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>>>>> "Galen" == Galen Boyer writes:
Galen> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, ajanta@no.spam wrote:
>> First of all, thank you for all the help. Secondly, I do have a
>> slightly different philosophical perspective on unneeded disk
>> clutter, perhaps rooted in my familarity with the third world.
Galen> Can you send an encrypted phone number to your dealer? My
Galen> stash of really awesome POT is getting low.
Actually, it's not so daft as you might think.
I went to a conference a while back, where someone was talking about
the problems of computing in the third world. For instance, they
talked about having internet access via satellite. This sounds great,
till you realise that this means you get half an hours access a day,
when the satellite happens to be over head.
Okay, I hear you cry, why not just use copper wires? Probably cheaper
than satellite access. Well, the problem was that every time they put
up copper wires, someone with a big pair of croppers came along and
took the wire away. Copper is expensive after all. I thought I had
some ideas of the problems the third world might have, but it turns
out that most of my ideas were wrong.
At the end of the day, Stefan's point, that hard drive space is not
worth the effort saving it would entail, is true. Hard drive space is
cheap, while people are expensive. But, of course, this is only true
in some parts of the world. In many parts of the third world, its the
other way around.
Of course, emacs is not a large offender in this day and age, and
there are many worse. I current have six versions of emacs on my hard
drive, because I've not got around to deleting pretest versions.
The solution here, though, is the "scratching an itch" one. I can
understand why the emacs maintainers don't want to spend time on
it. Other might though, and they should probably be the ones to submit
patches!
Incidentally, on the pot front, you did know about M-x dealer I
presume?
Phil