There was an NPR story a few years back about how some thought AOL WAS the
Internet. I've encountered this a few times, where people have never
explored outside of the content side of AOL and could not be coaxed away.
As recently as last week I had someone call and was assisting their family
to finally get on the Internet and was under the distinct impression that
MSN and AOL were the only options.

"Mitch Deutsch" wrote in message
link.net...
What I don't understand is that people continue to maintain their loyal
allegiance to AOL despite their prior poor history in not providing what
they had promised and their high priced monthly fees.............

Competition for your dollars is out there. There are several high quality
ISP's out there who provide more and ask for less.

My two cents....


"MikeYankee" wrote in message
...
Yesterday AOL flashed a message to all users clicking on newsgroups to
the
effect that it would no longer support newsgroups as of "early 2005"
(see
below).

When I inquired about this, AOL said this new policy "was based on user
feedback" -- yeah, like we've all been banging down AOL's door asking
them
to
reduce their service.

If you're an AOL user and you think this really stinks, use keyword
"Tell
Us"
and let those *******s hear from you.

----------------- actual text of AOL message ------------------------

Please Note: The AOL Newsgroup service will be discontinued in early
2005.


For members using AOL over a dial-up connection, you will no longer be
able to
access Newsgroups. If you have a separate high-speed connection, you
can
contact your broadband provider to see if they offer Newsgroups.
Newsgroup
services can often be accessed through a third party reader, such as
Mozilla
Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/).

Alternatively, you can access Newsgroups via Google at
http://groups.google.com/.

We apologize for this inconvenience.


Mike Yankee

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