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Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el?
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 15:01:08 -0400

[[[ 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. ]]]

  > ERC exposes emacs' version number in quit messages already:
  >            "(Quit: ERC (IRC client for Emacs 25.0.50.3))"
  > So I don't see why there should be an exception for url.

IRC and web browsing are different activities and raise different
issues regarding surveillance.  There is no reason to insist a priori
on treating them alike.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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