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From: GA.JRG@forsythe.stanford.edu (June Genis)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Procedure for rec.humor.funny debate
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Date: 8 Feb 89 17:14:47 GMT
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In article <8662@mailgw.cc.umich.edu>,
emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
>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".

Sounds like CW botched a number of things if they dragged Cliff
Johnson into it.  While Cliff is the person who has been busy trying
to sue the defense department over the use of computers in
launch-on-warning nuclear defense systems, he had utterly nothing to
do with the attack in RHF.  The other "bad guy" is John Sack,
director of the Data Center.  I put that in quotes though because I
don't personally believe that either Sack or Gorin approve of the
action.  Their boss, VP for Information Resources Bob Street,
appears willing to let them take the heat though as no formal
statements have been issued from a higher level.

/June