phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) (03/27/91)
Can mail be sent from the internet to Prodigy and back?
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phillips@lcp.nrl.navy.milptrei@mbunix.mitre.org (Trei) (03/27/91)
In article <DrPHILLIPS.91Mar26133225@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil> phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) writes: >Can mail be sent from the internet to Prodigy and back? > Lee Phillips NO Prodigy possesses the following characteristics: * Lack of communication with the outside world. * Boards of censors who cut anything deemed "controversial" from Prodigy's bboards, including anything critical of Prodigy's policies. * Suppression of internal communication: Email is charged at 25 cents per message beyond 1 message/day. * Exile of dissidents (their accounts are cancelled). I used to describe Prodigy as the Albania of commercial bboards, but the Tirana regime has lightened up a little since then. Peter Trei OBDisclaimer: My employer pays me for my skills, not my opinions.
rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) (03/27/91)
In article <DrPHILLIPS.91Mar26133225@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil> phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) writes: >Can mail be sent from the internet to Prodigy and back? I seriously doubt it. Prodigy is so paranoid about what gets on their system that all public messages are censored _before_ they can be posted, and their computers check out EMail looking for "offensive" words. For them to hook up to one of the nets would be like anti-matter embracing matter.
rauscher@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Rauscher) (03/27/91)
Quite simply, prodigy sucks if you've ever used the internet.
When I used it I remember:
1) No "chat" mode to talk to other users
2) One bandwidth-hogging advertisement per a screen
3) A complete waste of ten dollars a month
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yuk.
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In article <DrPHILLIPS.91Mar26133225@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil> phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) writes: >Can mail be sent from the internet to Prodigy and back? I'd like to know too.. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= mattl@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu ! Swapping memory to disk is virtually indespensible.. mal6315@ultb.rit.edu ! ---------------------------------------------------- mal6315@RITVAX ! new book: "#define art of C programming..."