On 02/11/2002 20:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill McIntyre) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >(Emailer-talk Posts) >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>AOL may "suck" but it is made for "ease of use" for those who are >>technologically challenged. Perhaps this person has more than a bit of >>"angst" with her machine. > >I'm not so sure about "ease of use" if that means conforming with the >rest of the internet world. I subscribe to a freedive list of about 600 >divers from all over the world. The list server does not accept mail with >attachments, and it does not accept html mail. We have many subscribers >who are reduced to lurking without the capability of posting because they >upgraded one step too far with AOL and cannot figure out how to override >its perferences so that it sends plain text mail. > >Its the technologically challenged ones who can't make it work, and only >the more sophisticated ones who can use it. It seems to me that is bass >awkwards. Its only easy to use if the rest of the world goes over to AOL. ----------------- Well, it is SUPPOSED to be Ease of Use as long as you stick with AOL, of course. They don't (or at least in the past haven't) give a darn about folks who don't use THEIR software.
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