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Subject:	RE: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)
Date:	Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:03:08 -0500
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> Yes but it *can* work just after you install it but before 
> you ever run 
> it! This part seems like a disclaimer if I've ever saw one:
> 
>      -o    Choose only from potentially offensive aphorisms.  Please, 
> please,
>            please request a potentially offensive fortune if 
> and only if you
>            believe, deep down in your heart, that you are 
> willing to be
>            offended.  (And that if you are, you'll just quit 
> using -o rather
>            than give us grief about it, okay?)
> 
> And you don't have to install it - you can research it! See 
> http://www.rt.com/man/fortune.6.html

Uh-huh.  And the problem reported is (at least in part) that
even if you don't use -o when calling fortune, you may end up
seeing 'potentially offensive aphorisms'.

It's a bug.

-Samrobb

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