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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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- 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.
-
-