Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!bobsbox!graphics!elund From: elund@graphics.rent.com (Eric W. Lund - Subop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Prodigy Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 06:43:01 GMT References: Organization: Raven Enterprises, Piscataway NJ Lines: 23 cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes: > Prodigy's news service is a mediocre digest of material that's widely availab > in other, better formats. The bulletin boards are greatly inhibited in tone > content, not just by the graphics-mode problem, but by apparently heavy-hande > and unpredictable censorship (not just of "bad words" and the like, but purel > at the censor's whim). Compared with the freewheeling and diverse content of > Usenet, Prodigy feels like a straitjacket. I'd be interested to hear other > people's experiences with, and opinions about, Prodigy. I was a subscriber to Prodigy for a year, and the only thing that kept me there was the $12/month flat rate and free email. The censorship was annoying as hell -- I ran into it many times. So, I just avoided the public boards. I was using *p* mainly for the email anyhow. And then they dropped the final barbell: 25 cent charge on email. Goodbye. It took effect January 1st, and I was out of there the day before. Prodigy is going down the tubes, and most of their income comes from silly users who get it in a bundled system or some similar way, and who don't user it but are too lazy to cancel because it's only 12 bucks a month. %^O Most of my email friends there and I moved to GEnie at the same time. The Star Services (includes email) are only $4.95/month. And finally I get to use Procomm again ...