Fortune Program -Moving->RE: Wanda is broken

[Ziga Mahkovec]

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 17:52 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 09:44 -0500, Senthil_OR at Dell.com wrote:
> > This brings up a very important topic for discussion.
> > Namely why is Fedora not shipping fortune. 
> 
> historic reasons; some of the fortune quotes were not seen as
> politically correct or even offensive for some users/customers, and
> people somehow get really upset by that. (Remember the treads about that
> screen saver that made shapes that someone "recognized" as being one of
> his body parts; things like this get people really upset and thus the
> alternative to not shipping fortune is shipping it but vetting every
> single fortune text as seen from several different cultures)

$ fortune
			DELETE A FORTUNE!

Don't some of these fortunes just drive you nuts?!  Wouldn't you like
to see some of them deleted from the system?  You can!  Just mail to
"fortune" with the fortune you hate most, and we MIGHT make sure it
gets expunged.

$

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Ziga