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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:18:42 -0800
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Francis Litterio wrote:

> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>
>>>> Cygwin already provides the content.
>>>
>>> Accidentally, and without the knowledge or consent of the user.
>>
>> Bull. It is not installed by default. The user must select it, thus 
>> that's his  consent.
>
> The user does not know he is giving consent to installing fortune when 
> he is doing a full install of Cygwin. There are over 500 hundred 
> packages in a full Cygwin install.

1) Ignorance is no defense and 2) even doing a "full Cygwin install" 
(whatever that means) fortune is not selected by default (it wasn't for me).
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