Xref: utzoo comp.misc:11502 comp.org.eff.talk:1507
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!mcdchg!ddsw1!zane
From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox...
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.024407.25736@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 91 02:44:07 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.061828.20234@looking.on.ca> <44013@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Feb12.230101.17787@cbnewsh.att.com>
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL
Lines: 24

In article <1991Feb12.230101.17787@cbnewsh.att.com> wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes:
>In article <44013@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>> The two services are not comparable.  
>> You are required to type messages online with Prodigy.  
>> You are limited to 4 "pages" of 40 column text.
>
>I've seen Prodigy's stupid small screens, but does your contract
>with them REQUIRE you to use their terminal emulator?
>
>Could some enterprising hacker write an interface that at least
>gives you a human-readable screen and text upload/download
>using their protocols, or do they forbid that because you might turn
>off the advertising?  
>Alternatively, could you use their tools in a Windows window 
>with some sort of cut+paste TSR pretending to be you typing?
>
>Has anyone asked them to permit upgrades, even "censored" ones?
	I doubt it.  They probably have checks that would be nearly
impossible to duplicate, but it can be tried. . .(But they may revoke
your subscription if you do that. . .oh. no.)


-- 
zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM