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- Subject: Prodigy summary, anyone?
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- From: john.asselin@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (John Asselin)
- Date: 19 Dec 92 10:57:00 GMT
- Reply-To: john.asselin@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (John Asselin)
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- JFW>Has anyone put together a review of Prodigy?
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- JFW>I am familiar with their policies of censoring bulletin board
- >discussions and restricting email, and even tried it out for a month
- >myself (for free, of course). I want to be able to give a full response
- >to someone who is asking what they are about.
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- JFW>I just need an overview of all the complaints with them, and thought I'd
- >see if anyone else has done something like this so I don't need to do it
- >all myself ;-).
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- I think I'll pass on the review (I used prodigy for about a year. The
- current football stats helped me a lot with fantasy football, but became
- too expensive for that to be the only use).
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- I read an article by Penn and Teller (I don't remember where) about the
- censorship of "profane" E-mail on the service. They suggested using your
- spell checker on the "profane words." The new words would be easily
- replaced by the reader.
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- John
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