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From: Chris_Kent.PARC@XEROX.COM
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Subject: Re: Databases and comm channels:  future trends? (Really about Prodigy)
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Date: 12 Nov 90 23:44:37 GMT
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Isn't this the way it's always been? No. Perhaps it's always been this way for
computer mail services, but I think that the telephone system is a better
analogy for the future of electronic messaging systems. The Phone Company has
no right to censor what I say on the phones (modulo obscenity laws or whatever
it is that makes it illegal to use scatalogical language on the phones in the
US), even if I'm using the phone to call my local Utilities Commision. They
rent me the wires. Period.