From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:24:15 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141212102415.GB19998@thyrsus.com> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> <87388mme16.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87a92u86wv.fsf@gnu.org> <548A6893.4020403@cs.ucla.edu> <87tx11dwa4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418379911 632 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 10:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 11:25:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzNPC-0002in-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:25:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzNPC-00027n-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzNP5-000275-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzNP1-0005No-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:24:55 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:44768 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzNOw-0005Io-3O; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6AB78C008E; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:24:15 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tx11dwa4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179877 Archived-At: David Kastrup : > So name a single respect in which any proposal is significantly better. > So far we had "it's new and hipper, so for the next two years it might > garner more fans". What else? Increased visibility to search engines. That's really important! -- Eric S. Raymond