Re: G3C announces: GML, Gopher and XHTML

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> Seriously, you all behave like you havent seen an april fools day
> joke.(afore mentioned humour)
>
>
Since when did April's Fools jokes include racial slurs, culturally
insensitive material and prejudice?

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On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 3:45 PM barana . <[email protected]> wrote:

> Seriously, you all behave like you havent seen an april fools day
> joke.(afore mentioned humour)
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> *From:* John Goerzen <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Saturday, 3 April 2021 11:44 AM
> *To:* Ivan J. <parazyd-/[email protected]>
> *Cc:* Chris Brannon <chris-zYV+vkQTyN5VVL4EKv/[email protected]>;
> [email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: G3C announces: GML, Gopher and XHTML
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> On Fri, Apr 02 2021, Ivan J. wrote:
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> > Sad to say, you also seem to be ignoring all the actual effort
> > Bitreich is doing to help and improve Gopher and its adoption.
>
> Spreading racism helps nothing and nobody.  It has no place in
> this community.
>
> Writing Gopher patches to software is great, but that doesn't mean
> that racism and sexism must accompany it.
>
> I want to assure everyone, lurkers and regular participants, that
> Christoph Lohmann does not speak for this community, that racism
> has no place in this or any other Open Source community, and that
> you are not alone in your feeling of revulsion at it.
>
> I have no respect for racists and no desire to work with people
> that seek to use technical lists to spread racism, regardless of
> what their Free Software activities are.  Free Software is about
> treating people ethically and making the world a better place, and
> racism and sexism are antithetical to these aims.
>
> - John
>
>