On Wed, Mar 27, 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Hillarious":
> I think email jokes are a waste of bandwidth (and I am talking about the
> personal bandwidth, my time, and not about the network bandwidth). I
> have zero tolerance for spam, and zero tolerance for jokes. If this
You don't have a sense of humor, do you? :)
Personally, I don't mind seeing a joke once in a while (I don't remember
seeing here more than one joke a year... hackers-il has more jokes and
silly stuff, if you're interested...). But jokes should follow two guidelines:
1. Be somehow relevant to Linux. A pure Microsoft-bashing joke might be
on the wrong side of that line... A "a rabbi and a minister walk in to
a pub" joke is completely out of the question.
2. Be well thought-out and well edited. Make sure this is a new/interesting
joke. Removed the hundreds of lines and levels of ">"s added by the
fact you got this joke from a chain of 700 geeks with a weird sense
of humor. In fact, if you got this joke via chain-mail, please reconsider
posting it here - most of us probably got it too...
> mailing list becomes haunted with jokes, I'll unsubscribe it.
Haunted? How many jokes have you seen here??
> This email is NOT about off topic posts. It is NOT about off topic
> amusing stories that happened to you. It is NOT about newbies questions.
> I have nothing at all against any one of these. This is about forwarding
> on jokes that were forwarded hundreds of times already.
This is true. If you find a joke that has been circulating for years and
everyone has already seen it, please don't spread it further. The same is
true not just for jokes, but also for virus scares, urban legends, please
for charity, political emails, and so on.
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