From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ihldt!jhh Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: net.jokes.q & etc. Article-I.D.: ihldt.632 Posted: Thu Jul 8 09:00:40 1982 Received: Fri Jul 9 01:59:57 1982 Transmission of obscene material over phone line is not always illegal. The following is from an Illinois Bell phone book (emphasis mine): Illinois law defines harassment as the use of the telephone to make lewd or indecent comment **with intent to offend...to abuse, threaten or harass**... This seems to make net.jokes.q legal **between consenting computers**. Now if a site sends offending material that is not desired, it is possible that they could be liable for prosecution under this law ($500 fine and/or 6 months in the slammer). John Haller