new "obscenity" law on the net

Per Persson pp at pfawww.pp.se
Thu Feb 22 07:47:27 PST 1996


[Ben sent this to rms at 'Sat, 3 Feb 1996 10:32:00 -0700'];

"Ben A. Mesander" <ben at 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.

/pp.

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