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From: graff@mlpvm2.iinus1.ibm.com (Michael Graff)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox...
Message-ID: <9102072259.AA02181@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 23:04:02 GMT
Reply-To: graff@mlpvm2.iinus1.ibm.com
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(My first posting seems to be lost in the net.  Sorry if this is a
duplicate.)

louisg@vpnet.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:

> Electronic mail?  Hah.  "Mail" implies a right to privacy which you don't have.
> They go through most (if not all) letters you send in E-mail.  It takes longer
> for someone to send mail on that system than to send mail in Internet.

This is absolutely, unequivocally false.  You're confusing email with
the public message boards.  Many of the message boards are
"previewed", so some messages are rejected, and all messages are
delayed.  (I won't get into whether this previewing is good or evil
since it's been widely discussed elsewhere already.)

But private email sent directly to another subscriber is strictly
private, just like any other email service.

...Michael