Xref: utzoo comp.misc:11448 comp.org.eff.talk:1467 alt.censorship:1242 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu!scott From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.censorship Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox... Message-ID: <1991Feb13.181235.9795@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 18:12:35 GMT References: <1991Feb11.061828.20234@looking.on.ca> <1991Feb12.030202.9781@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 20 In article <1991Feb12.030202.9781@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: > >Oh yeah, in an earlier posting Brad mentioned stuff Prodigy could do that >Usenet can't. You can order groceries, for example. I was sold by that >one. For only seven dollars they'd pull my order off the shelves, bag it >and drive it out to me. But it turned out that you were paying full list >price for everything, And, just to tie in a thread from misc.consumers, just think of all the information about your buying habits Prodigy is collecting, storing, and then selling to the highest bidder. And to think, they charge you a PREMIUM to do so! From Prodigy's perspective, "What a Bargain!" -- 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.