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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: "Offensive" jokes, & such bilge...
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Date: Sun, 13-May-84 00:30:34 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 13 00:30:34 1984
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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What I find offensive is the people who made such a fuss about that
silly BLKTRAN thing that shell still, to this day, can not permit
their users to read all the newsgroups.  The convention of rotating
jokes is quite enough.  If somebody posts something you don't like,
why don't you send them mail suggesting they should have rotated it?
Is that just not as satisfying as trying to be the censor to the world
and imposing your myopia on everybody else?

As for the gay blade joke, most of you who have protested it have done
so so ineptly you've made the original poster look like a hero, when
nobody would have paid much attention to it if you'd just let it be.
(Both "real men" and "gay blade" are such unreal stereotypes that who
really gives a flying fuck if they're considered mutually exclusive?)
If you're going to protest something, at least try to do so in such
a way that you sound like you understand what you're writing about.
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 USA
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