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Re: [Debconf-discuss] DebConf conference policy on profanity



alberto fuentes <pajaro@gmail.com> writes:

> [...]
> [0] Do not use foul language; besides, some people receive the lists
> via packet radio, where swearing is illegal.
> [...]

> Please refrain from using those words in here. Use poo and m'kay instead[1]

> [0] https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
> [1] nsfw?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWkiWtqgOWc

This provision has been ignored on our mailing lists for as long as I've
been a member of the project.  There was some recent discussion of the
packet radio reference that concluded that this justification was rather
dubious.  I wonder if we should take it out of that document as well,
although this is not the right place to talk about that.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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