From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28527 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arcady Genkin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: User Agent string: making it more specific? Date: 03 Jan 2000 04:12:33 -0500 Organization: Wgaf Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <877lhry0vy.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165359 30338 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:55:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54103D051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 04:16:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAB05633; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 03:15:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 03 Jan 2000 03:14:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA07578 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 03:14:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB0AD051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 04:12:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from tea.thpoon.com ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <20000103091029.UNHY7552.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@tea.thpoon.com> for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 01:10:29 -0800 Original-Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 1253XV-0001cq-00; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 04:12:33 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r In-Reply-To: Eric Marsden's message of "03 Jan 2000 10:02:00 +0100" Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28527 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28527 Eric Marsden writes: > per> I'd often use that information when making technical comments > per> to posts from Mozilla users, and have wished for similar > per> information from posts and mail from Gnus users. > > IMO that information would be a breach of user privacy; I for one > would seek to disable it. Although I would vote against including more stuff in User-agent, I don't understand how it would be any more breach of privacy than including Gnus and Emacs versions. Comments? -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)