RE: Junk - off-topic - solution

["David B. Kronenfeld" kfeld@xxxxxxxx]

For what it's worth, there do exist others that are less annoying than what
you are describing, such as Earthlink, and there are other freebies (I
gather) that have some of these qualities.  Earthlink, at least, does work
well nationally and beyond--I've done it. AOL was noted in our local
newspaper as being the lowest tech/most primitive of the bunch.

                David

At 10:36 AM 1/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
>     Agreed. But the main reason seems to be that you can access your one
> account from local telephone numbers just about anywhere you travel. I
> haven't shopped it, but if anyone knows of ISPs less annoying than AOL for
> which this is true, I'd be delighted to hear about it (for the moment I'm
> using AOL on my home computer).
>     Peter Brown
>     pbrown@xxxxxxxx
>
> > What I don't understand is why people use AOL, which adds junk to email,
> > junk to your screen and is about as antithetical to the Xyway as one can
> > get, internetly speaking. There are plenty of ISPs out there....
> >
> > --
> >                     Regards,
> >                     David
> >


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