Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request
From: pj@oxy.edu (Paul Jonathan Estalilla Go)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Info Needed on Prodigy Service
Message-ID: <14605@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 90 01:14:31 GMT
Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
Lines: 24
Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 812, Message 4 of 6


I got my Prodigy start-up kit for free as a promo offer from Prodigy,
and I am now in the one month "trial" period.

(1) Prodigy is charging me $12.95/month + tax. Is this a new rate (as
the LA Times article on Prodigy users says that the rate used to be
$9.95/mo.)???

(2) My main use for Prodigy is to get stock quotes. Although their
quotes are loooong delayed, they are better than waiting for
tomorrow's newspaper.

(3) I am still debating whether to stay with Prodigy or not; I have a
Macintosh SE, and (a) it is SLOW; (b) I cannot take advantage of
color; (c) AOL has a much better user interface, albeit the per hour
charges.

(4) I am very disappointed in Prodigy. Their databases do not give me
the information I need, only traces here and there, and it is very
hard to navigate through the thing!!! AOL's news reporting was much
better, in my opinion.


Paul Jonathan E. Go