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From: ric@netcom.UUCP (Richard Bretschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: America Online
Message-ID: <4470@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 89 15:35:26 GMT
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mec@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (michael.e.connick) writes:

(Stuff about disadvantages of Prodigy deleted.)

>However, considering the price difference between it and America
>Online, I'll take Prodigy. Since I'm paying a flat rate per month, I'm
>not that concerned about speed. The interface I can live with. As for
>file downloading: comp.source.mac, Fidonet file requests, and Mac BBS's
>provide me with anything I'd ever want.

Speed is still an issue for me, even though I'm not paying money for
the extra time Prodigy takes, I can feel myself growing older waiting
for their little ads to redraw at the bottom of EVERY page of an article
I'm reading.  And the fact that if I want to keep an article (for furture
or offline reference) I have to print it!  Sorry, tcomm is supposed to 
be the vanguard of the paperless office, this is a step backward, at 40
characters per line no less!

Yes, I realize that these limitations are there to support (respectively)
the cheap cost of the system, the copyright of the authors, and older
Dinosaur-64 type machines.  They do not support me however.  I'll not be
continuing my Free subscription (nor do I expect to use it much through
the remaining intro period.)

Not angry, just convinced.

-- 
Richard A. Bretschneider              These are my words.  My employer's
Ric Bret                              words are often spoken in haste, and
RAB                                   rarely resemble my compassionate prose.