Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:36:48 +0000 From: Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org> To: khanzf@gmail.com, bsd-lists@BSDforge.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of fortune(6) Message-ID: <201711291336.vATDanka032779@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net> In-Reply-To: <46c6014e118501a00c4fb76e051cb880@udns.ultimatedns.net> References: <46c6014e118501a00c4fb76e051cb880@udns.ultimatedns.net>
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"Chris H" <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> wrote: > Which means; posting replies ABOVE the thread dialog. It completely > corrupts the flow (see; thread) and makes it impossible to follow along > in history -- especially from the archived FreeBSD mailing list. Answers > to questions will never be found. Answers will be left dangling, and make > no sense... > So (technically, and historically) this has always been considered; rude. > Nothing personal. Just felt it was important to point out. And related to that is editting/pruning the message you're replying to ;-) Anyway, these lists turned into a spam fest of incomprehensible top posts and unedited quoting a long time ago. No one (else) seems to care anymore. :-( As for the fortune bikeshed, I think there are 2 seperate issues that have been raised, and conflated. 1) Whether the offensive datafile should have been removed. 2) The potentially POLA, unannounced, undiscussed, arbitary decision of someone to make such a change on a whim. Some reactions to the latter have been taken as responses to the former. cheers
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