-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I received the email message below, via a mailing list to which I am subscribed. It purports to have been originally written by Richard Stallman, but I have no proof of this, and I do not know the person named on the topmost From: line (Alfred M. Szmidt). I have serious concerns about the content of the message, and I am considering a formal response; however, after a couple days of thought, I have decided it's more immediately important to document the fact that I received it. To that end, I have placed my own PGP signature on this file, including this text and all of the delivery headers. Starting with the line "Delivered-To: zackw@panix.com", the text is exactly as I extracted it from my MUA, except that I stripped CRs from each line. I would appreciate hearing from other people who also received this message -- particularly if you received it directly, or via a mailing list other than the four named below (gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gnu.org, libc-alpha@gnu.org) -- to tell me whether the body of the message below matches the body of the message you received. If you are willing to cryptographically attest to a match with your own PGP signature, that would be welcome. 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Szmidt) To: gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gnu.org, libc-alpha@gnu.org Subject: [rms@gnu.org: What's GNU -- and what's not] Message-Id: Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2020 03:41:44 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] <#part type=message/rfc822 disposition=inline raw=t> X-From-Line: rms@gnu.org Tue Feb 4 23:28:18 2020 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [209.51.188.10]) by localhost (mpop-1.0.28) with POP3 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:28:18 +0100 Return-path: Envelope-to: ams@gnu.org Delivery-date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:27:08 -0500 Received: from localhost ([::1]:45244 helo=gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iz7am-0000LC-IB; Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:26:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 18:26:51 -0500 From: "Richard Stallman (Chief GNUisance)" To: rms@gnu.org Subject: What's GNU -- and what's not Message-ID: <20200204232649.GA446@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-UIDL: 0D[!!:SV!!lI6!!ABY"! 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