Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: EFF and Prodigy Message-ID: <1990Dec19.064520.1529@looking.on.ca> Date: 19 Dec 90 06:45:20 GMT References: <1990Dec10.211625.9536@eff.org> <1990Dec17.195846.6364@looking.on.ca> Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 16 I doubt that Prodigy is reading private e-mail. That's clearly illegal. It is somewhat ironic. A year ago, people would have called 25 cents/message electronic mail a price breakthrough, cheaper than MCI, Dialcom, etc. Now GEnie has unlimited E-mail and a few others do to, but it's still the exception. Right now it's a fact of business that you can't allow unlimited e-mail and mailing lists of thousands of people and make money. I expect that to change with time, but what's the surprise today? Recall that Prodigy doesn't run ads over the E-mail, either. I think the only way GEnie will escape is that it doesn't offer mailing lists in the unlimited-use service. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473