Gumby@AI.AI.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/04/87)
There has been some controversy over a file in the latest release of gnu
emacs. The following file ``meese.el'' should provide some protection
for those of tender sensibilities.
-------------------- lisp/meese.el --------------------
(defun protect-innocence-hook ()
(if (and (equal (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name) "sex.1")
(not (y-or-n-p "Are you over 18? ")))
(progn
(clear-visited-file-modtime)
(setq buffer-file-name (concat (file-name-directory buffer-file-name)
"celibacy.1"))
(erase-buffer)
(insert-file-contents buffer-file-name t)
(rename-buffer (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)))))
(setq find-file-hooks (cons 'protect-innocence-hook find-file-hooks))
-------------------- etc/celibacy.1 --------------------
CELIBACY(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual CELIBACY(1)
NAME
celibacy - don't have sex
SYNOPSIS
celibacy
DESCRIPTION
Does nothing worth mentioning.Karl.Kleinpaste@mit-eddie.UUCP (03/04/87)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 87 05:00 EST From: David Vinayak Wallace <Gumby@AI.AI.MIT.EDU> There has been some controversy over a file in the latest release of gnu emacs. The following file ``meese.el'' should provide some protection for those of tender sensibilities. Oh, shut up, Mr Wallace. There exist those of us who think that civilized people ought to behave in a civilized manner. Tacky, crude, and offensive discussions of sexuality do not belong in the official distributions of a supposedly professional organization, sexual preferences being utterly and totally irrelevant. Your attempt to sleaze it past everyone again by accusing people of (imagined) "tender sensibilities" just demonstrates your lack of civility. Anyone who finds humor in the topics of rape, pedophilia, and necrophilia (-r, -P, and -n "options") needs psychiatric help. There are few things that disgust me more than people who find rape to be humorous. The man page comment that it "overrides target user's protections" says more than any defense you can make for its presence in the file.