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On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, Adam Gaffin wrote:

> > 
> > One test they also didn't seem to include was sending attachments by 
> > e-mail. I don't know about Prodigy, but I know from experience I can't 
> > send an attachment by e-mail to Compuserve or AOL. Attachments are easily 
> > the best feature of Internet e-mail.
That would dampen the demand for Lotus Notes :-).

> Some analyst wrote a long piece in the Wall Street Journal this week 
> about the travails of using the Internet as part of his business.  
> Basically, if something could go wrong, it did.  Buried in the column, 
> in a section about the difficulties of getting a long file to his 
> publisher, was this line:

Sounds like Walter Mossberg.

>      Eventually, the student splices the file, shrugs, and asks, "Like, 
>      why use Prodigy, anyway?"

This is typical of this particular author.  He once denounced the internet 
by comparing AOL with a uucp mail connection.  One of these days, 
Monmouth Junction will get a REAL internet connection (They have it, but 
Mossberg doesn't have access to it).

> So it would seem that, yes, Prodigy has some problems in that regard 
> (then again, Prodigy's never marketed itself as a way to distribute 
> important documents).
I prefer secretmail for that.  From Windows I attach an encrypted pkzip 
file in a mime packet using the eudora attach feature.

> Adam Gaffin

Rex Ballard


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