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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: EFF and Prodigy
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.011557.18180@eff.org>
Date: 21 Dec 90 01:15:57 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.195846.6364@looking.on.ca> <13281@milton.u.washington.edu> <1990Dec20.181029.29613@looking.on.ca>
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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In article <1990Dec20.181029.29613@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>
>Whatever their customers believe, my own readings of statements from Prodigy
>officials, and my own brief chats with them at the VIA conference, they
>want to sit firmly in the publisher end of the spectrum, no doubt because
>it is the only one that is well defined.   There is some question that they
>have misled their users on this -- that would be up to a court.

I have just heard that Prodigy has recently come to an agreement
with the Texas attorney general. They are to reimburse the AG for
investigation charges, and offer refunds to all Prodigy subscribers
in Texas who subscribed after direct-mail solicitation.

Turns out that the direct-mail materials didn't mention a user
fee for e-mail.

I've seen some Prodigy materials, and it is clear that the
e-mail and conferencing systems are highly stressed.



--Mike




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