In the early days, there were simply to many 'tards who didn't know and didn't want to know what they were doing. It was all a matter of hand holding. Not to mention, there wasn't 850,000,000 different dial up ISP's, at first.
There are still too many of those tards using AOL like it's the best thing ever made and people like this know crap about how to use a computer you have to come to their house and teach them how to send an e-mail or how to use MS Office.
the thing is those people should never be allowed to touch a pop3 client to begin with. webmail is good enough for 90% of the users out there imo.
if i didnt use Thunderbird id almost wish residential service ISPs to get rid of pop3 and only use their webmail portals lol. -- [65 Arcanist]Filan(High Elf) Zone: Broadband Reports