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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!sl
- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: PRODIGY - Speed, Cost, Usefulness, etc.
- Organization: Wimsey
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:24:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.222459.29455@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <2481@cthulhuControl.COM> <1947@coyote.UUCP> <BURLEY.92Aug27173624@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <BURLEY.92Aug27173624@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> burley@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes:
- >In article <1947@coyote.UUCP> drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake) writes:
- >
- > 1. Robert's analysis is as true for Prodigy as it is for ANY advertising-based
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- >And Prodigy does have differences from the other media you list. TV and
- >radio, as broadcast media, are free to anyone with a receiver; here, while
- >the advertising does slow down the delivery of information, it isn't charging
- >"product" (to use Robert's terms), i.e. viewers/listeners, for the privilege
- >of seeing/hearing both the advertising and the "useful" information. With
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- Many/some of the new cable channels such as CNN are charged for and
- definitely have advertising on them as well.
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