Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site sesame.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!talcott!sesame!slerner From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.news.group Subject: Re: Re: tired of Patty O'Furniture, the N top lies, LBJS, unrotted offensive jokes, et al? Message-ID: <395@sesame.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 21:57:04 EST Article-I.D.: sesame.395 Posted: Mon Nov 11 21:57:04 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 08:37:32 EST References: <973@lll-crg.ARpA> <49@calma.UUCP> Organization: Lotus Development Corp Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.jokes.d:1206 net.news.group:4485 > Indeed, is there someway of "educating" the new users on the state > of the "jokes world". Should we adopt the style of net.announce > of posting the canonical JAP, light bulb, dead celebrity, elephant, ... > jokes several times each year so everyone can know where the > people who have been here for a while are coming from. > > A moderated jokes system might be nice: someone could handle Father > Goose stories and someone could be the ultimate keeper of JAP jokes. > Or if not moderated, the above periodic posting of "canonical" joke > sets would cut down a lot of the posting of old jokes. > Great idea. If there were periodic repostings of the various canonical collections (with updates), the main problem, that of dealing with repeat material, would be solved. -- Opinions expressed are public domain, and do not belong to Lotus Development Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner {genrad|ihnp4|ima}!wjh12!talcott!sesame!slerner {cbosgd|harvard}!talcott!sesame!slerner talcott!sesame!slerner@harvard.ARPA