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bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:06:07 +0100 |
>>>>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 18:57:55 +0200, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> said:
Dmitry> On 09/03/2023 16:17, Robert Pluim wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 16:10:22 +0200, Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
said:
Dmitry> On 09/03/2023 06:05, Sam James wrote:
>> >> Attached hopefully a good compromise between the
>> >> original bug & improving it.
Dmitry> I like that.
>> I donʼt. It loses the self-deprecating joke that hackers care about
>> sex and Emacs, and very little else.
Dmitry> Do they, though?
Of course not. Thatʼs why itʼs a joke.
Dmitry> I'm not a puritan, but the "joke" seems juvenile to me, and simply
not
Dmitry> very funny.
Dmitry> I get the point about preserving history, but maybe the latest
version
Dmitry> of the official manual is not the best place for that effort.
I donʼt see why weʼre expending so much effort on an attempted
re-write of something that is absolutely not offensive to anyone whoʼs
not looking to get offended.
Robert
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