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From: jonl@pro-smof.cts.com (Jon Lebkowsky)
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Subject: Re: email's not real Mail, now, is it?
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Date: 24 Dec 90 03:56:10 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com

Note about Prodigy email privacy: my understanding is that Prodigy hasn't been
reading private messages unless the receiver complained and specifically asked
the Prodigy folks to have a look. The assumption that they are routinely
reading email is apparently incorrect and, when you think of it, with the
million plus messages they report, it's unlikely they'd have the staff to keep
track.

I mention this as a point of clarification. I am no friend to Prodigy, which I
consider a loathsome system designed to condition the consumer like a
salivating dog to buy anything and everything in his/her online path.