GNU bug report logs - #61325
30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>

Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 16:02:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #203 received at 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, stefankangas <at> gmail.com,
 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 23:19:04 -0500

[[[ 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. ]]]

  > <sigh> One of the more enjoyable things in life is reading some of
  > Larsʼ whimsy in the Gnus manual, which I doubt is meant to be fully
  > understood. It saddens me that the reaction to it is to remove it.

A manual is meant to be understood by the readers it is addressed to.
A musing that people find it hard to follow is fine in a personal
memoir or an artistic work.  If it is in a manual, it gets in the way
of understanding.


-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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