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From: technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Tech News Account)
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Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox...
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.070119.12462@iitmax.iit.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 07:01:19 GMT
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The complaint most people have about PRODIGY is NOT the services it offers,
but the actions they've taken:

(all of this is secondhand, but somewhat reliable)

From what I heard, PRODIGY removed a "alternate lifestyles" message section
because some fundie complained that homosexuality was immoral and a sin
against god...

The REAL interesting part is how prodigy is ALLEGED to have responded to 
complaints about this action...

supposedly, they read people's private E-mail, and threatened to suspend the
access of the people who were behind the complaints about the deletion.

Anybody have proven FACTS about this stuff?

Personally, I don't like PRODIGY, because unlike every other publically
accessible network in the civilized world, they refuse to be interlinked with
the others... Bitnet,compuserve,Genie- Prodigy alone is snobbish.

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