From: cate3.osbu_north@xerox.com (Henry Cate III)
Subject: ftp server for the Life series
Date: 17 Feb 93 01:30:18 GMT


     It's nice to be back on the net.  It's been several months since
I was able to post to rec.humor.  It looks like I should be on for 
awhile.  So if you like the Life series, which is mostly a collection
of clean stuff which was posted years ago, I'll be around for awhile.
If you don't like the Life series, put "Life  " in your kill file.
     For those of you who want the whole collection, my brother has
created an ftp server at:

furmint.nectar.cs.cmu.edu
     
     And the files are stored in the "jokes" directory.
     The collection is currently about 4.5 Meg of clean humor.  The
format is simple text mail files for Xerox's Development Environment
(XDE) and when I get the time I may go back and make it a more generic
format.  But for now, the files have some obnoxious header information
in them for each batch.
     Since there are over a hundred thousand people who read or skim
rec.humor, if you do decide to get a copy of the Life series, could
you please wait until the day your birthday is falls in February or 
March?  This way my brother's workstation may survive.  For example
if your birthday is the 17th of May, go ahead and ftp the collection
tomorrow.  But if your birthday is the 13th of October, please wait
until the 13th of March to ftp the Life files.  Hopefully this way
the load will not be too bad.
     Have a good day.
     
     
     Henry III
     cate3.osbu_north@xerox.com