RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

["Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>]

> Most agree that it's a packaging bug in fortune, and that the 
> limericks file should be renamed limericks-o and ROT13'd.  
> End of discussion.

Nononono, don't you try to force your end-of-discussion values on ME!

I agree that at a minimum, the obfuscation you describe is absolutely
required.  However, I'd like an answer to a question which I raised with a
different poster:  What's the reason to provide this profanity at all in the
Cygwin distro?  To the best of my knowledge, there are no Cygwin
X-screensavers loaded with obfuscated pornographic pictures.  I can't
imagine one being accepted were it to be proposed by somebody.  But dirty
limericks get the green light?  Why?

But, in the intrest of the desire of many here to have their porn and
limericks too, I offer this new constructive vote category suggestion:

"[ ]  I demand more filth!  Add a new "Porn" category to Setup!"

Frankly, I'd think just pulling the off-color material is the easiest
solution from a legal, moral, technical, and argumentological standpoint.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 



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