Subject: Re: bug#40676: 28.0.50; gnus locks when reading email

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 23:11:20 -0400

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  > > Indeed -- it makes libravatar a much worse interface than the central
  > > Gravatar service (where you just have to trust the Gravatar people
  > > somewhat, instead of the entire internet).
  > >
  > > So that's another reason not to make libravatar the default provider.

I don't know about libravatar, but ISTR that gravatar was found
to do some sort of surveillance of users.  Is that correct?
Was libravatar intended as a replacement to respect users' privacy
more than gravatar?

But it seems there is a problem with using libravatar, right?

If that is the case, we should not think of "use gravatar"
as a _solution_.  It might fix an urgent problem, but we
would not want it as a permanent change.  A real solution 
is to make libravatar work well.

If what is needed is async DNS lookup, how about running
a shell command asynchronously to do it?

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Dr Richard Stallman
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