Re: Pan newsreader on 1.4's extra apps list?

[Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Charles Kerr wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:01:21PM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu> writes:
> > 
> >> On 24 Jan 2001 11:52:10 -0800, Charles Kerr wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I'm the maintainer of the newsreader Pan and was wondering if it would be
> >>> included in the Gnome 1.4 extra apps list.
> >>> 
> >>> Of course I'd like to see it included because I'm its maintainer, but if a
> >>> newsreader should be included, Pan's a good choice: it's the only Unix
> >>> newsreader to score 100% on the Good Newskeeping Seal of Approval, and
> >>> it's the reader included on the Ximian desktop.
> >> 
> >> I've no doubt that Pan is an excellent newsreader, but I have misgivings
> >> about including in the gnome extra apps release until it becomes less
> >> offensive.  Both the domain name of Pan's homesite, and the acronym for
> >> it's name seem inappropraite for such high quality software, and they're
> >> certainly not something that I would feel comfortable recomending to a
> >> friend.  Should these things be changed, I would remove my objections to
> >> including Pan as part of the gnome extra apps release.
> > 
> > If it was called FuckOffAndDie or something I might agree, I don't
> > think the expansion of PAN (which most users will never notice,
> > really) is offensive enough to worry about.
> > 
> > I'd rather stay away from censoring the names of packages in general,
> > if possible.
> > 
> > Ian and Jamin have the final say however.
> 
> Pan's source code hasn't had the expansion of Pan for quite while.
> 
> pan.rebelbase.com now points to the same content as www.superpimp.org.
> The next version of Pan (which will be frozen for translation this week)
> will refer to the pimpless version of the URL.
> 

Problem solved, as far as I'm concerned.

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