Auiucdcs.170 net.news utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!jerry Sat Dec 19 15:43:25 1981 Re: Freedom of the Netwaves Regardless of the question of censorship, net.jokes.q is unacceptable to our site in its present form. The taxpayers of the state of Illinois have the right to demand a certain moral level in the expenditure of state funds. Clearly using state supported resources to forward material of questionable taste, especially in the form that net.jokes.q has taken, is unacceptable. Therefore uiucdcs will not accept submissions from net.jokes.q or forward this newsgroup to any other site. On a personal level, I think that some items, in particular the dead baby jokes are very offensive and I wish that individuals would use more sensitivity in deciding whether a joke should really be submitted. Within bounds ethnic jokes and other items in net.jokes.q are acceptable to me. Obviously netnews does not possess the amount of intelligence etc. to screen the offensive entries. If people really want to submit garbage maybe there should be a newsgroup net.jokes.g for people with the mentality that says if a joke is really gross it must be great. Jerry Wall unix system administrator Department of Computer Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.