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- From: teddybur@netcom.com (John Sanger)
- Subject: Re: Prodigy pulls the plug
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.052426.17779@netcom.com>
- Organization: Hetaris Computer Consulting
- References: <1993Jan28.035202.12944@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:24:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.035202.12944@bradley.bradley.edu> larry@bradley.bradley.edu (L. D. Stratton) writes:
- >
- >Prodigy has terminated an adult section of their BB center. Known
- >as "Frank Discussion", the topics under that section included
- >"AlternateLifeStyles", primarily GBL oriented but included cross-dressing,
- >Dominate/submissive and several other genre.
- >
- >Access was gained by retyping one's password and a certain amount of
- >censorship was imposed but generally, the subjects and the language
- >was fairly explicit and permissive.
- >
- >It was the decision of Prodigy to merge them into existing groups and
- >apply a very strict censorship on language and content.
- >
- >People are not happy!
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- What else can you expect from companies that are going broke and started
- Prodigy only to sell you something you did not need at a price that you did
- not need to pay? If they (IBM & SEARS) were serious about providing an
- information service then they would get rid of the constant on screen ads.
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- Ciao!
- John S. :^)
- teddybur@netcom.com
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