KickMe
join:2001-10-03
Lancaster, OH
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·Earthlink Cable Mo..
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Re: [TWC] FREE AOL for RoadRunner users
said by DJSlim  :Downloaded my aol 9.0 from download.com so it is not a special version at all. Regular stock AOL. I was assigned a master name by the RR sales person and now I can create 6 more. Something must be skewed in my thinking here. But isn't TW/AOL making it possible for 7 people to sign up for one RR account at $45 a month and then splitting the bill allowing each to get AOL dialup for $6.50 a month? |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by KickMe :said by DJSlim :Downloaded my aol 9.0 from download.com so it is not a special version at all. Regular stock AOL. I was assigned a master name by the RR sales person and now I can create 6 more. Something must be skewed in my thinking here. But isn't TW/AOL making it possible for 7 people to sign up for one RR account at $45 a month and then splitting the bill allowing each to get AOL dialup for $6.50 a month? Comcast, SBC Yahoo!, and any other service which allows multiple email accounts under a primary account is also opening up their services (sans AOL, of course!) to such abuse. The only catch, for those involved, is that the primary account holder is responsible for the entire bill; if somebody using a sub account welshes on the deal, the primary account holder will have to pick up the slack, or the account will be terminated for non-payment. Do you trust your friends enough to count on them with no enforceable contract? Indeed, do you trust your friends not to rat you out to the ISP, considering that such bill-splitting is a violation of the "no resale" clause in every HSI AUP/TOS that I have reviewed?
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Norman
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Cybertoad
join:2001-11-08
Houston, TX
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said by KickMe :Something must be skewed in my thinking here. But isn't TW/AOL making it possible for 7 people to sign up for one RR account at $45 a month and then splitting the bill allowing each to get AOL dialup for $6.50 a month? You do know that you can't use those at the same time, right? When my Aunt is at her office using AOL, she
will get bumped offline if her daughter logs into AOL
from home even if her daughter uses a different sub-login
and irregardless whether or not my Aunt is connected via
broadband or dialup.
AOL only allows 1 simultaneous login per account.
Totally forgetting about the TOS violations splitting
the bill would cause, good luck coordinating the login
schedule on that one !!! |
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TMSKILZ
join:2004-03-07
Woodside, NY | Cybertoad that only applies to AOL Dial-Up version.
I have AOL SE Broadband version, more than one person/user account can sign up @ the sametime to the NET. |
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