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From: vu1216@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Supreme Commander)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Prodigy
Keywords: Prodigy
Message-ID: <3055@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 20:20:18 GMT
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Reply-To: vu1216@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu.cc.binghamton.edu (Supreme Commander)
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I used to be a member of Prodigy back when they used to give out free
test memberships. I absolutely hated the system. First of all the
graphics are not all that good, and you wait for minutes for your
screen to re-draw. And that is, when it used to re-draw. At times the
machine would just sit there, and sit there. Eventually, about five
minutes later, it would log off giving you an error code. The first
time this happened I called up the toll-free support number and asked
them what happened. they said it was due to a system overload, and all
I had to do was call back. Easy enough.

However, this happened day after day after day. Sometimes I would log
on, wait three minutes for the main screen, move to another section,
wait three minutes, etc. Your patience gets quickly exausted. So, I
told them to cancel, and they were very surprised. They were moving to
a new, better, facility and would give me another free month, would I
stay? Sigh, sure.

They moved, nothing got better, in fact it got worse. A month later,
things were no better than earilier and I cancelled.

Since then, I've moved from the videotext to something called Pc-Link
which in my opinion is far better. It includes downloadable files,
access to news/stocks etc, all for $5 a month, or $9 depending on the
going promotion.


                          ...Manu