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From: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Those Running Puns.
Message-ID: <1470@utai.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 10:13:36 EST
Article-I.D.: utai.1470
Posted: Fri Mar 21 10:13:36 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 10:46:59 EST
References: <263@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Lines: 31
Keywords: add a Warning.
Summary: It won't work

In article <263@vu-vlsi.UUCP> frodo@vu-vlsi.UUCP ( middle-earth ) writes:
>
>	I feel very strongly that there should be some sort of warning
>either in the "Subject" or "Keywords" header of all those running
>puns.  It doesn't take anytime to add this to a followup and it would
>save a many people a LOT of aggravation. 
>
>	what do the rest of you think?

It won't work.  I use rn to read the net -- among other things, it has
a neat little feature called 'kill' to junk all articles which have a
certain subject.  Those people who perpetuate the running puns know
about such features and deliberately change the subject line to get
around them.  In other words, they *want* their addition to a running
pun to be read (or at least seen) by others, so they aren't going to
make it any easier for people to skip over it.

I agree that the running "jokes" are/can be aggravating, and I wish
that there were some way to skip them easily, but I don't think that
their perpetuators will be of any help.

-- 
Geoff Loker
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
M5S 1A4

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