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bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual

From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 18:57:55 +0200
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On 09/03/2023 16:17, Robert Pluim wrote:

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 16:10:22 +0200, Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>  said:

     Dmitry> On 09/03/2023 06:05, Sam James wrote:
     >> Attached hopefully a good compromise between the
     >> original bug & improving it.

     Dmitry> I like that.

I donʼt. It loses the self-deprecating joke that hackers care about
sex and Emacs, and very little else.


Do they, though?
I'm not a puritan, but the "joke" seems juvenile to me, and simply not very funny.
I get the point about preserving history, but maybe the latest version of the official manual is not the best place for that effort.
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