Re: Emacs as a word processor

[Richard Stallman]

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  org-ref does
  > 5. Auto-retrieving meta-data from URL or DOI

This may be an example of a dangerous practice: communicating over the
network as a silent subtask of something else the user asks to do.

Or maybe it isn't.  After all, I don't know the details -- I can't
reach any certain conclusions.  What I am doing is extrapolating to a
possible danger.  That's my job ;-).  So the next step is to learn
some more.

Could you please show us concretely what org-ref does in regard
to this meta-data?  What would the user specify, and what would
it do in response?

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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