From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:00:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87y1oyor5f.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87ttzy7pg1.fsf@localhost> <87wn4u6xj0.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24411"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Po Lu , yantar92@posteo.net, rms@gnu.org, 61325@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 15 17:01:13 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pSKDY-0006Df-W8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Wed, 15 Feb 2023 08:00:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:34:02 -0500") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:255739 Archived-At: >>>>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:34:02 -0500, Stefan Kangas said: Stefan> Richard Stallman writes: >> > > 3.15 Exiting Gnus has >> > > >> > > Note: >> > > >> > > Miss Lisa Cannifax, while sitting in English class, felt he= r feet >> > > go numbly heavy and herself fall into a hazy trance as the = boy >> > > sitting behind her drew repeated lines with his pencil acro= ss the >> > > back of her plastic chair. >> > > >> > > I am not sure if it is a joke. I only feel confused about what >> > > information this note is trying to convey. Also, at least one ot= her user >> > > find this section insulting. >>=20 >> I can't see what in this a reader might consider insulting. >> I can't see what in this a reader might consider funny. >> I can't make sense of it at all. >>=20 >> Would someone who understands it please explain the joke? Stefan> Since I also couldn't make heads or tails of it, I deleted that Stefan> paragraph. I guess if someone thinks it's hilarious, they'll c= hastise Stefan> me publicly, and then they can hopefully also explain what the = joke or Stefan> even intended meaning of that paragraph is. One of the more enjoyable things in life is reading some of Lars=CA=BC whimsy in the Gnus manual, which I doubt is meant to be fully understood. It saddens me that the reaction to it is to remove it. (and to whoever it was that found that bit insulting, I can only say "what?!") Robert --=20