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Re: The name gnus-cloud.el
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: The name gnus-cloud.el |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:42:32 +0200 |
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On December 19, 2017 8:09:59 AM GMT+02:00, John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>> "RS" == Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> RS> Is anyone else here concerned about the name of that file?
>
> I have no issue with the name gnus-cloud.el. Given the modern era, it
> has come
> to simply mean "The data lives on someone else's computer". I don't
> see any
> negative connotations, or misleading meaning.The data is just using
> Gnus to
> put the data "somewhere else", and being what Gnus is, that somewhere
> else
> happens to be an IMAP server (though really, it could be anywhere at
> all,
> you're just using Gnus as an interface to fetch it as though it were
> on a
> news/mail server).
AFAIU, what you say is not the issue. No one asked to change what gnus-cloud
_does_. The issue at hand is just the _name_ of the file, and that makes very
little sense to me.
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, (continued)
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, Richard Stallman, 2017/12/23
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/23
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, Richard Stallman, 2017/12/24
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/25
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, Paul Eggert, 2017/12/25
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, Richard Stallman, 2017/12/26
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, Richard Stallman, 2017/12/24
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/25
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, Richard Stallman, 2017/12/18
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, John Wiegley, 2017/12/19
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, Richard Stallman, 2017/12/21
Re: The name gnus-cloud.el, joakim, 2017/12/19