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- From: sherwood@adobe.com (Geoffrey Sherwood)
- Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.210536.9532@adobe.com>
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- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
- References: <zkessin.724650697@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <1993Jan26.202207.26522@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan28.044358.18142@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:05:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.044358.18142@news.acns.nwu.edu> alasnik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Lasnik) writes:
- >My biggest disagreement with your assertions, however, is with your
- >implication that the internet is totally better and more exciting than the
- >Prodigy bulletin boards. Frankly, I think the internet can't compete with the
- >diversity of members found on Prodigy's boards. While the male-to-female
- >ratio as well as the computer geek-to-nongeek ratio may be skewed on the
- >Internet, it is NOT so on Prodigy.
-
- While I do enjoy the boards on Prodigy, they have one major failing that makes
- them incredibly frustrating to use. To wit, the only thing they remember as
- a criteria for reading news is your last logon time. Pop on for a minute to
- check a sports score or bank balance, and the next time you go to a board that
- is the time and date they remember. If the line drops while reading a board,
- when you log on all it wants to show you are posts that have come in since
- you last logged on -- maybe ten minutes ago. It's bad enough trying to deal
- with one board (I am in the market for a new 486, so I have been frequenting
- the Computer Board) but I can't imagine dealing with multiple ones. Unless
- you are going to sit down and read all posts in all groups everytime you
- log on. Something like a .newsrc would be a major boon. I know there are
- interface packages sold for Prodigy -- do any of them at least ameliorate
- this problem (I think any real solution would have to come from P itself)?
-
- Am I the only one frustrated by this? Or is there some solution I am missing?
-
- thanks,
- geoff sherwood
-