Aeagle.172 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:mhtsa!ihnss!eagle!jal Mon Dec 21 13:12:36 1981 freedom of the netwaves I spoke with a lawyer who said that in his opinion transmission of obscene material over the USENET was illegal. The cable television industry can get away with it because the supreme court made the issue of public access to cable televison into a special case. Jeff Langer Bell Labs