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From: dsp@polari.UUCP (Don Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Prodigy
Keywords: Claimed Publisher Status
Message-ID: <3350@polari.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 91 23:17:02 GMT
Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944
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   In looking back at the EFF news and issues of CuD that I've read I
hesitate to continue the thread but my $.02 is...

   From my reading of Prodigy's answer to it's critic's in the NY Times I
beleive they claimed status as a publisher and therefore the right to
edit what's on their "service".

   For paying $13.00 a month and having your thoughts edited and
distributed... does this sound like the vanity publishers in the book
world? 

   Aunt Martha wants her poems to be published in book form and sold by
the publisher. For this incrediable right she pays out several hundred
dollars.   

                            ?,

                           Don