From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71685 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gravatar support Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:17:21 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <87fwwyfzhq.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <1285348436-7582-1-git-send-email-julien@danjou.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285373888 24887 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2010 00:18:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:18:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20058@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Sep 25 02:18:04 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzISq-0000Uq-Fd for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:18:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OzISl-0001Fc-W3; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:18:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OzISk-0001FM-Gl for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OzISg-0001Ex-Fs for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp1.stanford.edu ([171.67.219.81] helo=smtp.stanford.edu) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OzISf-0001Vt-00 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:17:53 +0200 Original-Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D945178D23 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.67.225.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F178178D06 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:17:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 141C72F477; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:17:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:56:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71685 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Gravatar is nice, and the code looks good, but I'm not quite sure > whether adding functionality that relies on outside services is good. I > mean, we've done this in the past now and then... and it's mostly > turned out to not be good. > So I'm not sure. What do all y'all think? This seems like a good use case for user configuration. If I like Gravatar and think it's nifty and want it to download pictures for people, I think I should have to explicitly enable that. Once I've done so, though, I think it's fair game. As long as it isn't the default, I'm not too worried about the privacy concern; people can make an informed decision, particularly if the documentation points out that enabling this would allow Gravatar to perform traffic analysis and get information about what e-mail you're reading. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)