Re: Proposal for a new package on ELPA: Elbank

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > To me, it sounds like a 'bot' framework,

Is there a difference between a "bot framework" and something that allows
people to automate their communications with web services?

It appears to me this is a case of a general-purpose tool that can be used
for good or for bad.  Like wget.

Is this criticism more valid for Weboob than it would be for wget?

Can you offer a constructive criticism?  A way that Weboob could aid
ethical uses more and unethical uses less?

					     which would make FSF/ELPA enablers
  > for the type anti-social web-izens

No it wouldn't.  Even supposing that your criticism were valid for
Weboob -- which has not been demonstrated -- it would not be valid for
our program, Elbank, which would use Weboob only for doing a
legitimate job.

				       that have lead us all to suffer all forms
  > of captcha.

I see no reason to think Elbank would have that effect.

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