No, no, AOL can totally be trusted with your e-mail

Yahoo Email is FREE!!!

by noche202002 (See profile) - April 17, 2006 10:29 AM PDT

We all know anybody with any kind of computer knowledge will not use aol. They cater to the "not so educated crowd" and it works for them. The aol users are the walmart shoppers, bush voters, bad drivers of the world. There are many people who fit this in todays "american society". I mean come on how smart can you be to pay $25 for aol dialup when dsl can be purchased in most areas for less with 50 times the speed? They deserve to be screwed over by aol i dont feel sorry for them personally. They chose the service for whatever reason let them deal with it while us cable/dsl users surf 100 sites in the time it takes them to surf 10.

by geo504 (See profile) - April 16, 2006 10:52 AM PDT

From being an IT support technician for 10 years I hate AOL with a passion. Still it's a bloated POS, prevents normal emails from being received more often than not, and has caused almost the same amount of problems on computers than spyware. I'm surprised that with so many people that hate AOL, AOL gets bigger, and bigger, everyday. >:-|

by eriqc (See profile) - April 15, 2006 8:11 PM PDT

Ah, AOL. Back in the somewhat wilder days of the Internet AOL was the
service people got into when they were too non-technical to get on GEnie,
which was a service for people who are not technical enough to get on
Compuserve which at that point charged 6.00 an hour for offhour dialup and
featured a user interface that consisted of a ! and some letters. We are
talking mass services here, not BBS's or other really techincal hideouts.

AOL was the first actual GUI internet service, it ran on something called GEOS
that ran over DOS and made the screens pretty. They have not changed much
from then since their motive was to lock people into their services and portals
and this is another case of them assuming their user base is nothing but the
lowest common denominator who would not realize if half their mail was
being blocked or even much care. I heard the other day they are raising the
rates of their dialup to match broadband rates to force dialup users to
migrate and make it so they can remove those expensive banks of modems
and 1FB lines they have to maintain for them.

by Melissa Good (See profile) - April 15, 2006 8:28 AM PDT

The market offers a number of choices today and I use many as I need to understand what my customers are using as they access our various online services. AOL users have the least number of problems and we recommend them for those who do not want to or are unable to pull maintenance on thier own computers which just happens to be most people. Many of these people are highly intelligent and very accomplished in life. Those who like to tinker and push the capabilities of their system find AOL obstrusive. Simply put, most people today use the computer to get work done, not to work on the computer. Decide which group you fit in and pick a solution designed for your needs. thanks for listening.

by kathstan (See profile) - April 15, 2006 8:18 AM PDT

When high speed in my area was pending I used an AOL cd for free internet until finally Verizon DSl was available. 8 months later and those idiots are still sending me offers. It took me forever just to get them off my bill. What is wrong with this company they offer their "special"(terrible) services for an extra $8 a month. What A Waste!!! Why on earth anyone would still have AOL I have no idea. Terrible services, ridiculous expense, and annoying software. In the 90s EVERYONE had AOL but now it should be gone anytime soon. Aol ain't worth it.

by thefox84 (See profile) - April 15, 2006 7:51 AM PDT

Anybody using AOL needs to be shot. If you must use dialup, go with Earthlink: unobtrusive, no need to keep an annoying program up to keep your connection live, less intrusive - I could go on. This censorship further proves their stalin-like qualities.

by mongoos150 (See profile) - April 14, 2006 10:03 AM PDT

Ok so lets look at this with a small bit of inteligence. AOL has built in spam blocking. AOL users for some reason choose to be AOL users for this and other features. An email with a link in it for a website goes out to all the AOL customers email accounts. This happens more than once with this same link in all the emails. Would you maybe think that some automated system rule would maybe start blocking in at some point for being....(drumroll).... SPAM!

There would be no difference to seeing hundreds, thousands or millions of customers recieve this email or recieving one saying "hi my name is cindy, come visit me at <insert web address> and get to know the real me". I personally would expect something like this porn advertisement to get flagged by the system without user action being required.

I'm not familar with the AOL system, but any spam program that requires that I personally take the action to block something is worthless, I could do that with rules in my email program.

by dheadley (See profile) - April 14, 2006 7:49 AM PDT

AOL was cool like in the 1990s.

Who still uses it? It remains a primitive and out-dated service.

With better ISP options, such as Comcast, Verizon, and Cox, along with FREE features found online like:
email - gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc
calendars - Google
AIM - AOL (okay, AOL is good for one thing but you still dont need the actual AOL service to use its IM program), MSN Messenger, Google Messenger, etc

So lets see:
1) There are better ISP providers available
2) Free email is available on the internet
3) Free calendars are available on the internet
4) Free IM programs are available on the internet
5) The internet offers as much as AOL plus a lot more...

I ask again, who needs AOL?

by techmonkey (See profile) - April 13, 2006 8:20 PM PDT