Like you, John, I discussed *P and said that I was one of probably dozens who had sent him one of those free subscription packets (I have no idea if *P still does it). Turned out it was a revelation to him.
“I was wondering why I kept getting subscriptions in the mail occasionally!” And we had a whole discussion on the net, which boils down to that he wasn’t really crazy about getting onto the nets (Compuserve, *P, etc.) because he saw how addicting it is for a friend of his, but that occasionally he gets copies of stuff from the various nets…All in all, a REAL nice guy.
*P is probably supposed to be P*, an abbreviation for Prodigy, which was a competitor of Compuserve, the main Internet Service Provider in the US at the time (before AOL).
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