Aresearch.207 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!eagle!mhtsa!research!rtm Mon Jan 18 06:13:27 1982 net.jokes.q Maybe net.jokes.q is only gone on the Holmdel machines - I just got one today. (Maybe it was leftover; I don't read my news very often.) Although some of the jokes there were inappropriate (by the standards of everyone I have told them to), the effect of removing the group may be to move all the merely nauseating (but funny) jokes out into the open, into net.jokes, while suppressing only the really nasty ones. In addition, it seems to me that Netnews (if that is its name) is for the benifit of the users, not affirmative action types, and I didn't hear of any voting going on about it. This is all hot air if nothing happened, of course, adding to the growing volume of net.db/net.jokes.q commentary that always seemed more interesting than the actual jokes in question. Robert Morris ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.