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Even then it had potential, but now the most vurnable online system in america has new features for the underground world to take advantage of. Prodigy will now; Send faxes for you, allow you to recieve Internet Mail, Send U.S. Mail and a few other things. What is better though is that Prodigy always assumes that you are a good customer and does not really look at each user as a potential loss of profit. So prodigy is free game and easy to get in to.. Even little 13 year old jerkoffs can make fake accounts on prodigy. I hope that after reading this document you will have enough information to become as the prodigy local lamers call it 'A Prodigy God' and make the morons do your bidding. _0.2_S.O.B._ S.O.B. stands for Servants Of Babuska. We are a small group, but when we got on to prodigy as the only real hacking group around we where meet with open arms and kids who where willing to do anything just to get a text file. Our group which has been together for about two years has stayed local with a few members on prodigy and we just concentrated on getting into the systems in town. Well, I the author and current group leader got into a nice system in middle Texas when I found out about the bug in the billing system. So I decided to write the document for two reasons 1) To upload it to other systems and get on the good side of SysOps and get some file points 2) To tell the world that we are here. So here it is, the first of possibly many documents by me.. Dave S.O.B. Oh well I guess that's enough.. on with the document. _1.1_Table Of Contents_ _0.1_Introduction _0.2_S.O.B. Introduction _1.1_Table Of Contents _1.2_Disclaimer _1.3_A Warning or two _2.1_Prodigy Account Structure _2.2_Adding More Accounts _2.3_Logging on for the first time _2.4_Method of Payment or How the hell are you going pay us _3.1_A Flaw in the Bug _4.1_A list of popular abbreviations on Prodigy _5.1_Bulletin Boards or Message Bases _6.1_Prodigy Clubs _6.2_How to Destroy a Prodigy Club _6.3_A List of some Prodigy Clubs _7.1_Ordering and downloading programs from Prodigy _8.1_Custom Choices _9.1_Your Mailbox _10.1_Mail Manager _11.1_Your Internet Adress _12.1_Having fun with Prodigy _13.1_Closing Notes _1.2_Disclaimer_ This Document was written for the sole purpose of informing the world about the prodigy service and some of the potential it has. Any real life use of the document is not my fault. Thou I do not condone it, I do not recommend it. _1.3_A Warning or Two_ While on Prodigy never give out your real name or phone number. Some of those kids might get mad at you and turn you in. Their a fickle lot so make sure and keep your indentity safe. Also never use your own adress when sending things by Credit Card to your house.. always put an abandonded house or a willing idiots adress so you can pick up whatever you want. _2.1_The Prodigy Account Structure_ Unlike many other online systems that use numeric combinations for naming their accounts Prodigy uses a very easy to remember alpha-numeric code assigned to each account. The sample of which goes like this.. AAAA00A. The first four letters and two numbers indicate the account itself, the last letter tells what household member it is. You see, when you get your prodigy account you recieve an 'A' Account or the parent account who supposedly pays for everything, he is also the only one they ask for an adress for. But from this 'A' account you can create 5 other branch accounts which your friends can use. So the 6 accounts would look like this: AAAA00A, AAAA00B, AAAA00C, AAAA00D, AAAA00E and AAAA00F. The 'A' account controls acess to the other accounts. This was orginally made so that the parent could control what their kids where doing and that each household resident could have his personal account. Also accompenied with the A account is a temporary or 'intial sign on' password. It is a 6 letter combination like wjsjfu. It is also used when the branch accounts log in for the first time. After you log in once you can set the password to your own prefrence up to 10 letters. _2.2_Adding more accounts_ Ok, so you logged on and made an account now you want to make some branch accounts for your friends to log on with and use as well. Ok, go to the bottom of the screen and click the TOOL function. Then go to the Add A Member menu. From their it will take you to another member.. go to adding another household member. Then add an account. Make sure to allow use of Plus Serivices or your friends cannot use the Bulletin Boards . There you go, give your friend their account name and the intial logon password which should be on the add a member screen. They can log on and add their own information name and the like. _2.3_Logging on for the first time_ Ok, you just got the A account and the intial password. You have two options.. you can set the number to you local Tymenet site or let the program call the Prodigy Number Directory where it will give you your local number to call to log on. Either way it is safe. Ok, you will see a little screen after you connect to the Prodigy Service which will say Prodigy Enrollment. It will then ask you for your name, adress, phone number, Date Of Birth and method of payment. Ok... Your name can be anything.. I am Mau'Dib Gates currently. Your adress should be an abondened house or a willing reciepent so you can reicieve any packages you order. The phone number does not need to be provided.. but doing so does not hurt. Ok, now for the Date Of Birth.. Make sure you put your self at atleast 18 which you have to be for prodigy to let you own the A account. But don't make yourself over 20 or you can't use the 'Teens Bulletin Board' which is where alot of people always are. Ok.. next comes the method of payment which is really how the hell are you going to pay us. This is where the bug comes in.. and I will describe it in detail next. _2.4_Method Of Payment or How the Hell are you going to pay us Ok, here comes the long awaited bug. It will ask you what you would like to pay by.. Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover, Check or Prodigy Auto Pay. Prodigy Auto Pay is where they debit your fees directly from your banking account. Check is ok but you can't get into the premium services with it. So choose a credit card.. Then get an old credit card number you have that you know the company will reject but numerically is correct. In other words a credit card that looks ok numerically but will be rejected by the company... Why you ask? This is the bug. After Prodigy finds out that the Credit Card is bad and the company is specific won't pay for it they will send you a nice friendly letter saying it was and that the bill will be sent to the adress you gave them. But according to Prodigy's Billing Computer you are paying by credit card and you owe them nothing. _3.1_A flaw in the bug_ Even though the Billing Computer will be fooled the rest of the system won't be.. so sign up for any of the 'Custom Choices' you want before the credit card is rejected.. you usually have a few days to do this. _4.1_Popular Abbreviations in use on Prodigy Ok.. Now you are on Prodigy and you read the notes they left.. Now what the hell are they saying.. what does ROTFL mean? For the abbreviation ignorant here comes a list of popular abbreviations used on Prodigy. -Grin -Big Grin -Very Big Grin -Evil Grin -Very Evil Grin -Smile -Laugh -Rolling on the floor laughing -Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off :) -Smile :> -Smile =] -Smile :( -Frown :~( -Crying p* -Prodigy *p -Prodigy h* -Hacking or Hackers b* -Bashing or Bashers ID -Prodigy Account eye dee -Prodigy Account I|) -Prodigy Account BB -Bulletin Board RS -Rebel Space RPG -Role Playing Game RP -Role Playing UG -Someones mailbox used for private conversations _5.1_Bulletin Boards or Message Bases_ Bulletin Boards or BB's for short is where you can talk to other prodigy members. There are many subjects.. Teens, Games, Arts, Computer BB and others. But they are censored.. you cannot openly cuss . Unless you are on one of the Custom Choice bulletin board's. A Custom Choice is a game or service that prodigy charges you extra to use beacuse it is better. And the BB's that the Custom Choice's have usually have something called auto posting or instant posting, which means that the post is not censored and goes up the moment you click the send button. These Auto Post BB's are the closest thing to live chat you can have where more than one person can respond and talk with no delay on waiting for a response other than his slow typing speed. Now, when you get into a BB it will have a little menu. It will say oldest notes to look for, which basicly means look at notes that where posted since the date and time you specify. The next is wether or not to include older posts that include replies that where made after the date and time you specified. Then comes the topic selection. From there you can pick the topic of which you want to read from. Next will come To and From where you can specify all posts that a person made or sent to him. You don't put his name, you put his prodigy account name. Then there is begin reading notes which will let you pick a note in the topic you picked to start reading. All notes are alphabatized for order. Next is the Exclude ID function. With this you can input some people's ID that whose posts you would rather not see. Then the last choice will be Wite a Public Note.. this function will let you write a new note of your prefrence that can start up your own conversation. _6.1_Prodigy Clubs_ Most of the people on Prodigy like to band together in clubs. There are three types of clubs on Prodigy. There is a Talk Club, a Talk Club is where the members just socialize and talk. Then there is a RP club, where the members pretend to be someone else and have a community of sorts. Finnaly there are the little bash and hack clubs. On Prodigy a Basher is someone who goes around and insults people.. they are harmless but annoying. A Prodigy Hacker is usually just someone who has a couple of text files, or has a couple of Prodigy Accounts or likes to try to guess people's passwords. So all these clubs are pretty pathetic, but they can be a pain in the ass to you when you are trying to do something. So you have two options.. befriend them and trade knowledge for their services . Or you can try to get rid of them. Most of these basher clubs have divisions. A hacker division and Basher Division etc.. they try to structure their members like military men. They also have spies which are people who use a seperate prodigy ID to assume another alias and join another club. Prodigy clubs love to fight on another. _6.2_Destroying A Prodigy Club_ Though it may seem stupid at first these bands of morons can be annoying when you are trying to do something or if you move into their 'terrirtory'. Usually showing them how lame their leader is or just continual public bashing will drive them apart and send them on their seperate ways. _6.3_A List of some clubs_ You are bound to run into one so why not know who they are eh? EOTH - Empire of the Huns. These guys are mostly a bunch of 14-16 year old lamers who are lead by a guy named Blue Tooth. Their objective is to 'control' ever Prodigy BB. Unfortanetly since Prodigy does not like bashers they always get their notes deleted and their accounts cancled alot sooner than anyone elses LOP - I'm not sure what LOP stands for but I know the guy who formed it. He calls himself Dragon Slayer... he's alright. They are mostly a talk club. AWP - Anyone Want to Party. AWP is one of the bigger and lamer of the talk clubs out there. All they do is talk an throw little 'parties' where they all get together and supposedly dance. MED - Or Juanolia is a RP Club.. it is set in medieval times and they just sit around. XTC - Extacy is another little Talk Club with a bash and hack 'division'. PUO - Prodigy Underground Organization. This does not really exist.. some little lamer named White Knight made this up to try to trick me out of my real name. Acid Alliance - Thou this does exist on Delphi it does NOT exist on prodigy it is just another lie by White Knight. TC - Total Chaos. This clubs orginal intention was to some day put a virus into prodigy main system.. make it crash and a little screen saying TC come up. How ever after showing them that with what little they knew this would be frankly impossible they became just another club. Well.. that's all the major ones I can think of right now, If I ever decide to update this document I will add on to it. _7.1_Ordering and Downloading things from Prodigy_ Every time you go to a Prodigy merchant and order something it asks you to enter a credit card. Thus you can use diffrent ones every time. One good thing about this is that Prodigy does not care about name or experiation dates they only care if the number seems valid. This is especially nice when you are want to buy a program that they will let you download online.. all you need is to run checksum to generate a few credit card numbers and you have many free downloads to come. _8.1_Custom Choices_ Now when prodigy makes something they consider to be especially good they want to charge you extra for it. So they call it a custom choice.. or if you want it .. you got to pay extra. A few Custom Choice included .. Rebel Space - A Game where you and other players go head to head in Intergalatic combat while an old empire is falling and new alliances are being made.. There BB the Stargate Cafe has auto posting.. I can usually be found there. The Prodigy Network Golf Tour - This allows you to play against other Prodigy members in a gmae of golf. It is done offline and your scores and courses are downloaded to you. Baseball Manager - A Fantasy Baseball League where you play against other Prodigy Members. Fantasy Football League - Own and run your own NFL team. Compete against other players. These are the games.. there are also some other stock managers and the like you can use. _9.1_Your Mailbox_ Each account has it's own seperate mailbox. In this mailbox you can recieve letters from other users and since Prodigy tries to 'keep the ut most privacy of your mail.. you can usually trade information such as credit cards and codes through that without worry. Mail boxes can also be used as UG's which is where all your friends have acess and everyone can have a discussion without having to worry about prodigy Censors. Oh.. UG stands for Underground. Unfortanetly Prodigys account will only let one person use them at a time.. So if you are using it and another person logs on.. you get knocked off.. _10.1_Mail Manager .. your friend and mine It took Prodigy awhile to make an offline mail manager and when they did they made a nice one. With such features as a Internet mail, File Transfers, US Mail, Sends Faxs and allows you to download your mail. And for the low 'cost' of 4.95 charged to your account it can be YOURS! Mail Manager will keep all your mail so that you never will lose any important information sent to you. _11.1_Your Internet Adress Each account has its very own Internet Adress.. which is your account name and .prodigy.com Like this: AAAA00A.Prodigy.Com. Unfortanetly Internet mail can only be read offline. No direct Internet acess is being granted yet but there are rumors that it is coming soon. _12.1_Having fun with Prodigy Here a few things you can do.. 1) Once you make your account you can change your first name any time you want.. such as Fuck You Smith.. or Mike Rotch etc.. etc.. 2) Go to the TV BB.. there you will find the Save by the Bell fan club. Hours of fun for the whole family. 3) Have fun with lonely little girls.. etc.. etc.. etc.. etc.. etc.. _13.1_Closing Notes_ Oh well.. that was it... just a short document about Prodigy. There is more .. but that can be saved for another time. I hope what I have given to you the reader was worth your reading time. I invite you and anyone else to come onto Prodigy and help stop the Lamer envistation that seems to plague Prodigy. So I look forward to a Prodigy in the future where some of the elite community will come to speak freely and anonymously to the rest of us and just have a decent time... See ya there, Dave S.O.B.