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From: knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: would you recommend prodigy or compuserve?
Message-ID: <1217@levelland.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 17:52:35 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.231240.7433@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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In article <1991Mar24.231240.7433@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kingson@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Kingson Gunawan) writes:
>I am planning to join either prodigy or compuserve.  I know about the
>fact that prodigy censor their bulletin board but I don't really mind
>about that. 

It`s people like you who, with their complacency, make me worry about
the future of this country.

>What I need is the kind of service that I get for the amount of
>money I pay (in other word I need some sort of description
>of service per dollar paid ratio).
>
>Does prodigy has some sort of public domain programs for mac
>the way compuserve does thru zmac, etc.?

No. There are no facilities for downloading anything from Prodigy.
Prodigy so far has constitued the absolutely worst experience I have
had with on-line services. Their interface sucks, their ads suck,
their policies suck, their accounting sucks, the owners (IBM and
Sears) suck, ...

Edgar

(knapp@cs.utexas.edu)