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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:38:48 +0100
From:      cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        "eBoundHost: Artur" <artur@eboundhost.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [OT] who wrote this
Message-ID:  <20071126053848.6c52fb51@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>
In-Reply-To: <001301c82fe1$4e4263e0$6701a8c0@mobility>
References:  <001301c82fe1$4e4263e0$6701a8c0@mobility>

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On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:03:30 -0600
"eBoundHost: Artur" <artur@eboundhost.com> wrote:

> speakers.  having hitlers name there does nothing positive for the
> project and polarizes the viewing audience because it offends the
> vast majority of people, 99% of whom are not going to spend an
> evening writing to a mailing list to have the issue fixed.

Without statistics, you can't actually tell for sure:
 1. if this is really a prominent page which is getting a lot of hits.
 2. if visitors noticed this at all or do/did care.
 3. how many visitors were offended, and if it could
    even be a "vast majority" (when is a majority "vast"?).

Just because you care about it (thank you for the heads up),
doesn't mean 99% of other visitors did/do: we just can't
know because there are no or not enough data to tell.

Having said that, the improvement you're suggesting:

> There are far better ways to express the thought than by simply saying
> "hitler quotes".  For instance it can be replaced with "controversial
> persons" or something similar. 

looks quite reasonable to me.

So please send-pr a patch to reword this page and have that
discussed on the appropriate mailing list. questions@ is
probably not the appropriate forum for that.

Thank you,
-cpghost.

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