Giving credit for every joke is good in theory but no so much in practice. I imagine I, like most, get several of these emails from mass emailings from a friend of a friend's contact list. I honestly don't know some of the people I get them from as they are replying to forwards and I happen to be on the mass contact list...
I completely agree credit should be given if the joke has an author signature or if it is made known in some way; but don't see where giving credit to some guy who happened to email it to me is necessary (unless he happened to create the joke)... It just seems like a waste of words to me to give credit to someone who just copy & pasted a few lines of text...
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