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Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before

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From: Bruce Kleinman
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:46
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In article <1992Dec17.183205.16889@panix.com> imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar) writes:
>
>See if you can post anything about Prodigy there - try posting something
>critical of Prodigy - if you remember they even CENSORED people's *email*
>on Prodigy and it became such a major issue some months ago.
>
>Imran

I and many others post openly critical notes on Prodigy's bulletin boards
on a regular basis.  They do not get censored unless 4-letter words are
used or the posting is "unduly offensive", and criticism of the service
itself does not qualify for the latter category -- they're looking for
ethnic slurs and the like.  

The fact that we find so much to criticize indicates that many of the
other problems various folks have brought up do indeed exist, but there
simply is no censorship based on the objective content of the messages.

The major issue Imran refers to actually was the exact opposite -- Prodigy
was criticized for NOT censoring certain private email messages which
allegedly contained anti-Semitic references.  
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Message-ID: <1992Dec18.194659.3619@pony.Ingres.COM>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!rtech!ingres!brucek
References: <1992Dec17.075003.3502@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1992Dec17.093846.11906@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec17.183205.16889@panix.com>

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From: brucek@Ingres.COM (Bruce Kleinman)
Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
Message-ID: <1992Dec18.194659.3619@pony.Ingres.COM>
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company, Alameda CA 94501
References: <1992Dec17.075003.3502@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1992Dec17.093846.11906@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec17.183205.16889@panix.com>
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:46:59 GMT
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