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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 ...