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: Misleading messages about new versions Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:31:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877d9xtl2e.fsf@turtle-trading.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="25987"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Benjamin Riefenstahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 05:33:38 2022 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 1nJpX0-0006YI-SX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:33:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36978 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJpWz-0002XT-ES for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:33:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58248) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJpUu-0008TK-T5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:31:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=47172 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJpUu-0006jM-5P; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:31:28 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=ybXoabrH0lBfbuN/Mj/TmJhIkGPqm6tPdTov9P3CD4Q=; b=Blh5keEM3O9v qFH9NHjfN5UwDnEyjNtQYEnPAikNHGlfVQrbP07Widu4XLnAr2y/nVNuD7+ROWyFA0W/g1E0hqWxF CZViMJqcho5Z0jxQb6SXApyAuBYlBSFYfmJNS28lh5+z5cuYJiJv8l8Phq5M/itRNzkdttNo1nn2y b1Ah3u2gSQylGJGfqvRsdSt8a01mS1ZH0HtEp73ORQC2GLCyJwi9QvsAcycyR3tz7s0tQONJn5TcO 2hPprEK+3E47N2J1fyAKLuOl5dtFiwfaLvrUjci/qsEUoLlQSe4WyYsxJ4QUOEHHYXa2gyrG4E1s5 X2R5GLQ4Hxjj/FbKx2apTg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJpUi-0003QD-BC; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:31:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <877d9xtl2e.fsf@turtle-trading.net> (message from Benjamin Riefenstahl on Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:27:53 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:286311 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. ]]] > > We're glad to announce adding the new package Whatsit to XXGNU ELPA. > > The initial version number is X.Y. Here's what Whatsit does: > Careful, a machine (program) that pretends to have feelings is a spam > generator in my book. It is not pretense. "We" refers to the Emacs maintainers. I think you're misusing the word "spam". It refers to commercial publicity sent to people who did not ask for it. Announcements from a project to users who sign up for them are not spam. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)