On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:18:58PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Jeremy Nickurak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The issue isn't whether we should keep racist material out of > > debian. It's a matter of providing software without racist material > > when people don't want racist material, joke or otherwise. > > Right now, I have no trouble: I don't use bitchx. > > If I wanted it, and the offensive joke were always "in my face", I > would delete it. > > I might ask the developer to delete it. > > I might ITP a version of the package without, and "let the users > decide". > > But I wouldn't try and armtwist the developer into doing the work for > me that I should be happy to do myself.
For the record, a bit late: - The thread is not about BitchX, but about irssi-scripts or so. - After great urging, I've removed the messages I considered most legitimately offensive from BitchX several weeks ago. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
