[Ben sent this to rms at 'Sat, 3 Feb 1996 10:32:00 -0700']; "Ben A. Mesander" <ben@gnu.ai.mit.edu> writes:
Just curious - will the new law outlawing obscenity on the net in the us cause you to make changes to some of the comments in the emacs source code?
Some weeks ago, Lars and Richard went through the Gnus source and removed 'fuck' two times and 'fucking' one time (if I didn't get it all wrong). I wonder if that's your fault.
A number of years ago, the Political Correctness folks at AT&T cleaned up the termcap and terminfo files that were distributed with Unix. You really can't talk about the Hazeltine terminal without using the word "brain-damaged", and the "2621-ba" was redescribed as "broken arrow keys" :-) Bill, who spent far too much time tweaking termcaps.... #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com / billstewart@attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs Pager +1-408-787-1281