Xref: utzoo comp.misc:11418 comp.org.eff.talk:1434 alt.censorship:1220 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uicbert.eecs.uic.edu!uicvm!u23379 From: U23379@uicvm.uic.edu (Henry Young) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.censorship Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox... Message-ID: <91042.101105U23379@uicvm.uic.edu> Date: 11 Feb 91 16:11:05 GMT References: <1991Feb11.061828.20234@looking.on.ca> Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Lines: 35 > 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. >... >! Face it folks, 25 cents per e-mail message is less than the price of >! a stamp. The chance of timely delivery is similar. oh? I don't recall having to pay for every piece of mail I receive! Besides I could write my note on my pc, upload it, and send it easy enough... I was considering trying prodigy, but if they censure, forget it. If they were a foreign based service, I could see them getting away with it. But This is the US of A! As long as they censure (except the most extremely obnoxious users who abuse it), they should be avoided. Likewise if some jerk were to send me (or anyone) 10000+ notes, the receivers shouldn't be subject to paying for unsolicited mail! I don't use compuserve because they are expensive, but I would rather pay a higher upkeep for fair service.... Hum, They would probably be liable to lawsuits for this, especially if they still charge someone for sending a note that gets "CANNED"! Well, I've said my piece. - Henry Young -