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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Is Prodigy safe to use?
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.134727.22081@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 90 13:47:27 GMT
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Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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>I'm not saying that PRODIGY *would* do anything unscrupulous such as
>read/write from files other than what is needed for terminal updates, but
>that they COULD, and do you want to run that risk just to get free
>updates on-line?

Also considering that PRODIGY is run by 'suits' in the Marketing
Dept, I'm sure they can come up with an excuse to investigate
what other software you are running. After all, they now grab
scanner data from the supermarkets for such questions as: 
	Do folks who buy toilet paper on sale also buy Preparation-H?

Can looking at your spreadsheet data be far behind?

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