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To: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Conclusion of fortune(6) discussion
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In message <1512509473.1313677.1195210352.2DC7580C@webmail.messagingengine=
.com>
, Benno Rice writes:

> I acknowledge the history that the fortune files embody but we=E2=80=99r=
e
>not living in that history any more. We=E2=80=99re living now. The world =
in 2017
>is not the world in 1987 or the world in 1997.

To me this is the most convincing argument for getting rid of the
old jokes:  Fortune(6) as joke-supply only make sense if somebody
humourously competent actively curate the collection of jokes.

Distributing the same old jokes, year after year, release after
release is a ritual, and it is certainly not funny.

We can argue exactly how well curated the freebsd-tips are, but
they are by definition fresh to their intended audience and even I
will admit to having learned something from one or two of them.

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