Sheldon wrote:
> sarah bennett wrote:
>
>>Sheldon wrote:
>>
>>>nancree wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>A much simpler way to reply, with AOL:
>>>>
>>>>Just hit the "reply" button in the upper right-hand corner. Piece of
>>>>cake.
>>>
>>>
>>>Bull... that will give a blank screen, you've quoted nothing unless you
>>>highlight thr portion you wish to quote... AOL Email works exactly the
>>>same as any other (no simpler, no more difficult), just has many more
>>>options (bells & whistles).
>>>
>>>Sheldon
>>>
>>
>>I found AOL's email system to be much more convoluted than using either
>>Outlook or Thunderbird.
>
>
>
> Convoluted... convoluted how... couldn't be easier.
I think that having to search for how to quote something instead of
being able to set it up to do that automatically, is convoluted. Most of
the people I know who use AOL have absolutely no need to do so. All they
use is the web and instant messaging, which can be found for much less
money, and higher quality, elsewhere.
>Then I don't
> believe you ever had a AOL account
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&hl=en
I used AOL for years and years, first when I was new to the internet
(circa 1994), and then later when I lived with my in-laws, and they let
us have screen names on their account. I pay less for DSL than the base
price for AOL these days, and that includes newsgroup access, which AOL
has discontinued. My in-laws now pay for AOL *and* cable internet, and
nothing I tell them will dissuade them. Oh well.
>... most (like the vast, vast
> majority) who make disparaging remarks about AOL have never used it...
> in fact most of those have not only never had an AOL account they never
> had their own ISP at all, they steal net services from their employer
> and/or use one of the many local freebies to get on line, like from a
> public library, and then start up a hotmail account to hide the fact
> that they're cheap bastards on line for free... I have more respect for
> webtv'ers.
>
I don't know much about WebTV, but I know from experience that AOL does
some really shady things. They claimed my husband spun off his screen
name into a separate account(He didn't. Why would he? They said it was a
pop-up that he would have had to click on to confirm. I had seen this
pop-up on my own screen name, and when it first popped up, I told my
husband about it. We agreed that the whole notion of changing an account
that easily was shady.) and started billing us twice every month. When I
called to complain, they told me that they could only reimburse me for
three out of five months that they had been doing this for. (I had not
noticed because I had stopped balancing my checkbook monthly, instead
checking off things as they showed up on my bank's online system, and
AOL was billing the two "accounts" weeks apart from each other). When I
tried to cancel my account with them, they all but refused to do so, and
even then, after I had gotten confirmation of my cancellation, I was
still being charged. When I called with my confirmation number after I
noticed that they were still charging me, they told me that my account
had never been canceled, and that I was a liar. After about an hour of
explaining over and over that I no longer wanted their service, they
finally canceled my account. I thought it was a fluke, until I found
many accounts online of people with the same problems.
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