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Re: To Michael J. Mahon
Bill Garber wrote:
"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
09idnbW2SY1DL9LfRVn-rA@comcast.com">news:09idnbW2SY1DL9LfRVn-rA@comcast.com...
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: Bill, I'm glad that you found out what was causing your
: messages to be rejected.
:
: As you may know, AOL has long offered a degree of spam filtering
: to its users, which they can configure. I have always chosen to
: turn this off (the non-default setting).
I, too, when I used AOL, turned off there many governing protocols.
Whenever I have tried them again and again, I rediscovered the many
reasons why I quit them in the first place. Although I have to now
protect myself, at least I have the freedom to run my setup the way
"I" want to, and not how someone else wants me to. The nicest thing
about Comcast is, even though I pay for 3 IPs, which are on my PC,
my GFs, and daughter's, I've still been able to get 2 more for the
G3, and IIgs without hassle. I imagine that I could cancel 2 of my
paid IPs and still get any additional IPs that I need through the
DHCP protocol. Also, Comcast's support center is knowledgeable and
gets any problem I have fixed in record time. I have had to call AOL,
when I used them, over and over again and still ended up working out
my own problems. Btw, do you use their "bring your own access" service?
I retain dial-up access, but when I'm at home I use Comcast as my
ISP and connect to AOL using TCP/IP.
I've found that the only chance of getting real support on AOL is
through their tech "chat" system. Of course, they have absolutely
no input into AOLs design teams, so there is really no feedback
path that I have found to work.
The most annoying thing about AOL (and this seems to be true of
most portals) is the neverending "fatness" of their software, which
continues to grow and consume resources to offer services in which
I have no interest.
I expect the next version will be 50MB larger, and consume 30% of
my machine's resources in return for offering me the opportunity
to "jam with other online rap musicians" or some such nonsense. ;-)
: Recently, they have intensified their "war" on spam, apparently
: with good effect. It would not surprise me to find that they
: have inserted some "non-optional" filtering in their pursuit of
: a spam-free world. ;-)
Their service is great for the "technically challenged", and I'm glad
there is a service that provides people with a no-knowledge method
of accessing the internet, and this is why I call them "internet for
dummies". :o) Not to imply at all that you are a dummy. You are by
far, not one. :o)
I have maintained a stable email address for many years, and I
hope to keep it that way--unless I'm finally convinced that it is
worth getting my own domain name, and having to change hundreds of
references to my current email address.
I used the service now called AOL when it was Applelink-Personal Edition
starting around 1983--with an Apple //e. As the service evolved and
changed its name, I stuck with it. I was also a Compuserve member and
a GEnie member. I even gave Prodigy a chance (ugh!). Of course, I
also used lots of BBS systems then, both Apple-oriented and CP/M.
Through all of that, AOL has survived and evolved, first into a
usable Internet portal, and lately into a stable address and web
presence. They offer a senior discount, and I have family members
who share my account. All in all, it's a pretty reasonable deal.
(Though when they dropped newsgroups last month, I had to start
using the Giganews service included with my Comcast service.)
-michael
New Applesoft BASIC interface for NadaNet networking!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/