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From: "Jonathan Anderson" <jonathan@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Bill Sorenson" <instructionset@gmail.com>
Cc: mike@karels.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: The future of fortune(6)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:50:46 -0330
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On 27 Nov 2017, at 1:01, Bill Sorenson wrote:

> I for one would recommend leaving things alone unless it is a
> substantive improvement.

That's a sound principle, but if we move the datfiles (other than 
`freebsd-tips`) into ports, we could take all of the future time we 
would otherwise spend debating fortune(6) and use it for... anything 
else. :) I would call that a substantive improvement.


Jon
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