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From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: :-ROT-13 and offensive "humor")
Message-ID: <441@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 12:35:25 EST
Article-I.D.: ucdavis.441
Posted: Fri Dec  6 12:35:25 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 20:20:13 EST
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Organization: University of California, Davis
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> I object to being offended by some of what goes on in net.jokes. I think
> the people that insert jokes about blind people, gays, people dying with
> AIDS, cancer victims, Leon Klinghoffer, Ethiopians, poor (?) Jewish girls,
> dead small children, past and present political officials, ethnic people,
> Texas A&M students, Irish (well, maybe), and others should be shot and
> hung out to dry for making sensitive people like myself go through hitting
> the control-x key before we can be offended! I think that the trouble you
> bastards put us through before we can see what your sick minds contain
> should come back to you ten-fold. I am sick and tired of having to decode
> your little secret jokes which you obviously try to keep people like me from
> seeing. Remember, our SAVIOUR, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, who loves us all as
> brothers and sisters doesn't have to use control-x to un-rot13 your filth,
> why should we?

You _M_U_S_T belong to the moral majority, for they are the
only people who try the be offended, then complain.  The WHOLE IDEA
behind the use of the rotaion is to NOT OFFEND people.  If you see
a subject line that says "Offensive to gays (ROT13)" or if you see a
posting that looks like "Lbhe pbpx znxrf zl chffl vgpu!", then hit
the 'n' key so you don't have to read it.  By the way, why are you using
control-x to decode it?  "D" works much better.  Anyway, no one is
trying to _h_i_d_e our "secret jokes" from the likes of you God loving
people.  Remember, no one is forcing you to read net.jokes.

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-- Kevin Chu
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