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Subject:	Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.
Date:	Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:30:13 -0800
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.


> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:12:57PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote:
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Christopher Faylor"
>>Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:57 PM
>>Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:13:40PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote:
>>>>The problem seems simple to me.  A filthy Limerick is not a Fortune.
>>>>
>>>>The program is misnamed.
>>>
>>>Hmm.  Ever heard of "grep" or "ls"?  Fortune is much closer to being named
>>>something that makes sense than several other programs in the distribution.
>>
>>If "grep" were named "delete" and everyone lived with it, then I
>>could understand with your analogy.  But the way it is, I can't.
> 
> Huh?  The name "fortune" is close to what it does.  It sort of displays
> fortune cookie like stuff.  Labelling a program like grep with a English
> word that has no bearing on its functionality is not a correct analogy.

Sorry my remarks went over your head.  I don't think a filthy
limerick is in any way "sort of like" a fortune.  Do you?

Let me state for the record: I have no problem whatsoever the
way the fortune program currently works or what it outputs.

>>Maybe someone should ask Torvald, not Red Hat.
> 
> Now you've really lost me.  Do you think that Linus Torvalds has
> something to do with grep, ls, delete, or fortune?  All of those
> certainly predate his first exposure to UNIX by many years.

My dad always told me "If you have to explain them, they're
probably no good."  So I'll stop.

> cgf


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