Hi Arthur, We have a saying in Danish, "go for the ball, not the man"
Take it easy, jonasbn On 16/11/2009, at 18.36, Arthur Corliss wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Jonas Brømsø Nielsen wrote: > >> Aloha, >> >> Most cultures/countries have a redneck equivalent, so it is not totally >> wasted on us non-us... anyway. I say if we have offended anybody, we remove >> the offending distribution. It is in the acme namespace, so it will not >> create a lot of fuss removing it. >> >> The author has the choice and freedom of distributing via other channels, >> but we as a community might have to be more democratic about it, so I say it >> goes. As for the apology, I think we could just get by with a friendly and >> polite email, informing the offended person of our actions. >> >> Going into a deeper analysis of the nature of humor and cultural differences >> is a waste of time, CPAN is an international resource and therefore we >> should act accordingly. The Acme namespace is still open and welcoming to >> all the crazy experiments, but we have to play nice at the same time. >> >> jonasbn > > Personally, I believe that anyone who's wasted more than 30 seconds on this > entire discussion should get a life. It's more than obvious what the author > was satirizing and no one has an inalienable right to not be offended. > > If you don't like it, fine, blog about it, complain to your friends. But > let the rest of us move on with matters of some actual import. Quit trying > to be the politically correct thought police of the world. > > --Arthur Corliss > Live Free or Die
