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From: Bernard Lang <B.lang@INRIA.FR>
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Subject: Re: Adult BBS Systems Beware
Date: 8 Mar 1994 14:46:55 +0200
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> From owner-cdrom-l%UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU  Tue Mar  8 08:44:03 1994
> From: Douglas Carpenter <douglas.carpenter@CLD9.COM>
> The EFF has issued a warning to sysops that the following files,
> which depict any of the following acts, are illegal in all 50
> states and can subject the sysop to prosecution, regardless of
> whether the sysop knows about the files or not:
>
>   -- Depiction of actual sex acts in progress
>
>   -- Depiction of an erect penis

Thanks to Douglas Carpenter, and the EFF for the warning, though I am
not personally concerned.

Just one comment:

    It seems that any detailed description of a massacre is legal in
all 50 states.  (people have to learn to use their guns, don't they?)
  Or am I mistaken?

I am not pretending it is any better in other countries.

Bernard Lang