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Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation..."
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation..." |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:14:00 +0200 (IST) |
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > Sending email exposes the sender exactly as posting a news message. No
> > more, no less.
>
> Literally, yes. Practically, no.
>
> Unless the user is familiar with the GNU Mailing lists and the fact that
> the bug reports got to thos lists, they may not even be aware that
> anyone outside of the FSF will see their report.
Most people who read gnu.emacs.bug via the mailing list (like I am)
are ``outside of the FSF'' because most of them are volunteers.
Anyone can subscribe to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. When you subscribe, no
one asks for any credentials.
> After all the current
> message says explicitly that the report will be sent "to the FSF", and
> no hint is given that it's really a public mailing list with world-wide
> distribution *and* cross-posting to usenet.
The OP's point was that he would like to know about the news group.
My point was that there's no difference between a news group and a
mailing list as far as exposure goes. A public email address is the
hint that the message is not landing on someone's private mailbox.
> Furthermore even though a public mailing list is indeed very public,
> unless it's readily available on various search engines (in the case of
> bug-gnu-emacs this is true, but this is not generally true of all public
> mailing lists), it's not nearly as widely indexed and searchable as even
> a GNUsenet posting.
My experience and data disagree with this.
- "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Dan Jacobson, 2001/01/21
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Eli Zaretskii, 2001/01/21
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Greg A. Woods, 2001/01/22
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...",
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Peter S Galbraith, 2001/01/23
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Charles Sebold, 2001/01/23
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Eli Zaretskii, 2001/01/23
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Peter S Galbraith, 2001/01/23
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Karl Eichwalder, 2001/01/23
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Richard Stallman, 2001/01/24
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Eli Zaretskii, 2001/01/24
- Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Greg A. Woods, 2001/01/23
Re: "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation...", Dan Jacobson, 2001/01/22