Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Lighten up : this is net.jokes! Message-ID: <780@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 22:33:19 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.780 Posted: Sun Mar 10 22:33:19 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 21:11:22 EST References: <1418@ut-ngp.UUCP> <4206@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Followup-To: net.jokes.d Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 35 [ beep beep ] (Recently) : >In the nettiquete document that lists all the jokes you shouldn't post, >someone should add a line that says not to post anything you just read >in a fortune. Save us all a lot of annoyance. A couple of articles have appeared lately, getting on the case of a poster for posting something that wasn't "original" in someone's opinion. "Clone of My Own" may be in some people's fortune files; it is also something people have heard sung, read in science fiction filk-song books or sf magazines, etc. Similarly, "Deteriorata" may have been written by National Lampoon, but it has long since passed into popular culture. I've seen it on posters, t-shirts, and 100th-generation photocopies. It is rare that I have seen either of these given author credit in ANY form. It is quite likely that posters don't know the origin that you do. Unless you wish to claim clairvoyant powers, please don't assume you know where someone heard a joke. Signature files often contain lines like "from the fingers of ...". These should not be interpreted as claims of authorship in the case of net.jokes; jokes are commonly assumed to be the common property of a culture. All those lines represent is the postnews software dutifully including something the poster wrote into his or her .signature file months ago. Ok? After all, this isn't someone posting the Unix Kernel in net.sources and claiming they cooked it up for their OS class.... -- "Hey, check it OUT! I'm leaping tall buildings with a single BOUND! Stay right where you ARE! I've gotta locate a SPEEDING BULLET!" -- Ambush Bug Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick