On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:29, 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. > > [...] > > I agree that it's probably not appropriate in a professional setting."
Professionally-appropriate is not the same as offensive, and such standards vary considerably more than ones for offensiveness. I don't think professionally-appropriate is the right standard for fortune. Certainly there's not really anything very professional about having a random E-Mail signature that's meant to amuse, for that matter. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
