On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 02:20, Scott G. Hall wrote:
> Yea, and did you notice that those are all companies owned by AOL? They
> bought CompuServ in the late '90s, and Earthlink a year ago last summer
> (shortly after Earthlink bought Mindspring -- another one to add to your
> list). I used to be a Mindspring customer and jumped ship when AOL made
> worse the already deteriorating service from Earthlink.
Uhm, just curious but when did AOL buy Earthlink? I never heard of
this, and doing some google searches, I can't find anything to back this
up. The closest I could find was an agreement with Time-warner to offer
Earthlink Internet over their cable modem lines (part of the agreement
for AOL and Time-warner to merge). Anyways, could you point me to
something that actually talks about this buyout? Thanks.
-David
PS. I dropped Mindspring way back when they started blocking outbound
port 25 connections so that you could only send email through their SMTP
servers. Was very annoying.
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