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I remember reading that Richard Stallman uses a program that grabs webpages via a remote command, which are then emailed to him. A side effect of this, I suppose, would be that he could have an archive of everything he read and wanted to keep.

I would love it, to remember too.

If I had a Save button, my Start button would have a balance.

I could live without Save as.. & upload-into-proprietary-backup if my operating system could just remember better.

We need to remember more. If we need to save forever press Archive / Email / Save.

I need that command.

He usually mentions that this is for personal reasons that only apply to himself. No tinfoil hat here (at least not openly). http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#On_web_browsin...

He could, but I've never seen him mention preserving the files (as opposed to downloading to /tmp), and given how much he travels and how he sometimes loses/has his laptop stolen, it may not do him much good long-term anyway.

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