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30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual

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From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>
To: 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, yantar92 <at> posteo.net
Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:41:08 +0600

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Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 3.16 Group Topics
>
>     If you read lots and lots of groups, it might be convenient to group
>     them hierarchically according to topics.  You put your Emacs groups over
>     here, your sex groups over there, and the rest (what, two groups or so?)
>     you put in some misc section that you never bother with anyway.  You can
>     even group the Emacs sex groups as a sub-topic to either the Emacs
>     groups or the sex groups—or both!  Go wild!
>
> I do understand the rest as well.
>
>> Agree. My other points remain. In particular, about joking on sex topic,
>> which is present in the same paragraph.
>
> There are such newsgroups on the Usenet, so why would cracking jokes
> about them be any different from cracking jokes about any other
> newsgroup?
>
> Seriously, anyone who finds that joke offensive needs to grow up and get
> a life!

There are many who are still growing up.  Is GNUS only intended for
adults?  I don't think so.  But still that sex topic included.

However, the text at the very end of the Top node of Texinfo manual is
even more offensive (for many):

     Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good;
     and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.  —Dick Brandon

Why a few GNU manuals tend to be for adults?

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