At 10:04 PM 3/10/02, you wrote: >In a message dated 3/10/2002 3:00:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >>Please, whoever is using AOL: since you cannot use AOL email and also >> >be frugal and readable at the same time, either stop posting in a >> >crude, expensive, and unpleasant manner to the Brin list; or else >> >write to and tell AOL that you are quitting them because their >> >software prevents you from being frugal and considerate. Thank you. > > >So I am to quit the list or stop using AOL which at least for the moment >would greatly piss off my daughter and moderately piss off my wife.
<s-word> Nah, just pay another $19.95/month for a second Internet service that you use only for sending messages to Brin-L. </s-word> ;-) Seriously, though: I know some people who are AOL even though they don't like the "features" they are forced to use (such as the formatted e-mail that we are now discussing) because AOL is the only service available where they live that makes a local phone number available so the phone company does not charge them by the minute for a long-distance call whenever they are on-line. Also, as suggested above, lots of kids like AOL because all their friends are on AOL and, again due to AOL's proprietary "features", they wouldn't be able to do things like chat with them as easily if they were on a non-AOL service, so their parents pay for AOL mostly for the kids. -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
