Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc

[Richard Stallman]

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    Please do that.  Meanwhile, I'll try to consolidate material now scattered
    across multiple files where it makes sense to do so.  The miscellaneous
    humor files are an obvious target for this.

Be careful about that!  Some of the humor files are in separate files
because programs refer to them.  I suggest you wait for me to identify
some to delete, before working on changes.

I suggest deleting these files, which were put here before we had a web site.

COOKIES
copying.paper
echo.msg
INTERVIEW
JOKES (but save the EMACS acronyms)
MAILINGLISTS
MOTIVATION
publicsuffix.txt
SERVICE

We can replace copying.paper, MAILINGLISTS and SERVICE by URLs.

We can also delete celebacy.1 and sex.6,
as well as the program meese.el which uses them.
I doubt many users will remember Attorney General Meese.

condom.1 can also be deleted; it is not actually related to those
two files, but without them, why put it here?
(Though the reference to setiud is funny.)


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