On Nov 22, 2013, at 10:06 AM, J. Lewis Muir <jlm...@imca-cat.org> wrote:
> 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 > It looks like a pretty one-sided deal you're proposing: passive-aggressive moves to control the speech of those who have respected your freedom to express your opinion and be heard. Pretty damned selfish behavior on your part as far as I can tell. If I had the skill, time and energy to generate a patch it would be for something that's actually broken and in need of fixing. M
