As per earlier discussions here, off-shore services are often not what you expect from them. A large quick service restaurant moved their on-line help desk offshore. After many franchisee complaints, it moved back into the USA. And yes, the AOL pages can be slow. There are usually 7-9 headline pages with links to scroll thru. Invariably, of the 28 to 36 story links across the pages, one doesn't load anything. Us users just wander around in cyberspace with a blank page - no content! Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Christian <christ...@skofteland.net> wrote: > AOL still makes about $3 Billion a year off dial-up subscribers (what we > call the access business). We are now no longer an advertising company as > we were for a few years but now we are a "Content" company and we have a new > service that assigns stories based on page views etc. > > I'm surprised the pages take time for you to load. Just using a browser > like Firefox and going to aol.com I find everything is quite fast. We just > recently "re-launched" when we broke away from Time Warner with a new logo > and a "cleaner" home page. > > Anyway, looks like the ride for me may be over. I work with a great bunch > of people in the email operations group and it will be sad to see the place > gutted. > > > -- > > Christian > http://404mohawknotfound.blogspot.com/ > > Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> Sorry about that. >> I never understood AOL's business model. >> When they cut back on hosting web pages, >> I cut back from $29/month to $10/month. >> I can go to $0 when you leave. >> I find the interface is getting more cumbersome, >> and the time it takes to link to their web pages is often long. >> This wasn't noticeable on a dial-up service, but is on a high speed line. >> I just leave the AOL site when a page takes more than 5-10 seconds to >> load. >> I'm looking to deprive them of eyeballs and ad revenue. >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Christian <christ...@skofteland.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> Joseph McAllister wrote: >>> >>>> FYI. I finally figured out how to stop the 30-50 unwanted emails a day I >>>> was having to trash in Mac Mail. >>>> >>>> I killed my AOL account. >>>> >>> :( >>> >>> I probably won't have a job when I get back from Oz in January. 1,100 >>> people took the voluntary separation package which leaves another 1,400 >>> to >>> get axed early next year. They just opened 33 sysadmin jobs... in >>> India. >>> I shoulda taken that package.... >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Christian >>> http://404mohawknotfound.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
