GNU bug report logs - #61325
30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>

Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 16:02:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>, 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:22:48 +0800

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net> writes:

> Though I do not see why replacing the risky topics with more neutral
> would hurt, given that the quality of a joke being changed does not
> degrade.

Because it amounts to kow-towing in front of the mob of hypersensitive
people.

> What is not clear for me is the word "occasional". How many jokes are
> considered occasional? I think that it is something worth clarifying in
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Humor

Whatever the author of the document felt like at the time it was
written, I think.
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