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From: naftoli@aecom.UUCP (Robert Berlinger)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.jokes.d
Subject: very few jokes in net.jokes
Message-ID: <290@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Dec-83 17:41:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  5 17:41:23 1983
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There seems to be more and more non-jokes in net.jokes and to me
this is very disturbing.  I know I am treading on old ground
however I thought of a possible fix.  Would it be
possible/desirable to have followups to net.jokes automatically
go to net.jokes.d? This is really what net.jokes.d is for.  The
fact that net.jokes.d has been compared to /dev/null in
readership indicates to me that most people simply do not care.
Those people that ocassionally are offended by a joke need not
announce that fact to the world.  Sending a nasty reply should do
the trick.

90% of the people I have talked to want to read jokes, nothing
else.  And they resent having to skim through 10 flames, and 20
followups (which have no meaning without the original present)
just to read *one* joke!!

Does anyone agree?  Has this been proposed before?

Robert Berlinger
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