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Thu, 8 May 1997 19:37:25 -0400
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Re: AOL mail traffic
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Your message of "Thu, 08 May 1997 19:28:28 EDT." <[log in to unmask]>
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To: "C. Harald Koch" <[log in to unmask]> cc: Jered J Floyd <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], Karl Mulder <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask], IBM TCP/IP List <[log in to unmask]>
 
Your message dated: Thu, 08 May 1997 19:28:28 EDT

> In message <[log in to unmask]>, Jered J Floyd writes:
> >
> > Something similar may have happened at Prodigy; but the one that springs
> > to mind for me is when America OnLine decided 'breast' was not an
> > appropriate word for member profiles or chat rooms, and zapped a bunch of
> > users in a Breast Cancer Survivors forum on AOL.
> >
> >   <http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,29,00.html>
>
> You're right, that was AOL. Oh, that's just too perfect.

    Yup, AOL does some pretty stupid stuff, too.  One of my
favourites was when they banned a certain word that also kept you
from discussing Shiitake mushrooms.


    However, that doesn't change my views on the original subject.

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