From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug' Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 20:23:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <<<87k2j3jq28.fsf@gnus.org>> <<6ccbf505-5818-432b-98fa-0733930be2e7@default>> <>> <<3ad08202-3529-4613-8f78-ef10b3abb9e2@default>> <> <03aa6991-05db-42d8-93cb-9b45ece07436@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1463012658 7942 80.91.229.3 (12 May 2016 00:24:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 00:24:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 12 02:24:09 2016 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 1b0eQB-00085E-8L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2016 02:24:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b0eQA-0004uK-4D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2016 20:24:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46313) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b0ePx-0004rT-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2016 20:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b0ePw-0000J9-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 May 2016 20:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35284) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b0ePg-0000A7-4X; Wed, 11 May 2016 20:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1b0ePW-0003zL-3G; Wed, 11 May 2016 20:23:26 -0400 In-reply-to: <03aa6991-05db-42d8-93cb-9b45ece07436@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 11 May 2016 07:44:48 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203795 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The answer _might_ be the same each time. Or it might be the > same _most_ times. The point is to give a user the chance to > _decide whether_ to be asked each time. Some users might not > want to be asked each time. How many times a day is a person likely to report an Emacs bug? Is there anyone who reports bugs at an average rate of even one bug per day? I doubt it. Saving a person an unwanted question at such rare intervals is not worth enough to matter. The two things that do matter are * Privacy. * Reporting more of the possibly useful data. The balance between these will vary, so it makes sense to ask the user to judge it each time. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.