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From: dce@tekecs.UUCP (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: This group
Message-ID: <1698@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 10:23:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekecs.1698
Posted: Wed Jul 20 10:23:40 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jul-83 20:06:05 EDT
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About a year and a half ago, people started criticizing people who
sent dirty jokes (Pre-ROT13) to net.jokes. The problem was that the people
discussing the offending jokes were using net.jokes to do the discussing.
Then there came the people who criticized the criticizers for using
net.jokes for discussing jokes.

Thus, net.jokes.d (the 'd' is for "discussions") was born.

Once rot13 was accepted, the traffic in net.jokes.d falls off.
That is, until people who are new to the net start asking what
this group is for.

			Class dismissed,
			David Elliott