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- From: raisch@Control.COM (Robert Raisch)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: PRODIGY - Speed, Cost, Usefulness, etc.
- Keywords: prodigy macintosh
- Message-ID: <2481@cthulhuControl.COM>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 16:05:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cthulhuC.2481
- References: <bond.714758068@khaki19>
- Followup-To: comp.misc
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Control Technology Corp., Hopkinton MA
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- bond@rtsg.mot.com (Allan Bond) writes:
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- >** Is there any way to customize the service from my end to reduce the
- > amount of useless advertisements & graphics being dumped to my screen?
-
- BWWWAAAAAA HAAA HAA HAHAHAHAHA......<inhale> BWWAAA HAH HA HA... <sigh>
-
- Sorry, but I find questions like this priceless. Absolutely priceless.
-
- Where did you get the idea that Prodigy is there to make your experiences
- with it pleasant and productive? Who told you that you were supposed to
- gain any sort of value from using Prodigy? If you find Prodigy of any
- use whatsoever, that is only a carrot to keep you docile and comfortably
- numb. You are not *supposed* to get any value from Prodigy, based on the
- following facts.
-
- Now, listen very carefully...
-
-
- PRODIGY sells a PRODUCT to a CUSTOMER
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- The PRODUCT is *you*, the user.
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- The CUSTOMER is the advertiser who wants to innundate you with
- it's own product, USELESS MARKET-BLATHER.
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- To allow the PRODUCT to limit the USELESS MARKET-BLATHER, would make the
- CUSTOMER very angry and thus, the CUSTOMER would no longer purchase the
- PRODUCT from Prodigy. This would cause Prodigy to go out of business,
- (which in my opinion would be a GOOD THING.)
-
- Any improvement in service from Prodigy will be doled out in eye-dropper
- quantities to the PRODUCT, you, since to actually provide new, better or
- more powerful services is not in the best interests of Prodigy. It
- would interfere with Prodigy's main goal of selling it's PRODUCT to it's
- CUSTOMER.
-
- (I would ***LOVE*** to hear from Prodigy regarding this analysis.)
-
- Supporting Prodigy is retrogressive and counter to the growing tide of
- information service users who demand real service.
-
- Support the Internet Society, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and
- the rest of us dedicated to bringing real, mensurate and usable services
- into the hands of every citizen of the world, for little or no money.
-
- </rr>
- --
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