TKJunkMail
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|  Why use a co-branded AOL? - to keep email addr
Believe it or not, many people will jump at the opportunity to move to a co-branded AOL broadband offering just so they can keep their AOL email address. Experienced users just don't see that as a problem and will switch email addresses and send out a bunch of emails announcing the change. But I have some friends and relatives who just do not want to make that change to their email address. AOL should move quickly to rope in those users before they learn that switching email identities is not such a big deal.
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rileyjam514
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| Exactly. Just look at their AOL Cable offering. The only downside to that is, it's locked up tighter than Alcatraz, so it's pretty useless to people with home networks or who want to use a good VoIP service, like Vonage. =)
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N10Cities
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said by TKJunkMail  :Believe it or not, many people will jump at the opportunity to move to a co-branded AOL broadband offering just so they can keep their AOL email address. Experienced users just don't see that as a problem and will switch email addresses and send out a bunch of emails announcing the change. But I have some friends and relatives who just do not want to make that change to their email address. AOL should move quickly to rope in those users before they learn that switching email identities is not such a big deal. For power users, it's no big deal. But I have seen some businesses out there having an AOL email addy, so it would be a bit of financial burden to reprint business cards, stationery, etc.....other than that...I agree... |
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GilbertMark
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| said by N10Cities :[For power users, it's no big deal. But I have seen some businesses out there having an AOL email addy, so it would be a bit of financial burden to reprint business cards, stationery, etc.....other than that...I agree... I will never understand any business owner or company that uses a free email account as their email address provider. Hello? Buy a domain name and use that for your unique identity and take it with you if you don't like a particular host.
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Taurus333
join:2001-04-06
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| The difference between Aol and other providers when it comes to e-mail is that with Aol a full mailbox is based on number of e-mails as opposed to so many mb. I think the Aol limits are 1000 new mail, 1000 old mail, 500 sent mail with each e-mail able to be 16mb. In other words with an Aol account you end up with about 40g of potential e-mail storage, far exceeding any other provider out there. |
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sporkme
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said by GilbertMark :I will never understand any business owner or company that uses a free email account as their email address provider. Hello? Buy a domain name and use that for your unique identity and take it with you if you don't like a particular host. Even better are the ones that obviously have a domain name since they have a "company.com" website. Then on the "contact us" section of the site they have an email address posted like "companyname9583285@aol.com".
Priceless...
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Taurus333
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| said by sporkme :Even better are the ones that obviously have a domain name since they have a "company.com" website. Then on the "contact us" section of the site they have an email address posted like "companyname9583285@aol.com". Priceless... Well since I have a business domain that uses an aol e-mail address for contact.....
1) my domain gets so much spam its like trying to find a needle in a haystack even with using filters while my aol account gets nearly no spam at all
2) my domain has a limit of 10mb while with my Aol account I don't have the concern of a full mailbox (see my above post for limits)
3) When I am signed onto Aol all I have to do is click on switch screen names to see if I have mail on that name and I will see an e-mail sent there faster than if it is sent elsewhere allowing for a much faster response time |
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said by TKJunkMail :Believe it or not, many people will jump at the opportunity to move to a co-branded AOL broadband offering just so they can keep their AOL email address. Experienced users just don't see that as a problem and will switch email addresses and send out a bunch of emails announcing the change. But I have some friends and relatives who just do not want to make that change to their email address. AOL should move quickly to rope in those users before they learn that switching email identities is not such a big deal. I know several people just like that. Makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE!! Then, there's also the people that do switch to just a basic high speed connection and STILL pay for AOHELL e-mail seperately! Even more rediculous!! 
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aol draws obvious conclusion after how many years of knowing what the obvious conclusion was... |
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Actually AOL is unlimited email, there is no maximum. AIM email has a 2 gig max, but an AOL account is now unlimited. |
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rileyjam514
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join:2005-06-26
Kearny, NJ
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I think the point is that it looks very unprofessional, like your secretary set up her email address for the contact information instead of a full-fledged company domain.
Granted, I understand what you're saying, but have you thought of forwarding mail from the business account to your AOL account instead of just handing out the AOL address? The AOL filters would grab anything the business filters missed.
Just my two slivers of gold-pressed latinum.
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Taurus333
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Ohio
| said by rileyjam514 :I think the point is that it looks very unprofessional, like your secretary set up her email address for the contact information instead of a full-fledged company domain. Would it make a difference to you that the Aol address that is used is the company name, same as my domain?
said by rileyjam514 :Granted, I understand what you're saying, but have you thought of forwarding mail from the business account to your AOL account instead of just handing out the AOL address? The AOL filters would grab anything the business filters missed. Actually Aol doesn't filter out forwarded mail as it does mail addressed directly to an Aol account. I forward all my Earthlink mail to an Aol screen name, luckily I don't use that name for anything besides that cause all I get there is spam. |
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JoshNJ
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Freehold, NJ
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said by GilbertMark :I will never understand any business owner or company that uses a free email account as their email address provider. AOL is not free, and there are many businesses that originally started with their aol email address 10 years ago or more, to think that they should change their email address just because it ends in @aol.com is stupid, for a business to change their contact info is not like changing personal contact info, businesses build up years and years worth of contacts that have that information.
Imagine how much business your local dominos pizza would lose if they changed their phone number, even if they told as many people as they could, they would still lose a lot of pizza sales.
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hafizullah
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Flemington, NJ
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They don't have to use AOL as their ISP to keep their email address. AOL now supports standard IMAP, and AOL subscribers can pay $4.95 per month to keep their address and read their mail in any IMAP-compliant mail client such as MS-Outlook.
There is also Email2POP [email2pop.com], a first-rate shareware POP/SMTP gateway to AOL's servers. |
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