Morgan’s Jokes is a free e-mail service. The jokes are distributed periodically,
courtesy of Morgan:Newsletters.
Here’s how it works: We keep watch for funny jokes which we come across in our
Internet travels. We edit them, clean them up if there
’s no particular reason for them to be ‘dirty’—by this we mean foul language, gender bias, religious bias or sexual innuendo
that is in the joke for gratuitous reasons. We also edit them for grammar and
readability, taking care to preserve inflections, wording or spelling that is
important to the joke.
But we’re not prudes. Sometimes such a joke may have a legitimate reason to use foul
language, innuendo or the like; in that case we will label it in some way in
the subject line: PG 14 or X-Rated, or some such. That way you know before you
open it what you will encounter. We do that, in part, because we know some of
our subscribers will often share the jokes with their children.
There are no set number of jokes we send out per time period, but it’s generally not too many per week, because they really have to be funny (to
us!). Sometimes they
’ll come in clumps, sometimes singly. Sometimes days will go by without one.
Mostly the jokes are fairly short; a screen or two, sometimes they
’re longer than that; sometimes they are images or short movie files (typically
these are funny ads). We maintain two lists
—one for those who have high-speed Internet service and so don’t mind the large files that a graphic or movie entails, and a list for those who
prefer to get just text-only jokes.
If, however, ‘Morgan’s Jokes’ becomes annoying or intrusive or simply not particularly funny, you can ask us
to stop sending the material to you. You can do this at any time/ Simply
’Reply’ to any ’Morgan’s Jokes’ item we send to you, and we’ll make the change as soon as practical. After all, that’s the whole point of receiving a free, responsible jokes service.
It’s also as user-friendly as we can make it. For instance, anytime we send you a
joke, the subject line will start with
‘Morgan’s Jokes:’, followed by an intriguing subject line. We standardize the subject line so
that if your e-mail program has filtering abilities, you can teach the program
to automatically watch for messages with a subject line starting with
‘Morgan’s Jokes:’, and have it move them to a particular folder or directory so you can read them
at your leisure. That way, they won
’t clutter up your e-mail in-basket. Even if your e-mail program doesn’t filter messages for you, you can still see, at a glance of the subject lines,
whether it
’s a Morgan’s Jokes item.
Are you worried that we might use your e-mail address to send you spam, or
perhaps rent your address to others? We don
’t do that. Period. We use it exactly for what we say we’ll use it for.