From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!npoiv!harpo!floyd!trb Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Title: Re: Jokes in questionable taste Article-I.D.: floyd.419 Posted: Wed Aug 4 10:48:15 1982 Received: Thu Aug 5 01:17:58 1982 I have never seen a submission to ug.anything, and it takes active interest on the part of every netnews administrator on the net to forward ug.all before ug.groups become viable. Posting to a newsgroup when you have a feeling that no one will be able to read it is pretty pointless. I have no interest in submitting ug.test messages and then scouting to all corners of the net to see if they stick. I know that net.messages get everywhere and I can't blame vulgar folks for using them. net.jokes.q was here, but because of the design of group names someone found the name inadequate, and because of the design of group names ug.jokes is not an adequate replacement. The problem is that the administrators at central points have to power to limit traffic, either by choice (by actively refusing to forward groups which they don't like) or by sloth (by not, for instance, putting ug.all in their sys files). Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491