On 11/21/2013 12:33 PM, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
I found some of the example email addresses and domains in the spamd(8)
man page to be somewhat "adult" in nature. If given the choice, I'd
choose to read the man page without the adult content. Here's a patch
against -current that replaces the adult examples with "cleaner"
alternatives. Would a developer be willing to accept this patch?
you want really dirty smut? We got LAWYERS e-mail addresses in the man
pages. Talk about something to keep the kids away from...
I don't think that's gonna fly.
Those particular ones almost qualify as a signature -- anyone who's
worked with the project for a while will look at those and say, "Oh, I
know who wrote this!"
Stuff like this is part of the fun for people developing OpenBSD (and
hopefully, fun for some of the users). Please understand that we don't
want anyone to take away our fun.
As someone who works in a "professional" environment, where results
don't matter as long as the word "Enterprise grade" is attached to the
product, and security is important, as long as it doesn't get in the way
of ANYTHING else, and failure is fine, as long as there's an outside
company you can blame it on, a little unprofessionalism is a relief.
Nick.
