From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!ihuxi!otto Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Dumb Jokes again and again . . . Article-I.D.: ihuxi.171 Posted: Thu Jun 24 18:16:49 1982 Received: Mon Jun 28 03:28:52 1982 Reply-To: huxi!otto I guess when a new joke hits a site, 3 or 4 people rush as fast as they can to be the first to put it on the net. Unfortunately, they don't check to see if they got beat ... they just send the joke out, then read the news to see if they were the first. I think this explains why we are seeing several cases of the same joke coming from the same site three or four times within minutes of each other. George Otto Bell Labs, Indian Hill ----------------------