From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:29:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <10e79eeb32b5d8f49453fe62f145172d@skeletons.cc> <87pn3vr605.fsf@red-bean.com> <837dq3ldvh.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2ijo3tr.fsf@red-bean.com> <87eekao7qq.fsf@red-bean.com> <2a314856-5655-4479-9bc4-d8f60cb14af3@default> <20201201085735.GC26076@tuxteam.de> <87h7p5pgmb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8005"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 02 05:30:27 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kkJmd-0001y8-9K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2020 05:30:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55804 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kkJmc-0006kh-8H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:30:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51078) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kkJlt-0006A3-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:29:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42329) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kkJls-0005Uy-JZ; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:29:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kkJlq-00077D-77; Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:29:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87h7p5pgmb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:42:52 -0800) 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:260168 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 kinds of tips and > information that academics will find useful might lend themselves well > to a "knowledgebase" sort of presentation, and emacswiki could be ideal > for that. We could have a separate area on the wiki, and at the top note > that if you want to discuss any of the information in that section, > write to emacs-help with such-and-such a prefix. It might be useful, but it might backfire at a deeper level. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the people who set up emacswiki do not have a connection to the GNU Project, and do not see a problem in advising people to use nonfree software. More generally, they present nonfree software as acceptable and not as something we should all shun. If that is so, directing people to emacswiki exacerbates the promotion of that point of view. That would be a reason for us to make some other choice. When we ask people to write material about using Emacs, we would be more effective if we ask people to publish it via gnu.org. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)