Re: The name gnus-cloud.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

On December 19, 2017 8:09:59 AM GMT+02:00, John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>> "RS" == Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> RS> Is anyone else here concerned about the name of that file?
> 
> I have no issue with the name gnus-cloud.el. Given the modern era, it
> has come
> to simply mean "The data lives on someone else's computer". I don't
> see any
> negative connotations, or misleading meaning.The data is just using
> Gnus to
> put the data "somewhere else", and being what Gnus is, that somewhere
> else
> happens to be an IMAP server (though really, it could be anywhere at
> all,
> you're just using Gnus as an interface to fetch it as though it were
> on a
> news/mail server).

AFAIU, what you say is not the issue.  No one asked to change what gnus-cloud 
_does_.  The issue at hand is just the _name_ of the file, and that makes very 
little sense to me.