Aunc.1621 net.news utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!wm Mon Dec 21 18:39:32 1981 freedom of the netwaves If the lawyer Jeff Langer talked to is right, and transmission of obscene material over USENET is illegal, then all that is left is to define what is obscene. How would "local community standards" work as a definition on a spidery net like this one? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.