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Autah-cs.143 net.news,net.db,net.jokes.q utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!utah-cs!lepreau Fri Dec 18 15:00:26 1981 Re: wire service stuff; net.jokes.q issues least, if someone wants to feed stuff straight into the network from the wires, then he or she has the responsibility to make sure that it's done right, i.e. no duplications. There've been quite enuf lengthy repetitions of that damn 'tots' story. It's not even interesting! And (the first time) I was looking forward to another exciting dead baby joke appropriate for net.jokes.q... aw shucks. Whoever is responsible for sending that stuff out from alice (and i know it ain't daemon), clean up your software!

W.r.t. that newsgroup, the powers-that-be here (myself), have similar concerns to cbosg!dale's, and are also considering shutting it off. It is incredibly naive to think that a clear distinction can be drawn between ethnic jokes and racist ones. Come on, join the 80's. Use of a generic epithet such as 'ethnic' or 'martian' may be sufficient, but 'moron', for example, is obviously totally unsuitable.

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