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- From: msilverm@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Silverman)
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- Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.202207.26522@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:22:07 GMT
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- From reading comments here, I would think that Prodigy was the Hitler of
- on-line services! Before I subscribed to it, I was full of bad impressions
- gleaned from discussions here on the net and other places.
-
- "Prodigy reads your hard drive!"
- "Not only do they censor your messages, but they send Brownshirts to your
- house!"
- "Prodigy is the Great Satan!"
-
- Anyway, after a month of membership, I have to say a few things:
-
- The message areas on it suck!
- (who cares - thats what Internet is for!)
-
- Only 30 mail messages a month
- (only for Prodigy communications...everywhere else, use the Net)
-
- No downloadable software
- (use sumex-aim, or America Online)
-
- With these negative aspects, why use Prodigy at all?
- Mostly for updated news and sports highlights, and political info.
- During baseball season, Prodigy updates baseball box scores every five
- minutes. As an avid fan, I may be on the service for an hour a night just
- checking scores. With the lump sum of 15 bucks a month, I think I
- am getting a damn good value, especially since there is no
- alternative for this kind of information, unless I want to pay 6 dollars an
- hour on America Online or read about it in tommorrows paper.
-
- Rather than talking about what Prodigy isn't, remeber what it is.
- If the Internet is a Porche, than Prodigy is a VW bug; inferior to
- the Porche in every way, except that the bug get better gas mileage.
-
- As for the shit about Prodigy reading your hard drive, I don't
- believe it. For one, this is so illegal that I can't imagine
- any reputable company engaging in it.
- As for their censorship, sure it's wrong, but they also have the
- right to do it, since they are a prvate company. Anyway, if you
- have access to the Net, why read Prodigy's discussion areas at all?
-
- --
- msilverm@nyx.cs.du.edu GO CUBS!!!
-
- "One likes to believe in the freedom of baseball" - Geddy Lee
-