From: Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs stackexchange beta site
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 15:39:52 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvflxp1r.fsf@panda.goosenet.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fvfmtkky.fsf@debian.uxu
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
| <snipped not bothering about Google spying>
:
| > [IIRC, once you outlined the difference (in
| > comp.lang.lisp) between a world (such as the original
| > ARPANET) where each person has his own mail server
| > and one (such as ours) wherein everyone used a single
| > mail server (like the one for Google Mail.) I think
| > you gave the example of Minitel.
|
| That sounds like an interesting post. Perhaps you or
| the OP can provide a URL or downright yank it here?
A cursory search of Google Groups did not turn it up for me.
| <snip correction to intuition about the Internet and Gmail>
:
| Read this, if you like:
|
| http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
Thank you for the reference.
[Off topic.
Is Google now as bad as Microsoft then?]
| Off topic, but still a good opportunity to ask: how do
| you reference a Usenet (NNTP) post?
If I suspect that the post would still be active, a simple message ID
does it for me, because then I can just M-^
(gnus-summary-refer-article) and retrieve the post. If I had saved it,
then I might repost it partially, quoting it appropriately. If it
turns out that I have to Google it, then I might sigh and get to it.
| I take it there are web archives - I only know of Google
| Groups (if you don't count those that archive specific
| mailing lists). The coolest thing would be to get the
| post straight in Gnus or whatever news client, and that
| shouldn't be that difficult for posts that are still on
| the newsserver (I don't know for how long they are stored;
| I use Aioe.org).
Imagine a hyperlinking system built into newsreaders and connected to
some Usenet archive.
| Actually, I'm on comp.lang.lisp though I very seldom
| read it because I don't do CL or Scheme or anything but
| Elisp actually.
Once a while, there is some discussion of the Lisp family, which might
include Maclisp (the basis, as far as I can tell, for Emacs Lisp) and
Emacs Lisp. But usually Emacs Lisp is not considered in that newsgroup.
| <snip>
:
| They won't. No one believes that. It is like a book in
| the public library on Debian or Fedora. No one will
| read it for several years and then some guy stumbles
| upon it when browsing the shelf for a book on game
| programming in C++ (perhaps C# those days). That guy
| then becomes a Linux user and forgets about stupid
| games. That makes it worth it and that is why the
| library board shouldn't throw that book away, or
| else...!
Well put.
--
Udyant Wig
GitHub: https://github.com/udyant
Poetry: http://www.writing.com/main/profile/biography/frosthrone
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2014-09-17 23:26 ` emacs stackexchange beta site Emanuel Berg
2014-09-18 2:06 ` Drew Adams
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2014-09-18 21:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-18 23:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-19 13:34 ` Tom
2014-09-19 14:53 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9197.1411138427.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-19 19:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-19 19:58 ` Drew Adams
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2014-09-19 20:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-19 20:44 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9235.1411159521.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-19 21:01 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.9194.1411136428.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-19 19:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-19 19:55 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9230.1411156541.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-19 20:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-19 6:13 ` Udyant Wig
2014-09-19 17:57 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.9215.1411149649.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-19 18:53 ` Udyant Wig
2014-09-19 19:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-19 19:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-19 23:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-09-20 1:24 ` Stefan Monnier
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2014-09-20 6:14 ` Udyant Wig
2014-09-20 14:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-21 10:09 ` Udyant Wig [this message]
2014-09-21 15:52 ` Emanuel Berg
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2014-09-20 6:17 ` Udyant Wig
2014-09-19 18:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-19 18:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-20 6:58 ` Udyant Wig
2014-09-20 15:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-21 10:04 ` Udyant Wig
2014-09-21 15:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-22 5:10 ` Udyant Wig
2014-09-22 22:44 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.9168.1411115739.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-19 19:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-17 22:36 Ian Kelling
2014-10-11 13:33 ` Bastien
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2014-10-17 0:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-10-17 0:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-10-17 21:37 ` Artur Malabarba
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2014-10-17 22:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-10-18 14:33 ` Rainer M Krug
2014-10-18 17:06 ` Artur Malabarba
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