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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: Prodigy Responds to E-Mail Criticism
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Date: 29 Nov 90 00:53:08 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 856, Message 3 of 12


Prodigy management stated in the letter that Nigel Allen passed
along in volume 10, issue 850:

| With our launch nationwide on September 6th, we faced a business
| decision. We could continue to allow a small group of heavy messagers
| to keep pushing up the costs, and pass those costs on to the general
| membership in ever-higher fees.  Or we could ask those who received
| the most value from heavy personal messaging to pay in proportion to
| the value they receive.  There was only one fair choice.

But they chose both, didn't they?  They're surcharging for (in their
opinion) high volumes of email and also raising membership rates.


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