Welcome to the 21st Century! I will add you back to the lists shortly.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 11, 2018, at 23:50, Billy Rojas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Ernie: > I tried to send the following to the group but forgot about your screening > process, > > Maybe you can re-sign-me-up. > > > Thanx > > Billy > > > Centroids: > > Finally found an internet access provider that allows me to have use of a n= > umber of features that were part of "old AOL" back when AOL was a superlative > e-mail service. > > The end of old AOL dates before September of 2016 but that decidedly was the > turning point in AOL's self-destruction. > > Rackspace is decent enough, it even has a few features that AOL never has had, > features that should be useful to me in the future. Still, nothing is like > what AOL once was, especially its 9.0 Security Edition which was new in late > 2004. > > I would like to know if anyone can tell me what e-mail access provider is > nearly as good; > > I have done a great deal of looking in recent weeks and from what I have seen > nothing > comes close. Which is not to say that the "new AOL" is anything but > a pile of sh*t; that is exactly what it has become, nearly worthless garbage. > > > But to speak of AOL of yore..... > > > Not that we speak the same language; graphic artists have one lexicon, text > -only people have a very different vocabulary. For instance, when a tech > person talked > to me not long ago about e-mail size I immediately thought of format, the > size of > the e-mail window, its proportions, how usable it might be to me in terms of > mixing text and images. But the lady was not talking about format, > she was referring to gigs of memory storage. > > > Sure, gigs of capacity is important, obviously. But it struck me as typical > of non-artists to be dismissive of format, as if it doesn't really matter. > For an artist > -or a e-magazine editor, etc- format comes first in line, however, other > factors necessarily > are lower on the totem pole. > > > Anyway, Rackspace seems to give me maybe half of what "old AOL" offered its > customers and I'm thankful for that much. With some digging and a little > luck it may > even be possible to stitch together several features from various online > programs > to assemble something "like" what AOL used to be. > > > Sorry for lack of communications lately but between chronic medical problems > and the unwanted necessity of changing internet access providers, which was > difficult for me even if for some people at RC.org that switch over might > have been child's play, everything has taken a lot of time. And it probably= > will take me a few weeks, at that, to really learn the Rackspace system. But > I'm > back online again -hurrah! -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
