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Date:      Sun, 06 Feb 2005 15:49:10 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgra?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?v?= <des@des.no>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes
Message-ID:  <4206ACF6.1030901@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050206072356.GH49637@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday,  2 February 2005 at 10:18:48 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
>>>From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Smørgrav?=)
>>>Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:16:40 +0100
>>>Sender: owner-cvs-all@freebsd.org
>>>
>>>Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>
>>>>  Modified files:
>>>>    games/fortune/datfiles fortunes
>>>>  Log:
>>>>  Removed 1695 fortunes also found in fortunes2.
>>>
>>>I'd vote for simply merging the two.
>>
>>I'll admit to being old, but at one time fortune2 was supposed to be for
>>longer fortunes while fortune was for one or two line entries. At one
>>time fortune2 had some rather long entries. This is less important now
>>than it was when we were (OK, I was) logging in on an ASR33 and it took
>>8 seconds for a full line of text.
>>
>>Do we really want to merge them? (Probably) But should we think about
>>keeping fortune as a separate file with all messages from fortune2 that
>>are less than about 200 characters. After all, some folks are still on
>>fairly slow links.
> 
> 
> I don't think that anybody is on such a slow link that this makes a
> big difference any more.  If they are, they've probably disabled
> fortune on login anyway.  I'm in favour of merging them.  I'm also in
> favour of adding your historical anecdote (which I didn't know about

I agree with both of these.

Doug



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