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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Subject: Re: Anyone using prodigy with an AMIGA?
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In article <1991May5.205134.665@bilver.uucp> alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich) writes:
>In article <1991May02.160135.20734@convex.com> swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
>[lots of quotes about how Prodigy must be stealing private data deleted]

Pay attention, Alex.  I never said that "Prodigy must be stealing
private data."  If I did, then produce the quote.  Otherwise shut up.

What I said was that if the information contained within the quoted
article was actually true, then Prodigy is lowlife scum.  I stand by
that statement.

>COME ON PEOPLE!  You are making a fuss about what is probably nothing at
>all.  Doesn't anybody realize that under MSDOS, when a program allocates
>file space for itself on the hard disk, that space may contain fragments
>of files that used to occupy that space?  When you allocate file space,
>the space is NOT cleared.

Did you even read the article?

Let me refresh your memory.

From my article (quoting another article):
                          [...]
>     I TRIED THE TESTS SUGGESTED IN 'FRAUDIGY.ZIP' WITH A VIRGIN
>'PRODIGY' KIT.  I DID TWO INSTALLATIONS, ONE TO MY OFT USED HARD
>DRIVE PARTITION, AND ONE ONTO A 1.2MB FLOPPY.  ON THE FLOPPY
>VERSION, UPON INSTALLATION (WITHOUT LOGGING ON), I FOUND THAT THE
>FILE 'STAGE.DAT' CONTAINED A LISTING OF EVERY .BAT AND SETUP FILE
>CONTAINED IN MY 'C:' DRIVE BOOT DIRECTORY.

Now, if you had bothered to read this, you would have realised that
he is talking about a seperate installation onto a floppy.

*You* tell *me* how a listing of his hard drive .BAT and setup files got
installed into the prodigy data file on his floppy?

Then Alex said... :
>2) Then, run Prodigy.  From a floppy, to make the test more conclusive, if
>necessary.  When you are through I'll bet that the Prodigy files STAGE.DAT
>and CACHE.DAT won't contain anything but Prodigy-related data.

I guess you really *didn't* read the article, huh?

There were other things mentioned in the quoted article that further
demonstrate premeditated data-snarfing.  I never certified that they were
actually true.  But the things mentioned in the article cannot happen by
accident.

-Steve