Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 00:07:08 EST
From: "Rob Slade, the doting grandpa of Ryan Hoff"
Subject: "The Internet Joke Book" by Templeton

BKINTJOK.RVW   950526
 
"The Internet Joke Book", Brad Templeton, 1995, 1-57398-025-0
%A   Brad Templeton brad@clarinet.com
%C   P.O. Box 640218, San Jose, CA 95164-0218
%D   1995
%G   1-57398-025-0
%I   Peer-to-Peer Communications, Inc.
%O   800-420-2677 408-435-2677 fax: 408-435-0895
%P   220
%T   "The Internet Joke Book"
 
Net lore has it that Brad Templeton started rec.humor.funny simply because he
wanted to know what moderating a newsgroup was like.  Originally from the
funny@looking.on.ca account, later from his own ClariNet organization, and
currently operating with a different moderator, rec.humor.funny has been
reposting a select two of the hundreds of submissions received each day since
1987.  While debate is fierce over the absolute merit of r.h.f. traffic, the
fact remains that it briefly held top spot on Usenet and, despite dozens of
mailing lists with potentially greater access, it is still *the* humour source
on the net.
 
An r.h.f. joke book has been published annually, and this collection is
compiled from the first four.  For anyone who has been on the net for a while,
much of the material will be familiar.  Still, it is like meeting old friends--
this is the best of the best, as it were.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995   BKINTJOK.RVW   950526

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