Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!coplex!dannie
From: dannie@coplex.uucp (Dannie Gregoire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Prodigy
Keywords: garbage, trash net, hellfire
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.221625.18736@coplex.uucp>
Date: 26 Feb 91 22:16:25 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.034644.14053@infonode.ingr.com> <1991Feb23.220538.22577@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> <5361@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Copper Electronics, Inc.
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I bitch to prodigy about once a month about when they are going to do a port
to the Amiga.  I call their 1-800 number and tell them I own an Amiga and
want to know when they are going to port it.  They put me on hold for
several minutes to figure out what the hell I am asking for, then say "I
don't know."

One time I was feeling particularly irate and demanded to talk to someone about
the port.  Eventually, I got in touch with the head programmer at Prodigy 
(his name escapes me at the moment).  His main contingency is that they
"do not have the finances to do the Amiga port at the moment and that a port
in the future is not out of the question"

I have used prodigy and have found it to be not that bad of a service.  It
does however have a long way to go before it matures though.  It needs some 
more productive activities word processors, etc to be useful for the long term.
As it is right now, it gets to be VERY boring after you use it for a while.


The ads are really not all that anoying and are quite nice if you enjoy junk
mail like I do ;-).  Most ads have a send me more info box that you can 
select.  The company's brochures will automatically be sent to you via
your address that prodigy has.  A lot of the ads will send you free 
discount coupons etc. Most of the ads do have this junk mail feature or
let you order the product online.

The $.25 per letter charge is bull shit though.  It hardly costs prodigy
money to copy a file from one place on their computer to another!

Prodigy will send you a FREE 30 account with their software.  So if you
are going to reverse engineer it you might as well get it for free.  And
if you dont like the service keep the disks and erase the software.  Order
several copies and you'll never have to buy a disk again ;-)  

Prodigy FREE 30 day trail -- 1-800-776-3552  Ext. 353
They will ask for some such number which appears on their mailer brochure
but just tell them you heard about them from a friend.  And while you're
on the phone bitch about the Amiga port ;-)

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