On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 at 19:17:11, Roy wood wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> I was prompted into writing this by a couple of comments from other
>QL luminaries.
>On page 25 there is an advert by P. Merdinian to entice people to sign
>up to AOL.
>
>Does anyone else think this is
>
>a: Bad
>b: A dreadful company that sends out too many free disks causing a vast
>amount of landfill
>c: Out of place in a QL magazine
>d: Likely to get people who do not know any better to trash there
>machines Internet setting by installing AOL software.
>e: All of the above.
>
>Answers on a brick through AOLs window please.
e:
... but it has the advantage of being all in caps and with minimum
punctuation, so it is pretty impossible to read (8-)#
I was more struck by the tiny amount of copy in 4 months, and two pages
of that was 10 years old.
Mind you I hope we will be using a free AOL trial to get the US show
connected to the internet, so I had better not throw that brick.
Where is the AOL window anyway (8-)#
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