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- From: barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us (Mr Aaron Barnhart)
- Subject: Re: PRODIGY - Speed, Cost, Usefulness, etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.072654.8190@gagme.chi.il.us>
- Originator: barnhart@gagme
- Keywords: prodigy macintosh hoffman estates
- Lines: 51
- Sender: usenet@serveme.chi.il.us
- Organization: Evanston, Illinois
- References: <bond.714758068@khaki19> <2481@cthulhuControl.COM> <26AUG199211421434@juliet.caltech.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 07:26:54 GMT
-
- This is in reply to wcaw@juliet.caltech.edu (Wilisch, Wolf C. A.), who wrote:
- :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>
- :>
- :>Supporting Prodigy is retrogressive and counter to the growing tide of
- :>information service users who demand real service.
- :>
- :
- :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.
- :
-
- Oh god, that's just what we need, more unpretentious non-technical
- non-experts, people who don't care what the well-informed experts in
- our industry -- namely, every white male -- thinks about such pimples
- on technology's arse as Prodigy.
-
- Well, as long as us know-it-alls are slumming for a moment in the
- Waste Land of Prodigy, allow me to mention as how my alma mater,
- Northwes ... wait a minute.
-
- <trumpet> TA TA TA TAAAAHHHHH!
-
- *Northwestern University* subscribes to a Career Network that is using
- the Prodigy network so that users may cheaply hook up to a nationwide
- net of job and resume info. I talked with the services rep today and
- she made sure I knew they were just using the Prodigy *network* not its
- kitschy interface.
-
- Frankly, if Prod offered enough features and still charged a flat fee,
- with no hidden costs, I'd be on board. As it is, there are just enough
- customer-service reasons to avoid Prod without having to sound like
- such a prig -- but that's an expert for you.
-
- --
- Mr. Aaron Barnhart@gagme.chi.il.us -- posting from Evanston, Illinois
-