timex18
join:2002-10-14
Davis, CA
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| Don't like AOL? Don't use them.
Yes, it's popular to hate on AOL. I only keep them for my email address because I have had it for 12 years. The biggest plus is I don't get any spam. I average ~30 emails a day from different mailing lists, friends, etc and I maybe get 1 spam email every 2-3 months.
Compare that to some of my other email addys I keep and the amount of spam that gets through and it's worth the $15 a month for me. Unless you pay for their service, why do you care if AOL is still there?
I don't like comcast, but rather than call for their death, I don't buy their services. |
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Jeffrey
too dark too early
Premium
join:2002-12-24
Dix Hills,NY
clubs:
 ·Optimum Online
·Verizon FIOS
 ·Vonage
·magicjack.com
| said by timex18  :Yes, it's popular to hate on AOL. I only keep them for my email address because I have had it for 12 years. The biggest plus is I don't get any spam. I average ~30 emails a day from different mailing lists, friends, etc and I maybe get 1 spam email every 2-3 months. Compare that to some of my other email addys I keep and the amount of spam that gets through and it's worth the $15 a month for me. Unless you pay for their service, why do you care if AOL is still there? I don't like comcast, but rather than call for their death, I don't buy their services. Oh, I don't care if AOL is there. In fact, I'd like them to stay around, as any competition is good competition. Some of their exclusive content - music and so forth - was very good.
I'm just saying that the way the handle subscribers that want to leave is rather absurd. |
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skullz5
join:2002-06-17
Clementon, NJ
2 edits | Surprise, surprise someone mentioned AOL and all the DIE AOL people got a new thread to ruin, why is it everytime someone mentions AOL that all these negative comments come out. So what if you dont like AOL, great no one is asking you too why turn every board that mentions AOL into a big bash session, GEESH.. its old already get over it! AOL had its day and some people still like it, I personally dont care for it now especially since all the premium stuff is now free. But why keep bashing them all the bashing in the world isnt going to kill them so get over it.. |
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vinnie97
join:2003-12-05
Mesquite, TX | It's wishful thinking combined with disgust with which I can also relate...though I understand how fruitless it is. |
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Twc Mpl-E
@rr.com
| reply to Jeffrey
Its funny how noone likes to pay hommage to innovators like AOL,believe or not they are innovators and at one time,especially 12-13 years ago,if you were online,most likely you used AOL,and it was fine then.Typical spoiled brats,screaming Die AOL!.In the beginning,it was you're only way to access the web.Us americans have a really big problem turning on someone/or something we praised.If you don't like AOL,don't use it.Old people use it because they feel safer browsing,don't knock a company for making money off someone that uses their product Verizon does, TWC does. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
1 edit | reply to timex18
I hate to tell you this friend... I have an AOL/AIM email account and I have never installed their crap software and never paid them a cent!
Didn't you hear? Most of AOL is free now! 
Not that I really see a need to use anything from AOL, but I *DO* have the email and can use the majority of AOL for FREE!
You're still paying? 
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Think outside the Fox... Opera |
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printscreen
join:2003-11-01
Juana Diaz, PR
·Choice Cable TV
·Coqui/PRTC
| reply to Twc Mpl-E
12-13 years ago there was Compuserve, Delphi, GEnie and by then many local ISPs were starting to spring around. There were already alternatives to be online. AOL was not the first to offer Internet access as part of their offerings neither was it the best in town. They only had better marketing (remember the ubiquitous AOL floppy disks and CDs?) and a user interface that was easier to use than the text-bases interface most online services were still stuck. They trully innovated in that sense. I was already online at the time and AOL has always been subject to bashing from AOL haters for different reasons. The first versions of their software incorporating Internet access were infamous for breaking your connectivity if you happened have use a regular ISP becuase it messed with the winsock configuration used by the other providers. |
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