It will be easy to see how many indecency complaints are form letters and how many are legitimate.

During this period, we have continued to receive and process indecency complaints.

In 2004, as a result of continued indecency complaints, Emmis signed a consent decree with the FCC and paid a $300,000 fine.

It relies exclusively on documented indecency complaints from television viewers.

Two weeks ago, Viacom agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle indecency complaints over remarks by Howard Stern and others.

The FCC has yet to make any ruling about the indecency complaints themselves.

Except, of course, if they want to make an indecency complaint.

Every three months the Federal Communications Commission comes up with its Quarterly Report on indecency complaints, and we sit around scratching our heads.

And that, Ars readers, could very well be how we got the horses' share of 179,997 indecency complaints in March.

On November 24, 2004, Viacom paid out $3.5 million to settle outstanding indecency complaints and stated that it would challenge the $550,000 penalty related to the incident.