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- Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:30:07 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212190030.14@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Dec16.060755.6327@panix.com> <1992Dec16.205326.29305@gateway.ssf-sys.DHL.COM> <zkessin.724555976@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- In article <zkessin.724555976@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> zkessin@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Zach, the Lego Maniac) writes:
- >jdavis@ssf-sys.DHL.COM (Jim Davis) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Dec16.060755.6327@panix.com> imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar) writes:
- >>>
- >>>If you are considering joining Prodigy as a new member, or left and are
- >>>considering rejoining with their "come back" mailing efforts, or are
- >>>just thinking Prodigy is the service you should use - just several
- >>>pairs of two words: STAY AWAY! IT SUCKS! BAD MOVE!
- >>>
- >>>Imran Anwar
- >>>
- >>>PS I love internet and Compuserve if you wanted to know :-)
- >
- >>I chopped out most of this but you get the idea Imran doesn't like Prodigy.
- >>Well I feel obliged to respond. I've used Prodigy for a couple of years and
- >>like it very much. I tried Compuserve and think it SUCKS! So there you are!
- >>What do they say, "different strokes for different folks, etc"?
- >
- >DON'T use Prodigy, well not unless you dont care that other people may
- >be snooping on *YOUR* files. I just read on alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- >something about Prodigy uploading stuff from peoples HD's. I think the
- >EFF has more info.
- >
- >just a warning.
-
- It's also bullshit. When a file is deleted on a MSDOS machine, the file
- pointer is just freed up to allow another file. The data is still on the
- disk. The prodigy allocates a large file on the hard disk to act as a
- buffer for downloading screens of stuff to your computer. There is always
- a good chance there will be data in the file that is left over from old
- deleted files. And no, they don't upload it.
-
- What is true, is that everything that is posted to Prodigy is read by
- censors. If they don't like it, they delete it.
-
- I wouldn't take Prodigy for free. It's a toy network.
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- --
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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