Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file. Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:30:15 -0800 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-64-142-12-79.sonic.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> 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'm not done forcing my morals on you...] > 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? People, people! We're forgetting the real reason why we slave and toil with Cygwin! The answer to your question Gary is simple - Because we're mean! There ya go! End of discussion! > 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? 'Cause their funny! And because we're mean! > 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. Translation: I will continue my proslitizing until I get my way! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/