Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxle.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!whuxle!otto From: otto@whuxle.UUCP (George V.E. Otto) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Rotation and lines that wont Message-ID: <446@whuxle.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 00:46:07 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxle.446 Posted: Fri Jun 15 00:46:07 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 00:38:36 EDT References: <322@ames-lm.UUCP> <934@eosp1.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany Lines: 20 I too have trouble with the caeser decoding on our netnews. It seems that short lines are sometimes not decoded, meaning that many short punch lines are left unintelligible, as in Q: What did the moron say to the ethnic as they were both falling off the Empire State building? N: Tket mel a fqpei! My question is this, why does this happen on many different jokes. This would appear to be a problem with the decoding, because the jokes that have this problem come from many different sources. Can anyone explain this problem? How common is it. Does anyone have a fix for it? By the way, the netnews I use is running on a VAX running BSD 4.1. George Otto AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany ------------------------