From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 1 21:53:29 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 3665116A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:53:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from tx0.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx0.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364CF43D39 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan0.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.162] helo=localhost) by tx0.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AcIFQ-0003if-DQ for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 05:53:24 +0000 Received: from rx0.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.161]) by localhost (scan0.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.162]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 13979-07 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 05:53:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx0.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AcIFP-0003iX-2w for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 05:53:23 +0000 Received: (qmail 1195 invoked by uid 0); 2 Jan 2004 05:53:23 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (sweep: 2.14/3.71. spamassassin: 2.53. Clear:. Processed in 1.276064 secs); 02 Jan 2004 05:53:23 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk via gateway X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 1.276064 secs) Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 2 Jan 2004 05:53:22 -0000 Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.1.20040102054424.0426d848@imap.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@imap.sfu.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 05:53:11 +0000 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <20040102053610.GP78263@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200401020525.i025PM2W004726@dungeon.home> <20040102053610.GP78263@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: Stephen McKay 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 05:53:29 -0000 At 05:36 02/01/2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Friday, 2 January 2004 at 15:25:22 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > > 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. I don't think the problem here is that they are potentially offensive... the problem is that they're simply *not funny*. There's also the problem that the 35 quotes were intended to be read in sequence, so fortune(1) is a very lossy way of reading them. But maybe American humour is too subtle for this Oxonian to understand... Colin Percival