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LISTSERV give-and-take forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Jered J Floyd <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 8 May 1997 19:17:47 -0400
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"C. Harald Koch"'s message of Thu, 8 May 1997 18:46:40 -0400
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To: "C. Harald Koch" <[log in to unmask]> cc: IBM TCP/IP List <[log in to unmask]>
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LISTSERV give-and-take forum <[log in to unmask]>
[trimmed the headers a bit. Everyone who replies, remove one item from the
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"C. Harald Koch" <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> I'm reminded of a Prodigy episode. Remember, they were actively filtering
> messages for "indencent content".  Everyone applauded until the day someone
> decided that the word "breast" was indecent, and suddenly there was no
> discussion happening in the Forum for supporting sufferrers of Breast Cancer.

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>

--Jered
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