From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:43:37 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: new "obscenity" law on the net
Message-ID: <199602240737.XAA14990@ix3.ix.netcom.com>
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>[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....


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