"Dylan Trotter" <trotterdylan@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:cjjtc1$243$1@sea.gmane.org...
I've never felt the urge to post the development mailing list despite being a long time reader, however this was enough to bring me out of anonymity. Chalk it up to my flammable sense of political incorrectness.
The example in question was funny. I think anybody offended by it most probably lacks sense of humor. Nevertheless let's keep it out of boost. Personally I prefer to keep out any unrelated subjects, even in examples. There are numerous forums for political jokes you can use if you want to share funny observations. I think that Boost is inappropriate forum for them: any kind of non-universal cultural references may present a problem for international audience; time plays tricks with "current" events. I fully support Jeff's decision. Do you feel that I am wrong and overreacting? Count posts in boost.devel, which talk about "censorship", "political views", and so on, but next to nothing about substance --- iostreams library, which _technical_ merits were supposed to be reviewed. Do we really need them in boost.devel? Thanks, Eugene PS: Putting my money where my mouth is I am not going to post in this thread again.