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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: "'cygwin'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:24:49 -0600
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> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, R.Powers wrote:
> 
> > I don't think it has anything to do with Christianity or 
> Atheism or PC 
> > or Free Speech..or being Hip or Cool....or forcing anything on 
> > anybody..........
> >
> > It's merely obscene crudity.
> >
> > If it's better suited to publication on the wall of a public toilet 
> > than on the wall of your living room, for all to ponder and 
> > appreciate, then why keep it.
> 
> That already carries a judgment reflecting your values. 
> Certainly the people who included them in fortune thought otherwise.
> 

If they had thought otherwise, they wouldn't have included them in the first
place.  As a licensed nerd mind-reader, I can tell you exactly the thought
process involved here: "Teeeheeeheee!  I'm gonna add a bunch of dirty
limericks to my program!  That'll compensate for my inability to obtain
sex!"

> > If someone's interest runs in that direction that interest 
> can easily 
> > be fulfilled elsewhere.
> 
> You can say that about many other components of cygwin (say, games).
> 

No you can't.  Unless, say "games", includes similar obscenity.

Jesus Tapdancing Christ you people, did I accidentally stumble into a junior
highschool or something?

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 


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