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To: Lyle Bean who wrote (5011)	2/13/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Respond to of 41369

It was a Prodigy problem. The blue screen came up even when Prodigy was not sitting on top of Windows, but running off DOS. Trust me on this. I was with Prodigy for many years, when everyone was laughing at AOL, until Prodigy died because they could not keep up either with technological change or the shifting online marketplace. When chat was growing, they stuck to bulletin boards. When open discussion was growing, they went to censorship. It was too bad, as I really liked Prodigy and hated to see it dying. Their Sears partnership did not help either, that's for sure. Then they tried to go mainline internet, and bumbed up against a lot of stiff competition. Now they are trying to go public, and I wish them all the best, but I think they are a day late and a dollar short. Might be a good play for a month or so, but if I were you I would be very careful as soon as I saw insiders unloading. Good luck.