I don't usually find myself defending the use of AOL (in fact, this
may be the one and only time), but I can see why someone would use
it. Here are a couple reasons:
1.) Ubiquitous nodes. Pretty much anywhere you go (at least in the
States) there's a local dial-up number.
2.) Family reasons.
Bill,
I use AOL 5.0 and won't upgrade to 6.0 even with Doug's patch to send plain
text (It looks like a pain in the a__).
To answer your question, I was in Phoenix and Atlanta this week. My AOL
account was a local phone call away in both cases. Very convenient.
And I did need to call !!!
William Robb wrote:
Maybe a dumb question, and WAY off topic, but I can't see a
reason to use AOL, but I knwo there are many on the list who do.
What do they offer?
Thanks
A handy way to raise you blood pressure, mostly.
I can't wait to see the posts on what is good about it.
One of the
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I don't usually find myself defending the use of AOL (in fact,
this
may be the one and only time), but I can see why someone would
use
it.
I really was just curious.
BTW, I still have that AOL
On 02/03/2001 09:56, Doug Brewer opined:
Oh, and please, please, do not let this degenerate into another
HTML/plain text war.
Doug
At 9:50 AM -06002/3/01, William Robb caused thus to appear:
Maybe a dumb question, and WAY off topic, but I can't see a
reason to use AOL, but I knwo there are
In a message dated 2/3/2001 11:51:31 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe a dumb question, and WAY off topic, but I can't see a
reason to use AOL, but I know there are many on the list who do.
What do they offer?
Thanks
Bill
Bill-
I elected AOL three or four
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 11:22:11 -0600, William Robb wrote:
I really was just curious. BTW, I still have that AOL version 5
coaster awaiting the first caller. This is the rare last version
that supports plain text email. A must have peice of software
for any AOL subscriber.
Heck, post it on eBay.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To answer your question, I was in Phoenix and Atlanta this week. My AOL
account was a local phone call away in both cases. Very convenient.
AOL is not unique in having nodes all over the US. I use Mindspring (now
part of Earthlink), and can connect from anywhere I
On 02/03/2001 10:19, Ann Sanfedele opined:
I have an AOL account as an emergency backup for $4.95
a month, so I can get to ebay even if my server is down or I'm visiting
someone who has it I
can easily access the email I had forwarded there from my regualr
server. But there are so
many
Doug Brewer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That said, I'd prefer, if anyone on the list is going to use AOL,
that they use an earlier version that supports plain text or consider
employing another email client to interface with the list, as Peder
did.
Hasn't AOL gotten around to making its system
In a message dated 2/3/01 11:51:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe a dumb question, and WAY off topic, but I can't see a reason to use
AOL, but I knwo there are many on the list who do.
What do they offer?
Thanks
Bill
Bill, some of us started out with AOL way
In a message dated 2/3/01 1:40:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
That said, I don't know that I would ever miss AOL if I moved to another
server;
I know one: if your "Favorite Places" is nearly as huge* as mine, with all
those websites, saved mail, eBay folder-etc.,
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