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Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.


I agree. As a Christian I find such fortune comments disgusting and
they should be burned.

Zach


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:54:16 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle
<g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:32:14PM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:
> > >Remember, alot of these have been in the fortunes package
> > for god knows
> > >how long, and Cygwin isn't the only one thats going to have
> > them.  I'm
> > >betting that any distro that has the Fortunes package has them too.
> >
> > Right.  The README of the package says this:
> >
> >   The potentially offensive fortunes are installed by default
> > on FreeBSD
> >   systems.  If you're absolutely, *positively*,
> >   without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt sure that your user community goes
> >   berzerk/sues your pants off/drops dead upon reading one of
> > them, edit
> >   the Makefile in the subdirectory datfiles, and do "make all
> > install".
> >
> > So, we do undoubtedly have the default version and I am
> > undoubtedly getting more prudish about this type of thing.
> >
> > Maybe we need a vote.  I would really like to know how people
> > feel about this.  We haven't had a vote in a long time so:
> >
> > How do you feel about the off-color content in the cygwin
> > fortune files?
> >
> >   [ ] Offended.  Think about the children!
> >   [ ] Not offended.  Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values.
> >   [ ] Don't care.  Can we go back to talking about how
> > negative this list is now?
> >
> >
> 
> My write-in candidate:
> [x] Not offended.  Clean it up anyway.  It's unprofessional in the extreme
> and can only result in embarassment and trouble.
> 
> But in the interest of democracy, I offer the following additional vote
> category (to be clear, this is NOT my vote):
> [ ] Offended by its tameness.  Change the project name to "Cygpr0n" and add
> packages of pron videos, jpgs, and fan fiction.
> 
> Do the right thing Corinna/Chris/Whoever.
> 
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> Gary R. Van Sickle
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