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From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reply to list [was: Different key maps in different dired buffers]
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:03:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160606160027208571077@bob.proulx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86k2i24z4m.fsf@student.uu.se>

Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> > That is the problem. It is available.
> > People will use it. We can't stop people from
> > posting to the news group.
> 
> ...!?
> 
> Why would anyone want to stop people from
> using it?
> 
> And why it is a problem that it is available?

The message you responded to told it all.  I will repeat it for you.

> Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> > That is it!  References are broken.
> >
> > So what we could do with it, besides avoiding posting here via
> > ‘gnu.emacs.help’?
> 
> That is the problem.  It is available.  People will use it.  We can't
> stop people from posting to the news group.

At this moment the only way to avoid the problem of broken References
is to avoid using it.  But it is available.  Therefore people will
continue to use it.  Therefore we will continue to see broken
References whenever anyone posts through the news gateway.

Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-06 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-26  8:14 Different key maps in different dired buffers Whitfield Diffie
2016-05-26  9:06 ` tomas
2016-05-26 12:25   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-26 12:37     ` tomas
2016-05-26 14:03 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-26 15:05   ` Whitfield Diffie
2016-05-26 15:24     ` Drew Adams
2016-05-26 17:46     ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-05-26 17:59       ` Whitfield Diffie
2016-05-26 18:05         ` Drew Adams
2016-05-27  7:09           ` Reply to list [was: Different key maps in different dired buffers] tomas
2016-05-27  8:02             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-27 16:46               ` Glenn Morris
2016-05-27 18:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-03 23:38                   ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.787.1464997128.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-04  1:40                     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-04  2:12                       ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.789.1465006376.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-04  2:51                         ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-04 15:52                           ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-06-04 19:41                             ` Bob Proulx
2016-06-04 19:48                               ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-06  2:57                                 ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                                 ` <mailman.953.1465181882.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-06  3:11                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-04 20:05                               ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-05 10:28                                 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
     [not found]                             ` <mailman.857.1465069271.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-05 12:44                               ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-06-05 13:35                                 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-06-06  3:29                                   ` Bob Proulx
2016-06-08 11:43                                     ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-06-09 23:35                                       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-16  0:45                                       ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                                       ` <mailman.1575.1466037955.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-16  5:24                                         ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]                                   ` <mailman.955.1465183780.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-06  6:20                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-06 22:03                                       ` Bob Proulx [this message]
     [not found]                                       ` <mailman.1023.1465250629.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-06 22:55                                         ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-04 17:30                           ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.837.1465055573.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-04 18:35                             ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-05 11:00                               ` Dmitry Alexandrov
     [not found]                               ` <mailman.895.1465124454.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-05 23:29                                 ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.850.1465061448.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-04 19:04                             ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-27 11:42             ` Whitfield Diffie

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