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From: ahd@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Info needed on Prodigy and recent e-mail charges
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.120409.5608@news.clarkson.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 90 12:04:09 GMT
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Sender: ahd@clutx.clarkson.edu (Drew Derbyshire)
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From article <26036.27125a82@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, by huff@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu:
> Recently I read that Prodigy began charging for e-mail transmissions.
> Today my boss asked me about Prodigy, and he wasn't too happy when I
> told him about the charge.  Can somebody tell me where to find information,
> preferably published, about the charges?

Prodigy will start charging for excess of 30 messages a month; I saw
this commented on in S. Katt's Rumor Central in PC Week a couple of
weeks back.

More problems with Prodigy mail:

	No upload/download of files (you can print them).
	It appears one addressee per note
	No timestamp on notes, only date stamps.
	It has full screen editor, but no normal editing functions
		word wrap-- no cut and paste, no global change.
	Messages cannot be resent- you blow an address, you get to type
		the message in again.
	Text lines can only be 37 characters per line, and messages can
		only be 60 of these truncated lines.

I got Prodigy last week, I am dropping it this week.

-ahd-

Drew Derbyshire

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