Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site npois.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!npois!jay From: jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: re improving net.jokes Message-ID: <400@npois.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 19:54:25 EDT Article-I.D.: npois.400 Posted: Tue Aug 20 19:54:25 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 01:24:18 EDT Organization: ATTIS, Neptune, NJ Lines: 21 When I first got on the net nine months ago, I had high hopes for the quality of humor that would be on net.jokes. A little later I went through a period of frustration. The quality was pretty bad. Really though it has improved quite a bit since January (the worst since I've been here). There are almost no form feeds, very few grade school type jokes. Granted there is little humor of real distinction, but think of it as digging through an ash can looking for parts of a sculpture. We could all spend a few moments trying to come up with something really creative and original, and consciously try to improve the quality of the material here, people might follow our example. But it could all be for naught since in two weeks, the net will have a whole new batch of college, and prep-school people on for the very first time. If you really want to exchange original humor, why not just get a mail list together of people that want to exchange it with each other. That way you'll never have to read the net.jokes.