🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 24 Nov 1994, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:

> Prodigy is not a normal case since they pre-screen every message before it
> gets posted. They thus are in the posting loop as opposed to other BBS
> Services (like Genie, AoL and CIS) where the message gets immediately
> posted with no SYSOP intervention and the SYSOPs find out about it when one
> of them reads it as a user or when a user complains.
> 
> 

This is incorrect. Prodigy no longer pre-screens each and every message, 
abandoning that practice at least a year, probably longer. The amount of 
moderation that Prodigy actually does perform, and whether they knew the 
message existed, is going to be critical to their defense.

This is why we sponsor Sysop Liability Workshops :-)


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