[rain1@airmail.cc] Delete abortion joke
Rafal Luzynski
digitalfreak@lingonborough.com
Wed May 9 19:56:00 GMT 2018
8.05.2018 17:54 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> [...]
> I think it's much more obvious from being in documentation for "abort"
> that it's about abortion, than that it's about a US-specific gag rule
True, I confirm this.
> ("Federal" is the only cue I see there to it being something US-specific,
> but is hardly unique to one country [...]
"Federal" may also apply to Germany and Russia, probably also to more
countries which I can't remember now. It's easy to guess this is about
USA but there is always an uncertainty like "wait, maybe it's not about
USA?"
> I think being so US-specific - and, beyond that, relying on knowledge of a
> particular US rule - is by itself sufficient justification for not having
> this joke in the manual; [...]
This is similar to what I wrote previously. Thank you for writing this
in a more comprehensible way.
Regards,
Rafal
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