On May 16,  9:10pm, dweiss@alcor.concordia.ca ("Daniel Weiss") wrote:
-- Subject: RE: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package

| The following reply was made to PR misc/33495; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: "Daniel Weiss" <dweiss@alcor.concordia.ca>
| To: <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
| Cc: 
| Subject: RE: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
| Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:01:36 -0400
| 
|  Hi thanks for getting back to me so quickly. The particular quote that I
|  found offensive had something to do with women being dumb or stupid and was
|  very obviously discriminatory to women. Also, the fact that Adolph Hitler
|  was chosen as the man to quote... There are so many great people to quote in
|  the world. Adolph Hitler happens to have killed close to 18 million people
|  all within the last century. I think many of the worlds workers would find
|  it very unpleasant to log onto their workstation and have good morning come
|  from Hitler. Especially people that have suffered the loss of a family
|  member in the holocaust, this is extremely upsetting. I hope this helps
|  clarify the situation.
|  Dan

Well, we have to draw the line somewhere on what is offensive or not.
I am all for free speech and I don't believe in banning books to avoid
poisoning people's minds. I have moved the two offensive fortunes to
fortunes2-o, but I have left the non-offensive ones alone. Remember there
are quotes from Stalin too in the fortunes database, where do we stop?

christos