Lewis,

If censorship is your thing, why don’t you start by censoring yourself.

What you are asking for here is offensive.

-Rick

On Nov 22, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Il 22/nov/2013 19:07 "J. Lewis Muir" <jlm...@imca-cat.org> ha scritto:
>> 
>> On 11/22/13 11:17 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote:
>>> If it's offensive for you, compile your own spamd man page with
>>> the diff you so happily provided, and live the rest of your life
>>> happy. Remember to always take this pill again on 1st of May, and 1st
>>> of November, every year.
>> 
>> Hi, Giancarlo.
>> 
>> Well, no one wants to maintain a patch forever.  I'd maintain it for a
>> while if there was a good chance it would get accepted at some point,
>> but if there's no chance, then I wouldn't bother.
>> 
>> I'm a little puzzled over the whole resistance to the patch.  If I
>> wrote a man page for some software I wrote, and if an example in it was
>> considered off-color by someone, and that someone submitted a patch to
>> me to change it slightly to no longer be off-color to them, and they
>> asked in a kind way, and the patch didn't hurt the clarity of the man
>> page in any way, I would likely accept the patch.  How am I hurt by it?
>> I may not agree with the person, but why would I insist on keeping an
>> example that seems off-color to them?  If it's somehow offensive to them
>> and can be changed in a small way not to be, then I would accept the
>> patch to change it.  Everybody wins--no big deal.
>> 
>> Lewis
> 
> +1

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