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From: lev@rsdps.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian S. Lev)
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Subject: Re: Prodigy bashing. was: Re: mail to Prodigy
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Date: 8 Apr 91 17:40:47 GMT
References: <DrPHILLIPS.91Mar26133225@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil> <1991Mar26.205510.19869@linus.mitre.org> <1991Apr1.181020.8836@SanDiego.NCR.COM>
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In article <1991Apr1.181020.8836@SanDiego.NCR.COM>, davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes...
>    Personally I've never run up against Prodigy's infamous censorship but
>    I don't use Prodigy to post notices complaining about Prodigy. Most of
>    the 'censorship' occured after Prodigy started charging for E-mail
>    services when a few very vocal people started seriously abusing the
>    system by flooding the BBS's and other user's personal mailboxes with
>    "Boycott Prodigy" messages. I for one was happy to see some of those
>    people get kicked off. I'll bet such tactics wouldn't have been dealt
>    with kindly here either. Admittedly Prodigy did go overboard for a time
>    in trying to squelch such practices.

I was recently reading the Letters to the Editor section of one of the main Mac
magazines (-User or -World, I *always* get them confused!), and there were some
comments in there from Prodigy users whose messages *did* get posted -- AFTER
someone had changed to wording and/or removed some text!  If I read the letters
correctly, none of these messages involved "Prodigy bashing" or sexual subject
matter.

I'm sorry -- despite the limits (sometimes) placed on message language and
content on the various nets, no one (in my knowledge) has gone so far as to
limit Email to what they liked -- or changed the wording of the sender!

I do not currently subscribe to Prodigy, and -- due almost completely to what
I've learned about their "editing" -- have no plans to try them out again (had
a test set-up for a while).

-- Brian Lev

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