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From: emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: Procedure for rec.humor.funny debate
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Date: 8 Feb 89 04:40:27 GMT
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Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor
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2 small items of info.

Computerworld Feb 6 p 16 sez "Stanford scraps racist-labeled Unix joke service."
The anti-funny squad is Ralph Gorin, director of academic information resources
at Stanford, and Cliff Johnson, manager of capacity planning at the Stanford
Data Center.  The pro-funny squad is led by John McCarthy, professor of computer
science, who is asking the U to restore the feed "in the tradition of academic
freedom."

Computerworld did its usual botch of unix stuff by referring to the newsgroup
as a "file".

Small question re compilation copyright -- if I read r.h.f. and pull out the
really funny stuff and repost it to another group, can I claim a second 
compilation copyright?  Can I publish a book with this info in it?

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Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan Computing Center