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> For some reason unknown to myself and anyone I can track down here, net.jokes
> has disappeared from our site! Are we the only site that this has happened to,
> or is this net-wide? Nobody at our computer center is talking.
>

For the last month or so, I've been unable to read net.jokes
here in Short Hills.  When I try, I get a message saying 
'bitmap too small for net.jokes.'  Nobody in my computer
center seems to know anything about this, either.

In article <134@rruxd.UUCP> vch@rruxd.UUCP (Kerro Panille) writes:
>For some reason unknown to myself and anyone I can track down here, net.jokes
>has disappeared from our site! Are we the only site that this has happened to,
>or is this net-wide? Nobody at our computer center is talking.
>
>Anyone out there know about this?
>
>--

Yes.  A worm got onto the net.  (The kind that gives hackers a bad name.)
Tell your system administrator to find the article in 'control' that referrs
to the removal of net.jokes - there are a few bogus things in the header.
(Is it ihnp4 or 4pnhi?)

<Oh oh here it comes.  Watch out boy, it'll chew you up! \
Oh oh here it comes.  The LINE EATER!  [Line eater]>

In article <134@rruxd.UUCP>, vch@rruxd.UUCP (Kerro Panille) writes:
>For some reason unknown to myself and anyone I can track down here, net.jokes
>has disappeared from our site! Are we the only site that this has happened to,
>or is this net-wide? Nobody at our computer center is talking.
>Anyone out there know about this?
>Vince Hatem
>Bell Communications Research

I think a huge, secret rmgroup of net.jokes went out a couple of weeks ago.
It vanished from my site (fed from ltuxa) too.  I saw one glancing allusion to
this (after the fact) in net.news.admin; I am kind of surprised that I
have not seen any consternation expressed there.  Methinks an efficient
muffler was put on any discussion or protests and/or those who were
enjoying net.jokes feel too guilty about the net cost to publicly beg for
it back :-).  I sure as heck didn't see any discussion about the pending
rmgroup in the weeks before, and I have been keeping a fairly close watch on
net.news[.*].  No doubt it has cut net costs, which I take as the motive
for the action.

Say, if anyone has archives of any discussion in net.news[.*] (you know what
I mean, let's have no literal-minded metaflames) on this topic either in the
couple of weeks before, or after the fact, would they be kind enough to send
me a copy, or to post them to net.jokes.d?  net.jokes.d is alive and well
here, but there has been nary a net.joke to be seen for a fortnight.  Some-
thing's afoot here (not necessarily that it is BAD, but it sure was an
unannounced SURPRISE).
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