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From: madavis@cdp.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Democratic Newsgroup ?
Message-ID: <206000001@cdp>
Date: 29 Mar 89 22:59:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!madavis    Mar 29 14:59:00 1989



It would be very interesting to have a joke conference that is
moderated by the opinions of the readers, rather than by one person:
rec.humor.dem, "dem" for democratic.

When the index page for the newsgroup is displayed, it would look
like:

Readers   Score  (+2 to -2)

 41030	  1.722 1 New Punchline to old joke	jem@latcs1.oz.au
 36099	  1.993 2 football			shelley@aimed.UUCP
 20665	  1.873 3 Sales 			qsxy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
 10383	  1.946 4 Mind your Manners		Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.porta
  5521	  1.366 5 Year in Review		wall@tilde.ti.com
  7600	  1.924 6 Rabbinic wisdom		fivel@umd5.umd.edu
    35	  0.251 7 It's chemical                 bobc@killer.DALLAS.TX.US
     7	 -1.822 8 Reagan lives! 		michaelw@microsoft.UUCP
    24	  0.534 9 Little Johnny 		64460v@d1.UUCP

After reading the actual joke, you can press "++", "+", "0", "-", or "--"
to add your opinion to the score.

When a joke is posted to the newsgroup, it is circulated to a few
nearby sites.  If those readers like it, it would make it to more and
more sites.

If it the system works for jokes, we could try it for poetry, surveys,
political discussions, whatever.

Marilyn Davis				arisia.xerox.com!cdp!madavis