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RE: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)
- From: "Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:03:08 -0500
- Subject: RE: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)
> Yes but it *can* work just after you install it but before
> you ever run
> it! This part seems like a disclaimer if I've ever saw one:
>
> -o Choose only from potentially offensive aphorisms. Please,
> please,
> please request a potentially offensive fortune if
> and only if you
> believe, deep down in your heart, that you are
> willing to be
> offended. (And that if you are, you'll just quit
> using -o rather
> than give us grief about it, okay?)
>
> And you don't have to install it - you can research it! See
> http://www.rt.com/man/fortune.6.html
Uh-huh. And the problem reported is (at least in part) that
even if you don't use -o when calling fortune, you may end up
seeing 'potentially offensive aphorisms'.
It's a bug.
-Samrobb
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