Posted on 12/27/2004 7:13:33 PM PST by The Teen Conservative
Their CDs are all over the post offices, PC magazines. Their ISP software is crap. I only use it out of business necessity. For personal use, I use ATT.
AOL is not a true Internet Service Provider (ISP) and their content is immoral. I wouldn't let children use AOL.
ok. I'll bite
Betty Batter bought some batter, but she thought the batter was bitter. So she bought a bit of better batter to make her bitter better.
"Their CDs are all over the post offices, PC magazines."
Make sure you do not enter into a binding agreement with AOL over the phone. They tell you, and you agree to certain terms, and then they charge you as if you had agreed to different terms.
I hope this fraudulent (yes, I can make this statement as I right now am fighting them for charges over two years ago; have also all documentation. They even agree with me) company gets investigated by every state's attorney general.
I found that to be a particularly annoying quirk. I looked around and tried a bunch of things, but couldn't get it to work.
I finally got ahold of some "AOL helper person" online, and learned that if you highlight the text in the original e-mail (or whatever portion you want), then hit Reply, it will include the text in the reply e-mail.
Now you just have to pass that on to all the hundreds of people you're corresponding with. Good luck! :-)
Spam is annoying, but on the whole I prefer not to have my internet provider doing the filtering. The result seems to be that some of my correspondents can't get through to me.
This has been the case with a beta testing list I belong to, and also a financial adviser who sends out emails. In both cases they send out a lot of messages and evidently get filtered out.
I use SpamPal to do my own filtering. It works right about 95% of the time, but I look through the day's spam before discarding it since sometimes someone who isn't yet on my white list gets thrown in the discard.
Yea, well, the email the AOL users want is not getting through either. Emails to people with AOL addresses routinely get kicked back.
And the ebay email system sure does not like it.
I've been using AOL for 10 years. I've been in 37 states and 14 countries on business. They are the only ISP provider that I know of where you can use local telephone numbers on a national and international basis.
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