Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hplabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amd!hplabs!davis From: davis@hplabs.UUCP (Jim Davis) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Stop the Repeat Offenders ! Message-ID: <1694@hplabs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 06:09:45 EST Article-I.D.: hplabs.1694 Posted: Wed Mar 6 06:09:45 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 14:20:28 EST References: <372@wnuxb.UUCP> <470@tellab1.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 18 > I've got an idea! (and this is no joke either, son) > Why not include all these repeated jokes in that stuff in > net.announce.newusers that keeps on cycling every 2 weeks or so? > -etan I don't think it would work. I have such a collection. It included at one point ~ 2 M bytes of jokes (~ 1200 of them). I am quite sure that no one would consent even to circulating the best 300 lightbulb jokes, much less the rest of the slush fund. The best we could do is list categories to stay away from, but then, due to human perversity, we would be buried in repitions of old jokes (as we are). -- ---------------------------------- Jim Davis (James W Davis) Email: {any_of_the_biggies} !hplabs!davis Arpa: davis%hp-labs@csnet-relay ----------------------------------