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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?
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Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 21:57:04 EST
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> 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.
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