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Re: Filtering TV Commercials

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From: Michael A. Covington
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 04:49
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In article <55550028@hpscit.sc.hp.com> rkarlqu@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Rick Karlquist) writes:

>BTW, I think this may be the reason that "electronic newspapers"
>have never caught on, because you could filter out advertisements
>with software.

Is that why Prodigy requires you to use _their_ terminal software
and is not compatible with anything else?



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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
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Subject: Re: Filtering TV Commercials
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