>I read so many posts from people describing problems associated with >using Emailer through AOL, TOS problems with AOL, etc. I can't help >asking- why do so many bother with AOL?
I used to keep my AOL for a few reasons. 1: Because some old friends only had that address, and I didn't want to cut them off. Many of them I didn't/don't have email addresses for, so I couldn't advise them of a change. 2: Chat rooms 3: Software downloads 4: Kid access 5: Work related reasons Now I have eliminated the following reasons because of: 1: Any old friends this applied to are now going on 6 years out... if they haven't contacted me via that address yet... they aren't likely to at all. 2: Chat rooms suck now (at least AOL ones do... sorry, it seems you either have to be into cyber-sex, or be under 14 to enjoy them.... I'm not under 14, and I get enough real sex to not care about the cyber kind) 3: Version-Tracker, Downloads.com, and a million other web and FTP archives are far more up to date and better stocked than AOL 4: I only ever had my nephew using AOL's Kid access features... he is now 13, and a bit above the kid level stuff (but I guess he still finds chat rooms fun... who knows) That leaves me with 5: Work Related. Which is why I am doing to the $5 a month plan, and I check it once a week if I remember to check it at all. It is really there for times like a few minutes ago, when a client was having problems getting an attachment I was sending them, so they asked me to send to their AOL address... and I then used my AOL account to send the attachment, since AOL to AOL seems works best for AOL attachments, and if they told me one more time they didn't get it... I was going to have to kill them. That is my one and only reason at this point that I keep my AOL account. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
