Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:49:53 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>,
 PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Inappropriate blog for the front page?
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:54:03 +0100
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:


> > I'm not referring to the content - I wouldn't want to suggest
> > stopping anyone making valid criticism. I'm referring to the
> > language which is almost certainly offensive to many.
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> Hmm. I obviously live in a very different society than you do,
> because I don't know of anybody who'd be offended by "pissed of".

There are two sides to this:

1. Those who will be offended

There is definitely those who will find this offensive. It is
considered a bit of a swear word, albeit not nearly as much as others.

2. Those who will feel it is unprofessional.

I fall into #2 but I can sure as hell understand why PostgreSQL pisses
some people off and something you just want to shout about it.

> There are a lot of much worse ways of saying that that would offend
> people, but I don't see this as one.
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> But that could be just me :-) My vote is still to keep it, but I
> certainly understand that others can see it differently.

What this comes down to is this, how "correct" do we want to be?
Personally I feel the following words we can probably let slide:

Damn
Hell
Piss/es ;)

There are certainly much worse words we could be publishing.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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