From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The name gnus-cloud.el Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:17:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87374jd66s.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bmj6dda0.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <87vahe911g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87374id7jy.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <877ett8g7k.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87a7yn7tqp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878te75xa1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ind6l2tt.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513632121 4938 195.159.176.226 (18 Dec 2017 21:22:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:22:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 18 22:21:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2rB-0000rR-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 22:21:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43498 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2t9-0007YQ-F1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:23:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2pN-0003rs-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:20:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2oe-0005sM-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:20:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45888) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2mn-0003bv-9s; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:17:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eR2mk-0003zi-RE; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:17:18 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 17 Dec 2017 23:31:37 +0100) 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:221233 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. ]]] > > How about gnus-noncloud.el? > > That would make the joke clearer so we could all get it. > Wouldn't a name like that imply that somewhere there is such a thing as > a cloud? No, it wouldn't imply that. It would only mean that this isn't a cloud. > The current name is an explicit joke on the concept that a "cloud" > exists. You can view it as a joke -- that would be an "in joke" -- but it is not explicitly visible as one. If you'd like to contribute to a joke about this to Emacs, please do it in a way that the users can see and understand. That way, they can appreciate it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.