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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: nginx geoip out of sync
To:
Otto Cooper <otto.cooper@proton.me>, <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:41:51 +0100

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don't be an arse.

if you can't give the information that was requested we can't help.

-- 
  Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.

On 25 June 2026 00:10:03 Otto Cooper <otto.cooper@proton.me> wrote:

> I keep forgetting that US readers are used to and therefore expect explicit 
> context. This may sound as an insult to their intelligence, as one needs to 
> address them as if they were children or slow adults, but sociological 
> literature demonstrates that the amount of requided context does have 
> geographical variants. I am referring to the magnificent work by Erin Mayer 
> in her book "The culture map". So, whenever my irrational mind screams 
> "stupid" in the general direction of an US person, my rational mind 
> intervenes, recalling that it is not their fault but their culture that 
> trained them that way. And therefore, when in absence of context one would 
> have autonomously inferred the missing information using the most plausible 
> defaults, one finds himself forced to state the  obvious, at great loss of 
> time and with a heavy heart. Yes, the latest stable version was used, and 
> the problem is easily reproduced by trying to install the named package.
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> On Wednesday, 06/24/26 at 09:11 Otto Cooper <otto.cooper@proton.me> wrote:
> Geoip is not up to par, causing failure to update nginx with cve patches.