-04-10 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-10 20:36 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-11 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
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