[3279] in Humor
Administrivia: (was: Joke for YOU!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Tue Aug 8 19:08:00 2000
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:45:51 -0400
To: Andrew Bennett <abennett@MIT.EDU>
From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
Cc: humor@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <3990B222.2739E0E1@mit.edu>
Uh, Drew, we have one, remember? :-) But you're welcome to take the reins
again if you like....
I took Rhett off the list as soon as he made his first idiot post last
Wednesday. He didn't figure it out until yesterday evening, at which point
he added himself back on. Off-line, I sent him an 'official' request to
stop posting to the list things that are designed to annoy the other
members. If he does it again, it all gets forwarded to STOPIT. I was
hoping that, not getting any attention from the list, he would give up and
go pester someone else. But no....
I considered taking the list private, but that's a major inconvenience for
everyone (especially me), so I'd rather not do that if I can avoid it. And
it still wouldn't stop him from sending crap to the list, since I do
believe that you can post to any list of which you are not a member.
So, that's where we are.
-pug
At 06:21 PM 8/8/00 -0700, Andrew Bennett wrote:
>I am the founder (1988) and former moderator of humor@mit.edu. Sadly,
>when I left
>the 'tute in '97, I also surrendered moderator duties. Perhaps we need
>another one?
>
>-Drew
>
>Susan wrote:
>
> > Tom Sobczynski says:
> >
> > >OK, enough is enough.
> >
> > I agree. And that's why there now exists the list, humor-flame@mit.edu.
> > Or at least there will as of the Wednesday morning moira update.
> >
> > Because humor is for jokes. Amusing things. Even things that aren't quite
> > jokes, but are. (Seriously, I've heard enough of the things that go out
> > unadulterated over this list at least once before, if not three times,
> and nobody
> > would be complaining if Rhett had told "two tents" straight.)
> >
> > I hesitate to set myself up as any kind of arbiter of comedy around
> here, but
> > I'm just not that amused by people complaining about other people's
> sense of
> > humor or lack thereof. I don't think people should send messages like
> this one,
> > for example, to humor. If you want to send mail like this in the
> future, send
> > it to humor-flame. If you want to read it, then type
> >
> > blanche humor-flame -a <username>
> >
> > at the athena prompt, where <username> is your username. If you're not on
> > Athena, I have no idea why you would want to be on the list either, but I'm
> > sure there's a way.
> >
> > And you don't have to use this just for Rhett's jokes. Feel free to grouse
> > about Darwin awards you didn't think were particularly stupid, jokes
> that you
> > thought were much better in your version with the nun and the cockatiel
> rather
> > than the rabbi and the three-toed sloth, the Nth forwarding of cookie
> recipes,
> > whatever. Knock yourselves out.
> >
> > We now return you to your regularly scheduled humor mail.
> >
> > -Susan
>
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Sharalee M. Field
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