Xref: utzoo comp.misc:11413 comp.org.eff.talk:1429 alt.censorship:1215 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.censorship Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox... Message-ID: <1991Feb11.061828.20234@looking.on.ca> Date: 11 Feb 91 06:18:28 GMT References: <1991Feb6.141621.9765@javelin.es.com> Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 19 In article cmcurtin@bluemoon.uucp (Matthew Curtin) writes: >have an MS-DOS or Mac to get on). Besides that, CompuServe doesn't charge >EXTRA, EXTRA, EXTRA for email! Sure, there are surcharges and stuff, but This is unfair to Prodigy. Compuserve charges more than $12.50 per hour for any usable baud rate (if you call 1200 or 2400 usable) and so a mail message that takes 2 minutes to write costs over 40 cents (compared to Prodigy's 25 cents after the first 30 messages) to write and also costs money to read, perhaps around 8 to 10 cents if you deal with it in under 30 seconds. Face it folks, 25 cents per e-mail message with 30 included in the price is actually a good deal when compared to past e-mail pricing trends. Some new trends, including GEnie's unlimited e-mail (but no mailing lists) for $4.95/month, are better deals, and many here are used to the unusual deal of usenet/internet mail, but I am a bit surprised at the bad press Prodigy's gotten on this price change. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473