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AbiWord Weekly News #103

Submitted by stro on Sun, 2002-08-11 23:34. AbiWord

This has been a week full of surprises, and not like the nice kind, where a bank error is sided in your favour. This has been more along the lines of the revenue service wonders why your forms are in crayon, whether "Sparky" is really your six year old son or if your mistress can really count as a dependent. Luckily for us, we have Arthur Anderson and Aberdeen! Abisource went into infinite fcsk mode, and on the second day, asked, "Hey, man, this is wrong for some reason, and where do all these packets keep coming from?" It rebooted and life got better. Take heart, it didn't stop the hackers from hacking or the users from abusing. It did delay AWN for a few days.

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Update:AWN for this week is also out, get it here.

Re: bad taste

Submitted by praxim on Mon, 2002-08-12 16:23.

This is why this board needs a moderation system.

His people are scared to death of him. Pick up a newspaper sometime. This is a man who will not hesitate to kill his own family, and he's backed by an army.

This comment in the AbiWord newsletter was tactless because the newsletter gives the impression that it is intended to be a professional or at least semi-professional document addressed to a wide (i.e. global) audience. While this might be funny in front of your friends, who will either agree with you or know you're being facetious, it's possible and likely that someone out there will not think hostility toward others (particularly innocent civilians) is humorous.

Think before you speak.

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