From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71656 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gravatar support Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:19:24 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87y6ar80nn.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <1285348436-7582-1-git-send-email-julien@danjou.info> <87d3s3vyiy.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87eicjf27q.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285352404 2754 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2010 18:20:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:20:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20029@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Sep 24 20:20:03 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 1OzCsJ-0001e7-4w for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:19:59 +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 1OzCrw-0007EG-RL; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:19:36 -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 1OzCru-0007Dt-Fu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:19:34 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OzCrt-00085l-Qv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:19:34 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OzCrt-0005SH-00 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:19:33 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzCrs-0001Tx-Kx for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:19:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:19:32 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:19:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:c2QZ9F8xCH1JXF5f/PljPbUvt2k= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71656 Archived-At: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:03:53 +0200 Julien Danjou wrote: JD> On Fri, Sep 24 2010, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> It depends on an external URL so I would put it under contrib/ JD> Picons does. JD> gnus-group-faq does. JD> gnus-group-charter-alist does. JD> gnus-group-archive-directory does. OK, "it depends on a 3rd party that we don't know, control, or influence, and which has no responsibility or incentive to keep the service going for our sake." Sorry I was not precise. Look up NoCeM for a prior example of how this can be painful. So, much like the google-* stuff for org-mode discussed in emacs-devel, I'd be OK if this was done as a user choice with gravatar.com being one of the backend providers, but my vote is no otherwise. Ted