=> Subject: Re: [NF] : email I got from GoDaddy => => On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:13 PM, Eugene Vital wrote: => => > I think it is a shame that anyone ever used AOL. => => FWIW, AOL started out as a Mac-only service way back in => the late '80s. This was when the only other online services => were character- based, such as CompuServe, GEnie and => Prodigy. It had a small cult following, and yours truly was => a charter member. => => Needless to say, the monster into which it morphed => later on was nothing like the original service. => => -- Ed Leafe
If it is "needless to say," then why ... oh, never mind. <g> I've been with AOL since I can't remember when and I have never had any problem with them except for the one time my son, in his infinite wisdom, decided to impersonate Steve Case (in a jocular manner of course) and they shut down the whole account. I always considered his screen name to be a typo ... SCase should have been XCuse. With the release of AOL9, I've started a campaign to get everyone off of AOL. The software has become bloated (starts about 15 services) and assumes that everyone who uses it knows nothing about computers. In doing so, it consumes about 20-30% of system resources even if no "online" (not web-based) connection is running. In its heyday AOL was really good (and so easy to hack <g>). B+ HALinNY _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
