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From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott)
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Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox...
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Date: 6 Feb 91 18:54:16 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.035111.9270@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>In article <1991Feb5.230021.8317@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> chuck@mrcnext.uiuc.edu (charles bridgeland) writes:
>>	not a whole lotta reason anyone who can get 'here' (usenet/internet)
>>would be interested.
>
>Hmm.  Where's the Usenet/Internet encyclopedia (no -- the ability to ask
>questions of zillions of experts is not the same thing).  Is there an
>online store, stock quote service, airline guide, etc., on Usenet/Internet?

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?


-- 
Scott Coleman                                                      tmkk@uiuc.edu

"Unisys has demonstrated the power of two. That's their stock price today."
       - Scott McNealy on the history of mergers in the computer industry.