Apur-ee.192
net.news
utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!davy
Sat Dec 19 21:00:34 1981
My Two Cent's Worth
<NOW FLAME ENTERING MODE....>
1. To those of you who are sending in submissions like the
one that follows, PLEASE -- send it to ONE NEWSGROUP ONLY!
I am getting really tired of sorting through 300 lines of
stuff, some more "interesting" than others, only to find that
there's 300 MORE lines of the SAME stuff!
2. Well, here goes.......Personally, I have nothing against jokes which
are in bad taste, providing that they are meant to be humorous, and not
malicious. Most of the jokes of this sort which I tell are attacking
stereotypes of certain groups, and not the group itself. The joke about
"Jews don't tip" falls into this category. I would also say that most
(although not all) "nigger" jokes, "rabbi" jokes, "polack" jokes, and
the like fall into this category.
As far as the people who are refusing net.jokes.q are concerned,
I will say this. I really think that it is the wrong way to approach
this matter, i.e., by shutting off net.jokes.q. For one, as somebody
already said, they'll get around it. I must agree with you though, it
would be rather hard to justify money expenditures of this sort. The
best solution would be to simply leave it alone, it'll die out in a few
weeks.
To the "net.db" people, I think that is one of the most sickening
things I've seen on this net so far. While it's tragic and all that, I
really could care less. I assume that was meant as a joke (it had it's
own newsgroup, fer pete's sake!), and a mighty sick one at that. Now,
before I get attacked, I have nothing against "dead-baby" jokes, but
taking a "true-to-life" event and sending it in as humor requires an
extremely warped mind.
In short, as I'm running out of lighter fluid, let me just say
that this network definitely needs to undergo a cleaning, removing
"dead" newsgroups, duplicates, etc. I think, personally, that net.jokes.q
should be abolished, even though I was "for it" in the beginning. This
is not so much because the contents are offensive to me, I can take alot
worse than that. I say it more because it is causing many sites on the
network to begin alienating themselves from that same network. If this
continues, we may need another sort of network map. Instead of one for
the sites, we'll need one for each newsgroup!
<NOW FLAME LEAVING MODE.....>
--Dave Curry
(decvax!pur-ee!davy)
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