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- From: wcaw@juliet.caltech.edu (Wilisch, Wolf C. A.)
- Subject: Re: PRODIGY - Speed, Cost, Usefulness, etc.
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:42:00 GMT
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- In article <2481@cthulhuControl.COM>, raisch@Control.COM (Robert Raisch) writes...
- >bond@rtsg.mot.com (Allan Bond) writes:
- >
- >>** 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
- >
- >
- >
- > The PRODUCT is *you*, the user.
- >
- >
- >
- > The CUSTOMER is the advertiser who wants to innundate you with
- > it's own product, USELESS MARKET-BLATHER.
- >
- >
- >
- >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>
- >--
- >"Nobody knows the tourbles I've seen." ...And I'm not even wearing any trousers.
-
- While I must agree with most of what has been said about P* in this group, P*
- doe have one advantage. For people who do not have access to USENET and who
- are really only interested in participating in bulletin boards and the
- occasional e-mail, P* offers to very cheap alternative to, e.g. CompuServe and
- America Online. Granted it is excrutiatingly slow and the ad clutter is most
- annoying, but I know a few people who are not too worried about things taking
- a bit longer or the screen looking crowded. My wife sometimes spends hours
- on P* (as well as on USENET), and I would hate paying CompuServes prices
- ($13.- per hour for their 'forums') for that. In general, Prodigy doesn't
- measure up to other services, but in certain specifics, it has its uses, I
- find.
-
- Cheers
-
- Chris W
-