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Article #1396Re: Those Running Puns.
From: Geoff Loker
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1986 15:13
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1986 15:13
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In article <263@vu-vlsi.UUCP> frodo@vu-vlsi.UUCP ( middle-earth ) writes:
>
> I feel very strongly that there should be some sort of warning
>either in the "Subject" or "Keywords" header of all those running
>puns. It doesn't take anytime to add this to a followup and it would
>save a many people a LOT of aggravation.
>
> what do the rest of you think?
It won't work. I use rn to read the net -- among other things, it has
a neat little feature called 'kill' to junk all articles which have a
certain subject. Those people who perpetuate the running puns know
about such features and deliberately change the subject line to get
around them. In other words, they *want* their addition to a running
pun to be read (or at least seen) by others, so they aren't going to
make it any easier for people to skip over it.
I agree that the running "jokes" are/can be aggravating, and I wish
that there were some way to skip them easily, but I don't think that
their perpetuators will be of any help.
--
Geoff Loker
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcsri!utai!gkloker From: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Those Running Puns. Message-ID: <1470@utai.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 10:13:36 EST Article-I.D.: utai.1470 Posted: Fri Mar 21 10:13:36 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 10:46:59 EST References: <263@vu-vlsi.UUCP> Reply-To: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 31 Keywords: add a Warning. Summary: It won't work