Subject: RE: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/17/2006 13:50:04
The following reply was made to PR misc/33495; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: "Daniel Weiss" <dweiss@alcor.concordia.ca>,
<gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>, <misc-bug-people@NetBSD.org>,
<gnats-admin@NetBSD.org>, <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org>
Cc:
Subject: RE: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:47:38 -0400
On May 17, 9:27am, dweiss@alcor.concordia.ca ("Daniel Weiss") wrote:
-- Subject: RE: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
| Good morning,
|
| "And that if you are, you'll just quit using -o rather
| than give us grief about it, okay?)"
|
| I'd like to start out by saying I'm not trying to give anybody grief. I
| e-mailed a support database for support. This isn't about giving YOU grief
| it was that I clearly had a problem with some of the quotes in the database.
| Currently we have stopped using the fortune package. I was hoping to find a
| way to simply remove the harmful quotes from the database. There are several
| hundred people on our campus that use the software that implements the
| fortune package.
|
|
| "A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman.
| Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who
| interfered with my work."
| -- Adolf Hitler
|
| "A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing --
| tender, sweet, and stupid."
| -- Adolf Hitler
|
|
| A perfect example of something offensive...
|
As mentioned in the previous mail, those two quotes have been moved in
the offensive database.
christos