I must correct a number of errors in Mr. Halfhill's post about aol. I
lived and worked in that area for 35 years.
First, Dulles and Langley are 10-15 miles apart.
Second, Langley does not provide a residence to the thousands of CIA
employees. Most of them cannot afford to live in the area
In the light of this email I received from Lydia Howell about the origin,
present location and intelligence connections of AOL, perhaps those of you who
are signed on to aol.com or the closely connected cs.com might want to consider
selecting a different internet service provider.
Robert
I have just learned that AOL has banned my website, blog and The Pen and
letters containing url's to these sites. My website and blog contain
controversial political views but banning them on that basis is censorship. It
is not as if people who object to the views on these sites are forced
All AOL addresses should be restored to the list. Again, it was a
Net-wide virus outbreak that caused certain e-mail gateways to reject
certain domain names - the list didn't transmit a virus, so don't
worry.
Hopefully, all is back as it was...if not, let me know.
David Brauer
List manager
I could use a reasonably tech savvy AOL user - or at least someone who knows
how to converse with AOL tech support - to help with a list management
problem.
Our server is currently set up to stop posts that aren't in Plain Text or
have attachments. (This is to block viruses like the one that got
