Re: Introduction to REC.HUMOR.FUNNY.RERUNS -- Monthly Posting

[John David Galt]

There hasn't been anything posted in RHFR except these admin messages for
over a year.

On 2013-12-02 06:35, Funny Guy wrote:
> Archive-name: usenet/rec-humor-funny/reruns-intro
>
> [Note: Any news of importance will be posted in a general message. If
> you have read these before, there is no need to read them again.]
>
> Welcome to rec.humor.funny.reruns, which features selections from the
> voluminous rec.humor.funny humor archive.
>
> Rec.humor.funny.reruns (RHFR) is a "moderated" newsgroup. This means that
> only one person, the editor/moderator, is allowed to post directly here.
> Most moderated newsgroups require an article's author to submit an article
> to the moderator, who then either rejects the article as inappropriate for
> the newsgroup or accepts the article and posts it. RHFR is different from
> "normal" moderated newsgroups, in that there are no submissions. All articles
> which appear in the newsgroup are selected from the archive of articles which
> previously appeared in another moderated newsgroup, rec.humor.funny (RHF).
>
> RHF is a newsgroup which has existed since 1987. Its moderator reads through
> many jokes submitted via email by people all over the world, and he or she
> posts only those considered to be the very best of the bunch. Naturally,
> "best humor" is highly subjective, so many people may find their personal
> senses of humor to be different from that of a particular moderator. Since
> RHF's creation, there have been three moderators. The founder and initial
> moderator was Brad Templeton. Brad wrote and maintains the software which
> is used to moderate RHF and operate its web site (http://www.netfunny.com/rhf).
> Brad still serves as "executive moderator". In 1992, Brad passed the job
> of moderating to Maddi Hausmann, who moderated until 1995, when the current
> moderator, Jim Griffith, took over.
>
> The purpose of RHFR is to offer a moderated source of humor that RHF does not
> provide. Many of the best humor which circulates the Internet is older humor,
> and virtually all older humor has appeared in RHF at one time or another.
> But RHF's charter explicitly prohibits "rerunning" jokes which have already
> appeared there. RHFR exists to give readers access to these older jokes,
> many of which were created and initially circulated long before most readers
> even knew about the Internet.
>
> Most RHF postings are categorized with "keywords." Some of these keywords
> give the editor's opinion of the joke's quality, on a scale that goes
> (doubt it, maybe, smirk, chuckle, funny, laugh, sidesplit). Of course,
> your sense of humour may vary. Check dealer for terms and conditions.
> Other keywords warn readers about potential offensive content in jokes,
> and can be used in kill files. We try to warn about sexual context, sick
> jokes, swearing, bathroom humour, the odd pun and the use of stereotypes,
> particularly racial or sexual ones.
>
> Other keywords give general information. Self-explanatory ones include
> "original" and "true." "Administrivia" is a keyword for postings like
> this, that aren't jokes, but administrative information. "heard it" means
> a joke is judged good but moderately well known.
>
> RHFR propagates the original keywords assigned when the joke was first
> posted to RHF, while adding keywords to indicate the joke's date and, for
> topical jokes, details about the topical event which provoked the joke.
>
> Readers should be warned that this is a no-holds-barred newsgroup. Like a
> letters to the editor column in a paper, we don't judge what a joke says, just
> how well (funny) it says it. Jokes that we suspect may go way beyond some
> people's thresholds of offense are actually encrypted with a simple letter-
> substitution cypher, so that you have to go out of your way to read
> them. WE WILL NOT EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU. If you dare to read these jokes,
> ask a neighbour (not the net) how to do it.
>
> The articles present in RHFR and the way in which they are presented reflect
> the current and past policies enforced for RHF, and there has been virtually
> no effort to unify or otherwise change the articles for appearance in RHFR.
> Accordingly, details of the articles' presentation style and the newsgroup's
> acceptance policy are clearly described in the RHF administration articles,
> all of which appear in rec.humor.funny at the beginning of each month. For
> detailed information, please read them.
>
> Now, a few special administrative notes:
>
> Rec.humor.funny newsgroup joke stream & collection
>
> Compilation Copyright 1987 ... 2007 by Brad Templeton
>
> You can copy and distribute the rec.humor.funny stream/collection in whole
> or as it is published in electronic form, as long as you don't try to make
> money off it, or pretend that you are the one who put it together, and as
> long as RHF and each joke's original author is appropriately identified as
> the source of the material. For details of what is entailed by a "compilation
> copyright", please check out the RHF web page (http://www.netfunny.com/rhf)
> or the RHF administration articles. Since RHFR is merely a repeated broadcast
> of original RHF material, the RHF compilation copyright applies equally to
> RHFR.
>
> Finally, please note that this newgroup propagates articles which were
> originally posted at least one year ago. In many cases, they date back to
> a previous decade. Many of the original authors are no longer active on
> the Internet, and many (if not most) of them have changed their email
> addresses. Please keep this in mind when replying to articles you see here.
> Likewise, many of the original authors have changed personally, and any
> opinions or attitudes expressed in jokes here may not even be the original
> author's opinions any more. Because of this, we will honor any request by an
> original author to remove from publication any of his or her archived articles.
>
> The collection of E-mail addresses from postings to rec.humor.funny and
> subgroups is prohibited. These E-mail addresses may be used only for
> individually composed replies relevant to the posting in question or
> by associates with a pre-existing relationship with the poster.
>
> The rec.humor.funny.reruns charter follows:
>
> Rec.humor.funny.reruns is intended to be an auto-moderated newsgroup
> in which the contents of the RHF archive are posted. The moderator
> determines the selection policy to ensure minimum repetition, and he
> sets the posting rate as he sees fit.
>
> Jokes which appeared in RHF but were subsequently identified as being
> copyrighted will be excluded from rec.humor.funny.reruns. Further, users
> who have had jokes accepted to RHF in the past may request that their jokes
> be excluded from RHFR.
>
> In addition to the standard daily postings, the moderator will identify a
> selection of classic seasonal jokes in the archives (Christmas,
> Thanksgiving, Easter, etc.), and those jokes will appear at the appropriate
> time every year. Examples of such seasonal humor includes the twelve days
> of Christmas correspondence joke and the Easter joke about Jesus seeing his
> shadow.
>
> Any submissions to rec.humor.funny.reruns are automatically bounced
> back to the submittor, with an explanation of the newsgroup's nature
> and the suggestion that the material be resubmitted to RHF.
> Followups are automatically directed to rec.humor.d.
>
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