> He is, however, wrong about AOL ever being cool.
AOL offered a lot more than compuserve, genie, delphi, or indeed any of the other similar services. It had more people, was easier to use than any of its competitors. Users didn't use aol for email at first, but for things like meeting folks, getting access to more businesses than any other place using a computer and similar considerations, it might not have been cool but it sure was the most useful. I have to note that AOL as a portal is likely finished, and that newbies from AOL getting on usenet produced lots of upset on the part of some oldtimers, it didn't bother me at all, but then again I had already seen similar reactions as other newbies had gotten on usenet. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
