Re: AOL using IIC pictures!

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <RPLwdHQ.chstiles@delphi.com>,
Lover of Delphi -I live on Philadelphia  <chstiles@delphi.com> wrote:
>The reason the commercial 'old line' services are having trouble is that the
>main interest of people getting online for the first time is IRC and the
>like, and the fee for AOL or CIS or Prodigy seems a little steep compared
>to an ISP which allows those users to chat nice and private with some other
>person with the same interests.

   AOL does irc. (Given the quality of a certain vocal subset of their
users, a number of channels just do an outright ban on *aol.com); I'm
pretty sure delphi and maybe another one does IRC also. 

   IRC is not the be all and end all of the internet; I'd say that the
World Wide [bandwidth] Wastage is far more popular due to the fancy
pictures and interfaces that anyone can understand. There are also a
fair number of people who just want an email address because snailmail
is a good chunk slower, and local phone calls to an ISP beat long
distance phone rates.

   This is severely off topic enough for csa2; might be nice to move
it elsewhere.

Nathan Mates
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