Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:33:34 -0800 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Cran <brucec@freebsd.org> Cc: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r218650 - head/games/fortune/datfiles Message-ID: <AANLkTinK7qUqYGVv2BP-LzKhePCkMa-LwjTvcz=-W9iZ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201102191929.11510.brucec@freebsd.org> References: <201102131818.p1DIIuLL046962@svn.freebsd.org> <AANLkTi=KFCR=upHG2PErc2h-=U7P4NupY15Ca6-7ogn5@mail.gmail.com> <201102191929.11510.brucec@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:29, Bruce Cran <brucec@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Saturday 19 February 2011 17:25:32 Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > >> Did anybody complain about this? If not, would you mid either revert >> this commit or just go ahead and move all "potentially" offensive >> jokes to fortunes-o? Anything from Grouch Marx or Mark Twain will >> probably qualify. > > Yes, someone complained. From =A0bin/137702: > > "A coworker pointed out a borderline offensive fortune that appeared in m= y > email signature which is partially generated from `fortune -s` output. > > [...] > > I agree that it's probably not appropriate in a professional setting." Professionally-appropriate is not the same as offensive, and such standards vary considerably more than ones for offensiveness. I don't think professionally-appropriate is the right standard for fortune. Certainly there's not really anything very professional about having a random E-Mail signature that's meant to amuse, for that matter.
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