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30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual

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Message #167 received at 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>, 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:47:59 +0000

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> This seems to be trying to create humor by simply referring to sex.
>> I "get the joke," but it doesn't seem to be very funny.  This part
>
> If you replace ``sex'' with, say, ``kayaking'', the meaning of the joke
> stays unchanged.

Will it be ok to do such replacement?

> The joke is that it is possible to sort completely unrelated newsgroup
> into categories.

This sounds like a technical information being encoded into the joke. I
did not get this information while reading because I did not understand
the joke. 

>> I presume the Gnus manual explains what a kill file is, for readers
>> who do not know.  If not, we should add that.
>
> It explains both what kill and score files are, and why score files
> should be preferred instead.

May you please point me to the place in Gnus manual that explains what
kill files are?

I only found the following, but there is no explanation what kill files mean:

    8.13 Kill Files
    ===============
    
    Gnus still supports those pesky old kill files.  In fact, the kill file
    entries can now be expiring, which is something I wrote before Daniel
    Quinlan thought of doing score files, so I’ve left the code in there.

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