From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:20:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83im82dvww.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnwolu2i.fsf@gnu.org> <835z48lf21.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38545"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 16:20:52 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1kzLTX-0009vQ-Sc for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:20:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51240 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzLTW-0003o2-Vh for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:20:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzLTF-0003eF-MJ for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:20:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33198) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzLTD-0004iE-VD; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2884 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kzLSj-0000UL-M9; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:20:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:34 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:585 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: ams@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, > ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-tangents@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:34 -0500 > > > I think the problem at hand here is how we, or some people, define > > actively promoting something. Is a mere reference to existence a > > promotion of something? > > In some cases it is. Spreading the word about an obscure program > is promoting it, since that information would lead some people to > use them. I think nowadays the information is so pervasive and so easily found that refraining from mentioning some program or site has no real advantages. It does have disadvantages: for example, we let our enemies mock us.