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- From: mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marc Gabriel)
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- Subject: Re: PRODIGY.COM??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.221651.16282@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:16:51 GMT
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- Stephen Andersen (andersen@me.udel.edu) wrote:
- :
- : >In article <1992Dec21.202259.36479@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
- (Marc Gabriel) writes:
- : >>Does anyone know if the PRODIGY.COM gateway is up and running yet?
- : >>I was able to 'whois' it today, but how do you send mail to users?
- : >>
- : >>-Marc.
- :
- : Will this gateway to prodigy only allow email to/from the
- : internet or will it also allow one to telnet to internet
- : sites from prodigy (once it is working of course)?
- : Or am i totally out in left field here?
-
- Probably left field.
-
- : The reason I ask is that my brother is subscribing to
- : prodigy soon and he was asking about how he could read
- : news on the internet. I haven't been able to find any
- : public access sites in his area yet so I thought this might
- : offer a solution...
-
- If your only reason for subscribing to Prodigy is to get Internet resources,
- don't. My guess is that the Prodigy gateway will be modeled after the
- Compu$erve one, and that (to my knowledge) is strictly a mail gateway.
- There are also complex issues involved if you give Prodigy users Net access,
- especially ones that pertain to the original charter of the Internet (i.e.
- commercialism).
- Anyway, the average Prodigy user is simply an average American, ignorant that
- a thing called the Internet even exists.
-
- -Marc.
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