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brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>   As for their censorship, it's documented that they read & censor
>  the POSTS of users on their bulletin boards; claiming they censor
>  the mail is a rather volatile statement.

Volatile as it might be, it is true.  Right before Prodigy started charging
people for mail (this was largely because many of companies that had
accounts on the system were constantly mass mailing the other users)
several users were having a conversation about how they were going to
give up their accounts and seek connections elsewhere.  The Prodigy
gods deemed this conversation bad for business and stopped its thread.
This episode was relayed to me by a Prodigy user when I was collecting
information about privacy voilations and email.  (BTW I'll have a
summary of those replies ASAP.)

Call me crazy, but I am thoroughly disgusted when I hear of *any*
system where privacy and censorship of email is allowed.  I'm hoping
to see stronger case-law and legislation to protect users' rights
soon.

-Rich
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