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Re: Prodigy

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From: Phil Ngai
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 18:09
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cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:
>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 agree, the difference between Prodigy and USENET is startling.
I don't plan to go back to Prodigy until they raise the
expected IQ of their audience to at least three digits.

It's the USA Today of networks.

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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Prodigy
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Date: 22 Mar 91 18:09:42 GMT
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