From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 10:02:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A716216A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (papagena.rockefeller.edu [129.85.41.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18CC743D2F for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:02:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) i05Hx5Vj032139; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:59:05 -0500 Received: (from rsidd@localhost) by papagena.rockefeller.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i05Hx4FV032137; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:59:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:59:04 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Stephen McKay Message-ID: <20040105175904.GA32112@online.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401051502.i05F2qqG007611@dungeon.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20-20.9smp i686 cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Personal patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:02:24 -0000 Stephen McKay wrote: > I've got all I know about this guy from his entries in the FreeBSD > fortune file. I suspect that's true of most people outside the US who are reading this. I barely knew Limbaugh's name before coming to the US. (And I'd never heard of Al Franken either until Fox sued him about his book.) Limbaugh's quotes, everyone seems to agree, are neither funny nor intelligent; they're merely offensive. Why should FreeBSD give an international pulpit to some little-known ignorant American broadcaster? Would a random idiot hack from, say, Japan, Norway, or other countries with FreeBSD contributors, make it to the fortune files? Can I nominate Varsha Bhosle or Mani Shankar Aiyar from India (raise your hand if you've heard of them)? It may be an "offensive" fortune file but that doesn't mean offensiveness is the only criterion for inclusion. Personally I think the offensive fortune file can be removed, or made into a port. We have quite enough sources for offensive humour these days, thank you, besides a lot of it seems quite innocuous to me and can be merged back into the regular file (or else many the regular fortunes seem potentially offensive). All humour is potentially offensive to someone somewhere of course, but we can draw the line at stupid bigoted non-humour like Rush Limbaugh. Rahul