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utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!floyd!vax135!houxi!houxv!houxs!hansen
Tue Apr 20 10:14:24 1982
Re: Stanford Jokes Crackdown
The Peninsula Times Tribune, Saturday, March 27, 1982, contained an article
entitled "RAUNCHY, RACIST JOKES PURGED FROM STANFORD COMPUTERS" by Richard
Hanner. Here's the scoop:
The SPIRES computer system (used mostly by adminstrators for general
computing and maintained by the Center for Information Technology) contained
a file of jokes split into four categories: clean, dirty, filthy, and sick.
The sick category contained many racist jokes. New employees were required
to access the file as one of their exercises in learning to use the computer
system. One of the new employees in January (of non-white ethnic origin) saw
the file and was rather upset. She told her supervisor, and the file was
eventually removed a month later.
The file had open write permissions, so anyone could add jokes to it. It had
existed on the system for three years. When it was removed, there were over
a thousand entries in it.
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