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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox...
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Date: 6 Feb 91 23:45:12 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.185416.20695@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) writes:
>But why would anyone, especially someone net.aware, spend $12.95 a month to
>get those things from Prodigy (at their gawdawfully slow data rate) when 
>the same things are available from GEnie for only $4.95/month?

Maybe things have changed since I used GEnie (3 or 4 years ago), but
doesn't GEnie have connect-time charges?  The figure $5/hour springs to
mind, so Prodigy beats GEnie if you would use the latter more than 1.5
hours/month.

Also, Prodigy is specifically aimed at the non-net.aware, who would
probably be put off by the traditional text-based GEnie interface.

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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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