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Subject: Re: Re: Offensiveness (long article) - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 24-Nov-83 00:07:15 EST
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uokvax!andree    Nov 15 15:54:00 1983

Might I make a suggestion: Leave the thing alone, it works fine now.

Currently, net.jokes carries jokes that offend some people. This may not
be a desirable situation, but it's hard to fix. Net.jokes would be empty
if it carried only jokes that wouldn't offend `the most sensitive reader.'
As such, I think that some people ARE going to be offended. The question
is where to draw the line. The answer is, of course, to let the submitters
decide. If someone submits something that a majority find offensive, DELUGE
him in flames, and maybe he'll think twice next time. For instance, whoever
submitted the BLKTRAN article will probably NOT submit such a thing again.

Of course, you can also post flames about offensive jokes to the net, in which
case I hope YOU get deluged in fire - so that you'll think twice about posting
such things to the net. Hopefully, eventually, things will settle down to a
compromise that we can live with, with some people getting offended by jokes
and others getting offended by articles about offensive jokes.

	Freedom for all
	<mike