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Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox...
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Date: 7 Feb 91 17:56:38 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.234512.15712@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>
>Maybe things have changed since I used GEnie (3 or 4 years ago), but
>doesn't GEnie have connect-time charges?  

Indeed they have. GEnie now charges a FLAT RATE $4.95/month for non-prime
time access to their "star services" (a subset of their complete offering).
For other things, non-prime access is (I believe) $6/hr. I tried Prodigy under
their special trial offer, and cancelled it after loggin in a total of three
times (the last time was merely to show someone else how lame it was). I don't
subscribe to GEnie, but those I know who do subscribe agree that GEnie is a
MUCH better deal than Prodigy for everyone (with the possible exception of
rank beginner technophobes who can't figure out how to use Procomm PLUS).


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.
>
>--
>Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
>
>barmar@think.com
>{uunet,harvard}!think!barmar


-- 
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.