From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 1 21:36:15 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 E084516A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:36:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A7C43D1F for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:36:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AA42BD38 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:36:12 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DE22D51212; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:06:10 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:06:10 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Stephen McKay Message-ID: <20040102053610.GP78263@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200401020525.i025PM2W004726@dungeon.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p2pkNiL1PnZBJ6Nr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401020525.i025PM2W004726@dungeon.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-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: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 05:36:16 -0000 --p2pkNiL1PnZBJ6Nr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 2 January 2004 at 15:25:22 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > I've finally had to edit the fortunes file to remove stuff that is so bad > that I physically cringe whenever I see it. No matter how I try, I just > can't see the funny side of it. Yes, it's in the "potentially obscene" > section, alongside the funniest stuff in the fortunes database. But there > are limits. > > Anyway, today I added a new patch to my list of essential FreeBSD fixes: > I deleted everything by Rush Limbaugh. That guy just can't do humour. It > doesn't work as satire, or even parody. It's just awful. > > Would anybody object if I commited this one? I think the answer would have to be "yes". Though I personally agree with you about its usefulness, the whole thing about the potentially offensive fortunes is, of course, that they might offend. Somebody else might like them. I don't think that anybody should play censor here. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --p2pkNiL1PnZBJ6Nr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/9QNKIubykFB6QiMRAkjeAKCShT1yWJomobZY2LI3htzBr2AFYQCfZrhl jLf9I/ObfizCGeyZhyWJPb8= =hXYR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p2pkNiL1PnZBJ6Nr--