Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!gatech!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!aplcen!aplcomm!warper.jhuapl.edu!trn From: trn@warper.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: No more careless crossposts! (was: Re: More Jokes!) Message-ID: <1635@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> Date: 12 Aug 88 14:46:42 GMT References: <324@cadomin.UUCP> <810024@hpsemc.HP.COM> Sender: news@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu Reply-To: trn@aplvax.UUCP (Tony Nardo) Organization: Johns Hopkins University/APL (Baltimore, Md.) Lines: 56 In article <810024@hpsemc.HP.COM> gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz ) writes: >filip@alberta.UUCP (Don Filipchuk) writes: > >> Well, I am heartened to see that there are > >more jokes on the humour group... I especially liked > >the "... ya, but these Fokkers were flying Messershmidts!" (sp) >> >>Warning : Possibly offensive to Jews ? > > Don, this must be a mistake. Possibly you meant to post this to >a different group? > > In case you really are ignorant about this sort of thing, let me >enlighten. This is a newgroup for notes regarding questions about hte >unix operating system. No one appreciates jokes here, and it is bad >taste to post them. Perhaps you meant to post in another group called >rec.humor? > > You are probably going to get flamed for this. Try to be more >careful next time. I hate to defend an obvious lack of consideration, but... The first person who posted a "fun with UNIX" joke that included rec.humor in the distribution list is the real person to blame, not Don. Note that Don's jokes were posted to *BOTH* comp.unix.questions and rec.humor. Most people simply don't think to check the distribution on a followup article. (For that matter, most people don't even think to change the subject line!) Thus, whoever decided to share this joke with rec.humor invited a response from the rec.humor readers. So, whoever was the first person to post a "fun with UNIX" article with cross-posting to rec.humor, consider yourself flamed! :-) Seriously, it doesn't take *that* much effort to post an article twice. If you have to send something to a normally unrelated newsgroup, please send it separately to each group. P.S. About these "fun with UNIX" jokes - I guess they're funny if you run System V, but most of them aren't amusing at all on BSD 4.2. If you post a joke, could you also post the flavor of UNIX used as well? ============================================================================== ARPA: @aplvax.jhuapl.edu:trn@warper \ nardo%str.decnet@capsrv.jhuapl.edu } one of these should work UUCP: {backbone!}aplvax!warper!trn / USnail: c/o Johns Hopkins University/APL, Room 7-53 Johns Hopkins Road Laurel, Md. 20707 "Those who can do, those who can't teach. And those who can't do either become critics. That's why there's so many of them." A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG GOD ==============================================================================