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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: EFF and Prodigy
Message-ID: <13281@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 90 22:05:37 GMT
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The issue not dealt with by Brad Templeton is whether in fact Prodigy,
as a service integrator and provider of transactions among parties
other than itself, is merely a publisher or something else more akin
to a public market.  If the latter, which we can debate but which will
only be resolved by the law, then the publisher argument goes out the
window.  Weren't the people issuing messages on Prodigy, particularly
if they were multiple messages, publishers of a sort, too?  

Bob Jacobson