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- From: strange@acpub.duke.edu (Michael B. Scher)
- Newsgroups: triangle.general
- Subject: Re: PRODIGY experience?
- Message-ID: <8225@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 08:32:40 GMT
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- In article <8057@news.duke.edu> jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead) writes:
- >In article <Bz9C92.7Eq@unx.sas.com> sasrco@mantis.unx.sas.com writes:
- >>
- >>I am seeking advice from anyone with experience/knowledge on the
- >>PRODIGY software/network. I have 3 children in school (8th, 4th, and
- >>1st) and 1 in pre-school. What can we get out of it?
- >
- >A lot more trouble than it is worth.
- >
- >It is slow, hard to read, and full of advertising. The people who
- >run it are restrictive and don't allow any digression from their
- >stated goals.
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- I have been told as well that Prodigy keeps a record of advertisements
- that users (L)ook at (scroll back to. Users may find themselves on interesting
- mailing lists. I was one of the 3-month pre-public testers and noticed no
- increase in mail, though I did have that peculiar problem of finding samples
- of my files and directory tree in the Prodigy files. Whatever the case, it's
- slow (graphics sending), and gives you a pretty annoying screen to look at.
-
- Other info systems are generally better-connected, offer similar flat
- rates, and have the advantage of being advertisement-free.
-
- -Mike
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