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From: | Adam Porter |
Subject: | Re: Distribution statistics for ELPA and EMMS |
Date: | Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:49:41 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 |
[I just noticed this message from a few months ago.] On 7/16/23 21:25, Richard Stallman wrote:
[[[ 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. ]]] We could have two options for downloading, one which is "for a real user" and one which is "for periodic testing". The only difference would be that the former increments the user download count and the latter does not.
I like this idea, but it seems like it would be hard to enforce. It could even go the other way, i.e. have Emacs send a query string or header when installing a package manually, which could be logged and used to filter the download logs later. But even that might be harder than it seems, e.g. if I call a command like:
emacs --eval "(package-install FOO)"...to non-interactively install a package into a local directory for testing, how far, and in how many places, would some kind of flag need to be propagated to end up in the server's logs?
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