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From: neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Saving Rotated jokes (a flame, really)
Message-ID: <189@weitek.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 18:56:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: weitek.189
Posted: Thu May 23 18:56:43 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 26-May-85 00:37:59 EDT
Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca.
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Keywords: He missed may point...

From ...!bu-cs!ccc Thu May 23 13:14:29 1985

> No doubt you are being beseiged by responses but here's a much
> less painful method:
>
> (23 lines) More? [ynq] D13 | cat > joke
> 		       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> this will save an un-rotted article in file 'joke'.
> 
> Cameron C. Carson
> Distributed Systems Group
> Boston University ACC

If `postnews' asks if you want to rotate a joke when posting to net.jokes,
why doesn't `readnews' ask if you want to *un-rotate* the saved joke if you are
reading net.jokes? I posted the article as a challenge to would-be hackers
to fix `readnews' so that it is symmetrical with `postnews'. Besides, where is
this documented? ("Of course, you wiper of other people's bottoms, you can pipe
it thru frobnitz into foo...") This is an annoying workaround for incomplete
software, in my humble opinion. That's like saying "If you bend this board a
certain way, then the computer won't crash..."
 Grrrrrrr....

-Neal B.