Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!balkan!dogface!bei From: bei@dogface (Bob Izenberg) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: prodigy Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 13:03:29 GMT References: <14193.281F5781@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> Distribution: na Lines: 24 Tom.Jennings@f111.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Tom Jennings) writes: > Remember the Prodigy trouble of about a year ago, a conference or > discussion removed by Prodigy, and eventually some participants kicked off? > > The original "problem" was the discussion of gay & lesbian rights and issues. > The discussion was removed by Prodigy, and when participants complained, and > continued the discussion via point-to-point mail, that got yanked too, and so > did some of the participants. A friend whose mother is into needlepoint related a similar tale, but it was a group of people discussing needlepoint and quilting that was booted off. I know that sewing is a sensitive issue, so maybe that's why this hasn't received much coverage... ;-) In all seriousness, I was thinking of a more famous seamstress a minute after hearing my friend's potential urban legend. Nobody wants to cop to being the network that wouldn't let Betsy Ross talk about her sewing... Can anyone confirm the needlepointer story? -- Bob Bob Izenberg cs.utexas.edu!dogface!bei [ ] "So young, so bad... So what!" 512 346 7019 Wendy O. Williams