In article <10279@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jyegiguere@lotus.waterloo.edu (Eric Giguere) writes:
| Well, if anyone's been wondering why rec.humor.funny's been inactive,
| here's the reason:
|
| "Joke editor loses access to computer"
|
| This is on the front page of today's Kitchener-Waterloo Record. I won't
| quote the whole article, but the gist of it is that Brad Templeton has
| lost his access to the University of Waterloo's UNIX systems, and hence
| to USENET. To quote the article:
|
| "And the university won't renew Brad Templeton's status unless
| he agrees to stop transmitting offensive racial jokes through
| the UW computer system, university officials were expected to
| announce at a press conference today."
|
| On top of that, the UW's president is forming a committee to "look into the
| whole question of computer facilities and how they're being used".
|
| Then they talk about the Scotish/Jewish and Black/Italian jokes again.
|
| Looks like rec.humor.funny is permanently disconnected. Unless someone
| starts it up somewhere else, or Brad finds a link to another computer system.
|
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