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Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function'
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chad |
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Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' |
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Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:01:21 -0700 |
On Jul 6, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I wouldn't be surprised if the gnu.org
> login servers were in the top 100 by usage of such machines in the
> world.
>
> If it is useful for the FSF, it is probably useful for many other
> organizations.
I can think of very few organizations that have both the FSF's focus
on computing use and our lack of resources.
> You consider this kind of system a "niche legacy", so you will tend
> not to notice them, but that doesn't mean they are few in number.
That is certainly possible. What I was trying to convey is simply this:
Such systems used to be common, but are far less so now. A little
exploration tells me that at least a few tens of thousands of users of
such systems *to my direct knowledge* have moved entirely away
from that model. At this point, I am aware of more people that no
longer use such systems than use emacs at all. Of course, my
personal awareness is a poor over-all metric.
> Each one has many users, and its sysadmins may not be Emacs users.
Indeed, which is why I was trying to suggest that we should simply try
your experiment and see how it works.
I assume that you replied because you took umbrage at the phrase
`rare edge case'. I meant no offense; covering edge cases is a
valiant and necessary part of good software engineering. I replied
in detail because I thought that it might be helpful, since you so
famously ``appear to be well outside the solar system''.
Thanks,
*Chad
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', (continued)
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Tim Cross, 2011/07/04
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/07/05
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Jan Djärv, 2011/07/05
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/07/05
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Antoine Levitt, 2011/07/05
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', chad, 2011/07/05
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/07/05
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/07/06
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', chad, 2011/07/06
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/07/06
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function',
chad <=
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/07/07
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Michael Welsh Duggan, 2011/07/07
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/07/07
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Tim Cross, 2011/07/06
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/07/06
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', chad, 2011/07/06
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/07/07
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', chad, 2011/07/08
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', Richard Stallman, 2011/07/09
- Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function', chad, 2011/07/11