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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: email's not real Mail, now, is it?
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Date: 3 Jan 91 17:32:04 GMT
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Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle
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Last night (1/2/91), NPR's "Marketplace" offered a stimulating give and
take between Berle Walsh, computer reviewer, who panned Prodigy for 
"learning how to dissipate goodwill more quickly than any other new
service"; and Jeffrey Moore, Prodigy spokesperson.  I think the thing
that riled me most was Moore's response to the issue of Prodigy's using
the subsidized mails to conduct millions of unsolicited messages vis-a-
vis its subscribers' use of email for mass mailings, to wit:  "We pay
lots of dollars to use the mails, the dissident subscribers are doing
it for free."  How's that?  

Bob Jacobson