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Subject: Re: Info Needed on Prodigy Service
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 818, Message 9 of 9


I use Prodigy three to five times a week. I use it almost exclusively
for stock quotes and for doing stock trades. I think the service is
pretty primative, especially the mail servcies. The potential is
there, but their execution is stone-age. The number of useful things
you can do are very limited (for instance, the news part is a complete
waste.  You have to scan the news in the order they provide. There is
no capability to scan headlines and pick the stories you're interested
in, much less search-by-keyword capabilities.)

The only thing that keeps me using Prodigy is that the fee is fixed.
This is what I really respond to. Getting stock quotes/doing stock
trades is much cheaper via Prodigy than via something like Dow Jones
News Retrival (which I also subscribe to).


Randy Day

(Opinions expressed here are mine and mine only. They are not a reflection
of my employer's opinion.)