instead of gnus-cloud.el

From: Richard Stallman Subject: instead of gnus-cloud.el Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 01:10:55 -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. ]]] The term "cloud computing" clouds users minds; it discourages them from asking crucial questions, such as "Whose computer is that, in which country, and what exactly are they asking me to entrust to it?" It fuzzes all the different uses of the network together. So we urge people to reject the term "cloud." See http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html. Thus, I was perturbed to see that a file in Gnus grants legitimacy to the term "cloud" by using it. The name ought to be changed. I was going to suggest another name based on what the file does. But I can't figure out what it does. The only explanation is one line at the top of the file, and it doesn't say much. That is bad maintenance. Would someone like to add comments sufficient to understand what the code does? And please show them to me. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.

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