On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Bruce Cran <bru...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Saturday 19 February 2011 17:25:32 Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > >> Did anybody complain about this? If not, would you mid either revert >> this commit or just go ahead and move all "potentially" offensive >> jokes to fortunes-o? Anything from Grouch Marx or Mark Twain will >> probably qualify. > > Yes, someone complained. From bin/137702: > > "A coworker pointed out a borderline offensive fortune that appeared in my > email signature which is partially generated from `fortune -s` output.
So the PR submitter should stop using random fortunes in email signatures instead of asking FreeBSD to make fortunes compliant to the moral standards of his/her coworkers. How long do you think it will take until somebody else find a a borderline offensive fortune? > [...] > > I agree that it's probably not appropriate in a professional setting." Sure. People must understand that fortunes are an optional feature whose use has unpredictable consequences. Blaming FreeBSD for the possible inconveniences. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
