From: imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar)
Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:46:16 GMT
Organization: IMRAN: Information & Media Resources, Affiliations, Networks

In article <1992Dec18.092947.26001@news.acns.nwu.edu> alasnik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Lasnik) writes:
>In <1992Dec17.183205.16889@panix.com> imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Dec17.093846.11906@leland.Stanford.EDU> jimbo@leland.Stanford.EDU (Godfather of Soul) writes:
>>>In article <1992Dec17.075003.3502@news.acns.nwu.edu> alasnik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Lasnik) writes:
>>>>Prodigy has:
>>>>---stronger and more utilized bulletin boards
>
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>--Prodigy's bulletin boards are posted to more frequently and by a greater
>number of people than Compuserve's

Yet I still find more useful postings on CIS (and even on GEnie if I can
get myself to log in and wander through the maze of menues)

>--Prodigy's users are more representative of the makeup of America as a whole
>(i.e. minority and women users, as well as computer hackers and neophytes)
>

If that were the reason for using a computer service then I guess we should
all get off internet, I don't think internet is representative of the US
population! 

>>>>--More services offered for a flat fee
>
>>Like what?  30 email messages sent through the ugliest stupidest interface
>>and then EACH additional message is 25 cents.  Wow, that is value for money.
>
>Hmm... Compare it Compuserves basic services.  Does THAT program offer
>unlimited e-mail?  

The $9 credit is ample in my humnle opinion PLUS it has gateways, so even though
GEnie may offer unlimted email where can you send it all?

>No.  GEnie at $4.95 for unlimited e-mail seems to be the
>best deal around.  I must admit that Prodigy's current mail system leaves MUCH
>to be desired, however.  Note that they will be introducing a new system
>within three months, though...

Oh, so I will have to re-re-try them again!

>

>Imitation is smart :-)  Look at Compuserve introducing a flat fee area...
>hmm... wonder who started that, eh? :-)

Not Prodigy, I think it was GEnie that started it.


>>>>--A computer bulletin board INCLUDED in flat rate service (HA!)
>
>>See if you can post anything about Prodigy there - try posting something
>>critical of Prodigy - if you remember they even CENSORED people's *email*
>>on Prodigy and it became such a major issue some months ago.
>
>I strongly challenge you to prove your statement about censored e-mail.  I
>truly believe that's a rumor.  Regarding bulletin board censorship... Really? 
>with subject titles like "Prodigy Sucks" "Compusex me!" and "Masturbation
>techniques"... you think there's that much censorship?  Where have YOU been
>hiding? <grin>

Then you obviously do not read newspapers (or forget easily ;-)  ) There
wasa MAJOR national debate when Prodigy members were kicked out because 
they were exchanging m,essages about Prodigy's faults and their email
was censored.  I do not have the whole story but you can easily dig it out.
I even remember storie in the NY Times etc.

Criticism of a service and posting messages like MAS^%$IU^ IS FUN etc
are very different things.

>
>>>>--More national members than Compu$erve.
>
>>I don't know what the numbers are but frnakly the almost one million on 
>>Compuserve are more than enouigh for me - I like CIS not because there are
>>100 users more than XYZ service or 100,000.  It offers more, and thats
>>what I like
>
>Fair enough.

Thanks.

>
>>>>--a more diverse user base (that's my subjective opinion, however)
>
>>Whatever that means.
>
>See my note above.

And see mine too about internet being non-representative and hence a bad
choice by that token.

>>That kind of competitive movement in the industry means more for our
>>money no matter what service we use.
>
>Gotta agree with you on that one!  And I also like the CIS Manager interface
>from what I've seen.

I also like the America Online front end but that is a service I decided 
to stay away from more to save time and money than anything else.  the
value added was not more than I dont get from CIS + internet.


>
>>Imran
>
>--ADAM "KEYS" LASNIK
>
>P.S. -- I do think the accusation of anti-semitism was out of line from that
>other guy.  As a Jew, I think *I* should feel free to criticize IBM or Israel
>or any other company or nation, and I think you should have that right as well
>without being judged by your name.

Sorry, I must have missed this.  What was this anti-semitism thing about?

Imran Anwar


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