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From: neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Saving rotated jokes (a flame, really)
Message-ID: <191@weitek.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 19:15:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: weitek.191
Posted: Thu May 23 19:15:36 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 26-May-85 21:07:39 EDT
Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca.
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Keywords: He missed my point...

> 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

I knew somebody would bite...
I posted the article as a challenge to would-be hackers to fix `readnews'
so that it is symmetrical to `postnews' in its treatment of articles in
net.jokes. I grow weary of responses of "Of course, you ignorant lowlife,
you can pipe it thru frobnitz into foo..." Spare us mere mortals from having
to dig through the source code to find an undocumented feature, especially on
programs that should be easy to use, like `readnews'.

-Neal B.