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Message # 8191.2.1.2.1 Subject: A post-dial-up world? GLADLY! - When the price of DSL is as affordable! Date: Sun 25/01/04 03:56:23 GMT Name: Doug Dress2Splash Email: Dress2Splash@hotmail.com |
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"Hopefully b4 2 long there won't be anyone left using dial-up,..." - WIR
I share that hope, under one condition - that the cost of DSL and other non-dial-up internet connections will come down to current local-company dial-up levels.
I, for one, will never change from Dial-up until then. I don't care about the drawbacks - $16.95 a month is hard to beat. If you pay annually for a year's service, it drops to near $12 monthly.
Folks - You'll NEVER find a DSL that meets or beats THAT price!
Prove me wrong, if you can. Please!
- Doug
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In reply to Message (8191.2.1.2) Re: Re: My 2 Cents
By WETINRED - stekz@cableone.net Fri 23/01/04 05:20:44 GMT Website: www.wetinred.com That's Ok by me, Morgan U can throw ur 2 cents in whenever u feel like Cuz when u do we can always look forward to a new pic Hopefully b4 2 long there won't be anyone left using dial-up and won't have to have all these problems |
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By Morgan Miles - info@pleaseteaseme.com Fri 23/01/04 03:25:50 GMT Website: http://www.pleaseteaseme.com I am all for using the isp of ones choosing and won't critisize your choice even if it isn't one I would make myself. You can't know though if you aren't told and I decided I would give my 2 cents on this issue. I agree 100% here. I figured if one more webmaster jumped in agreement it would help everyone understand AOL is a very bad provider, especially if you want to be a member of a password protected site.
MorganMiles.com has been online for over 3 years and AOL has taken us through about 5 versions in that time. Every problem they fix causes another. I bet most webmasters would agree with me that the majority of hours they spend trouble shooting with a member is not because the member forgot a password or had a setting on the computer messed up, but it is a problem with AOL.
About 2 years ago, AOL had an ip adress that just was not allowed to access MorganMiles.com. No matter who got it, it wouldn't work. I didn't even think the odds were there but hey, it was AOL. For 6 months, anyone with that IP had to log off the net and get a new IP. I even told my software to override it and exempt it from the system. No go. After hours upon weeks & months of trying to figure out what to do, it turned out it was an AOL routing problem and the AOL technicians had to fix it. There was nothing I could have done. So while I was having a member upset with me because "my site didn't work", in all actuality, I was on the phone describing the situation to help AOL techs troubleshoot THEIR problem.
None of this is the webmasters "job" but they do it because they want you to be able to enjoy the website. If everyone would get off AOL, most of the trouble shooting would be done. Just because they advertise the most, it doesn't make them the best.
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In reply to Message (8191.2) AOL ...
By Graham (Styx) - graham@styxwetworld.com Thu 22/01/04 20:06:28 GMT A few days ago, AOL managed to block all emails from btinternet and btopenworld. This effectively cuts off around 30% of the UK from speaking to AOL users. I have 3 customers all moving away from AOL now as they cannot rely on getting or sending their emails. They're losing business because of this cr*p company, and I've had to resort to instant messenger systems to be sure of getting communications to these folk.
With my main businesses, we have more trouble with AOL users than with anyone else. Most are incapable of reading any attachments and all (but a few) of them reply to emails without including the preceding conversation in them. Very helpful to get a single sentence email reply of "yes please, I'd like to go ahead" to an email quote sent 2 months ago!
Do yourself a favour, AOL users, and get a real internet connection .... (gets off soap box, angry, 'cos this really winds me up!) ... Graham |
In reply to Message (8191) Wamtec Gold - J Field
By MK - wamtec@compuserve.com Thu 22/01/04 11:45:11 GMT Attention J field...you signed up for the wamtec gold membership but then gave us an AOL address with that wonderful spamblocker that bounces my emails to you...so if you want your ID and Password to see all the videoclips...you must turn that silly spamblocker off.
AOLers who use that spamblocker...will be very lonely people.
MK
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