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To: bob who wrote (26936)	1/23/1999 12:39:00 PM
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Prodigy, first victim of Y2K!! Saturday January 23 1:28 AM ET Y2K Forces Close of Online Service By TED BRIDIS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Citing the Year 2000 computer problem, Prodigy Communications Corp. is telling its 208,000 subscribers it will shut down its pioneer ''Prodigy Classic'' online service. Prodigy notified customers nationwide by e-mail late Friday it could not avoid the effects of the so-called ''Y2K'' problem and by October must shut down one of the most well-established neighborhoods in cyberspace. The company said the Year 2000 problem was not expected to affect the 433,000 subscribers of its newer ''Prodigy Internet'' service, launched in late 1996, and it encouraged its Classic subscribers to enroll there. Prodigy's chief executive officer, Samer Salameh, sent e-mail to subscribers explaining that the company's 9-year-old Classic service was ''built using proprietary technologies that predate current Internet standards'' and the company's engineers were ''unable to make them Y2K compliant.'' ''I know that this announcement will be a disappointment to many of you,'' Salameh wrote. Prodigy also posted the announcement on its Web site.>>