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From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith)
Subject: Re: Rec.humor.funny is dead, film at 11
Keywords: dead, cut-off, pressure tactics
Date: 8 Dec 88 01:35:24 GMT
Organization: M. R. Smith Consulting, New Brunswick, NJ

Well, it seems that JEDR got his way...  I saw this in rec.humor.d,
and thought it oughta be brought over here.
Maybe one of Brad's supporters will come forward and give him a feed?
Mark
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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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