From owner-joke@gnt.net Fri Apr 19 13:05:46 1996 To: adam at xent dot com Subject: Welcome to joke Reply-To: Majordomo@gnt.net -- Welcome to the joke mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to "Majordomo@gnt.net" with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe joke adam at xent dot com (I Find Karma) Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: [Last updated on: Thu Apr 18 8:18:57 1996] ******************** Joke of the Day has a new home! Welcome to it! If you received this message, you are on the "correct" joke list. Switching from one address to another may cause some confusion, but you made it! The FAQ below is somewhat the same as I have always used, but I have made a few minor changes to it. Thanks for contacting Joke of the Day! You may want to save this message since it contains instructions on how to subscribe and unsubscribe from the list. As a member, this list of subversives will hopefully get a joke each week! FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: What is Joke of the Day? A: This is a mailing list that sends out a joke at least once a week to over 16,500 people in 29 different countries. Q: How do I SUBSCRIBE? A: Send a message to majordomo@gnt.com with the word SUBSCRIBE JOKE on the first line of the message. This is automated, so please do not type anything else or it will not work. Q: How do I UNSUBSCRIBE? A: Send a message to majordomo@gnt.com with the word UNSUBSCRIBE JOKE on the first line of the message. This is also automated, so please do not type anything else or it will not work. Q: But Joker, why on earth do you do this? A: This is a free service which I do just because I like to share humor with others. I try to keep the jokes clean, but every now and then a naughty joke or bad word may appear, so if you are likely to be offended by this, please do not subscribe. Q: Hey! That joke offened me! What are you going to do about it? A: Nothing. I'm an equal opportunity offender. With this many people on the list, it is hard to please all the people all the time. I make jokes about republicans & democrats, women & men, Catholics & Protestants, animals, Asians, Africans, Germans, Americans, Italians, and everyone else. This is all in good fun and I try not to hurt any feelings. If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? (Besides Homer Simpson) Q: Do you get paid to do this? A: Nope, this is just a hobby. However you are welcome to send me a twenty... Q: How often do you send the jokes out? A: Up until the end of May 1995, I was sending them out each weekday. Since then, I've decided that I want a little more time to myself. I'll be sending out the jokes once a week for a while. Q: Where do you get the jokes? A: The material comes from a variety of sources such USENET newsgroups, friends, relatives, bathroom walls, etc... Q: Is there a web site for the joke? A: Sort of... There is a beginning of one at http://tdkt.org/~joker I have just started putting it together, so there is not a lot there yet. It is best viewed with Netscape 2.0, so if things aren't centered or the background looks odd, you're probably not using netscape. People on AOL can use Netscape now too. The AOL broswer sucks. If traffic becomes to high on the page, I may need to take it down... we'll see how it goes... Q: If I send you a joke, will you use it? A: Maybe, but chances are slim. I get hundreds of e-mail each day. Although many of them are very good pieces of humor, I simply cannot use them all. I find many to be repeats that are being passed around the net. Q: Do you use copy righted material? A: Sometimes, but not on purpose. If I know something is copyrighted, I will not use it. Every now and then I'll get a message saying, "That joke appeared on page 73 in LIFE MAGAZINE on August 1, 1963." The fact is I cannot not know everything that was ever written. Many times when I get humor off FTP sites or mailed from subscribers, I have no way of tracking the original source. Q: How/when did the joke start? A: The Joke of the Day originally started sometime during May of 1994 in an attempt to look busy while working at Carlson Companies. I started sending the joke out to about 5 people at work, and as people forwarded it to their friends, the list grew. I eventually had to move the joke operations to my home computer. Now I have to come up with other things to make myself look busy while at work. Q: Can you dedicate a joke to someone? A: I usually don't unless it's real important. In March I sent a message asking everyone to send a message to my supervisor for her birthday. She was bombarded with nearly 2000 messages. I also got 100 messages asking me to do that for other people. It would not have taken me long to get in trouble with a system admin somewhere. Q: What is TLX and what are those quotes on the bottom of your messages? A: TLX (Tag Line X-press) is a program that automatically adds a signature (usually a picture) and a one line statement at the end of my e-mails. As I hear new phrases or quotes, I add them to my database of "taglines." Q: How do you send the jokes? A: I use a program called Majordomo to handle the automation of the mailing list. When you send requests to subscribe or unsubscribe, you are actually sending a command to a computer program. Q: Who helps you? A: Bill Dyess is the system administrator who donated his system resources and is helping the joke list live on... GNT.COM is GulfNet Technologies in Destin, FL. Their business is providing internet connections to people like you and me. If you are interested in the service they provide, please check out http://www.gnt.com The system I use is maintained by a good friend, Erik Jacobson. Erik is a full time student at the University of Minnesota. For more on Erik, see http://www.msi.umn.edu/~erikj Q: Who are you? A: I am Scott Anderson. I live and work about 20 miles west of Minneapolis, MN, USA. Many people wonder who I am. So do my parents. I'm 24, got red hair, blue eyes, and DO NOT own a pocket protector. Q: Do you really read all of your e-mail? A: Yes, I read all my e-mail. Because I get an average of 100-200 e-mails a day, and I simply cannot reply to them all, but I do read them. If I do reply, it might take me a while. Q: How do I view this FAQ again as things get updated? A: You can send a message to majordomo@gnt.com with the command INFO JOKE on the first line of the message. ================================================================= Sample joke: A tall weather-worn cowboy walked into the saloon and ordered a beer. The regulars quietly observed the drifter through half-closed eyelids. No one spoke, but they all noticed that the strangers hat was made of brown wrapping paper. Less obvious was the fact that his shirt and vest were also made of paper. As were his chaps, pants, and even his boots, including the paper spurs. Truth be told, even the saddle, blanket and bridle on his horse were made entirely of paper. Of course he was soon arrested for rustling... __________________________________________________________________________ ---------------> Save the whales, collect the whole set <--------------- |\ O __________|_\______ \_.______________________| * * * * * * * * */ __\____ |=================/ For Reply, send a self-abused stomped Antelope to joker@tdkt.org