From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The netsec thread Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:29:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86pnzdrn8u.fsf@gmail.com> <834l36koak.fsf@gnu.org> <87pnlg7r83.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87o90gd1us.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <838srkb64w.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef1cb3ua.fsf@gnus.org> <83r25cjbm6.fsf@gnu.org> <87r259ajyr.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="213346"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 26 00:29:21 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i210j-000tL4-CX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:29:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48506 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i210i-0000C1-BB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i210d-0000BS-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:29:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56652) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i210c-0006uV-VX; Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i210X-0006XJ-Az; Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:29:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r259ajyr.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 07:32:28 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:239562 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. ]]] > In the Emacs manual, we don't discuss details of the SMTP or IMAP > protocols, and we don't give an exegesis on UTF-8. But for TLS > connections, we currently have a lot of talk about RC4 and 3DES and the > like, Another option is to move that to a comment in the code. That would not _remove_ it, since it would still be present in Emacs, but it would not clutter up the manual. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)