From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: encrypt.el in No Gnus 0.7 Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:56:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zly3y4ru.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87odejy30k.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <54a15d860710311830s4fa203e3y53fbd6f51496f007@mail.gmail.com> <54a15d860711010824w6888aafdgb0a0e5d48f6fdebb@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194422236 26850 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2007 07:57:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 07:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ueno@unixuser.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, miles@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14075@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Nov 07 08:57:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ipfmo-0004YH-2U for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:57:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ipflp-00009z-RY; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:56:17 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ipfln-00009d-Vq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:56:15 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ipflh-0000qV-Te for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:56:15 -0600 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ipflc-0003M1-00 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:56:04 +0100 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ipflf-0004Xr-Eu; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:56:07 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Ted Zlatanov on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:58:50 -0600) X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65577 gmane.emacs.devel:82711 Archived-At: It does a particular job well, which is interfacing with GnuPG, but I think it's a disservice to Emacs users to assume that GnuPG is all they need, and that they want to install it to get encryption/decryption services. If you disagree with me, there's little more I can say to convince you otherwise, since this is the essential point I'm trying to make. Evidence of users actually wanting to use that sort of extension in Emacs would convince me very quickly.