From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Idea for determining what users use Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:52:24 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5xk7c8m1y2.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054483897 7804 80.91.224.249 (1 Jun 2003 16:11:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 16:11:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 01 18:11:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19MVQk-00021Z-00 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 18:11:34 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19MVgw-0003vC-00 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 18:28:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19MVBy-0001hp-GG for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:56:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19MVAi-0001IO-08 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:55:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19MVAQ-0000y3-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19MV8C-0000Re-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:52:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19MV8C-0007om-Lp; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:52:24 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: <5xk7c8m1y2.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14559 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14559 For the un-informed public (read journalists, m$-evangelists, etc), putting such a feature into emacs could be used to bad-mouth the GNU project for installing "SPY-ware" on the users' systems. It isn't spyware, and it obviously isn't spyware. A few people might get confused, but others would straighten them out. Consider a user who finds a feature that we have marked obsolete and decides to try it out ... SURPRISE, he's asked whether he wants to send mail to the emacs team about actively using this feature ... He will read the message, and decide whether he wants to send it. If he isn't really using the feature, he won't send the message.