aol

I guess this is more a 'Dog bites man' story than a 'Man bites dog' story but AOL Mail has crashed. Hard. That's a good way to describe it. Email address from the 1990s. That's why I've maintained mine. Sentimental. Yet a few friends and acquaintances still insist on using it despite me telling...

I've noticed that when you log on to your AOL email, you see a "new" email that is within the past minute, according to the timestamp. I logged on to a different account I haven't logged on to in months, and sure enough! There is a brand spankin' new email at the top with an ad in it. A...

And don't just answer "because they are still making money", I want to know the deeper reasons, like why are they still making money, why do they still have paying customers? This is just too disturbing: 75% of AOL customers don't need to pay What a scam! They already have broadband or another...

My laptop has IE 7, AOL, and Netscape 8.13 installed. IE has decided it cannot connect via either the wireless network or when plugged into the router. AOL and netscape have no problems. Even with all firewalls turned off, it "cannot make HTTP or FTP connection--check your firewall". Anybody...

We've all heard the claim that 84% of the US believes 9/11 was an inside job. Over... and over... and over. Well I found these poll results pretty interesting. Should ABC fire Rosie, as O'Reilly implies? Yes, she crossed the line 61% No, it's free speech 39% Total Votes: 141,411 What do you...

Today I received another Urban Legend email from one of my friends. This one was about hotel keycards as a way for people to steal your identity. It sounded fishy to me immediately, so off I went to Snopes and within 30 seconds I had confirmed that it was indeed an UL and quite, quite false. I...

I hope it's ok if I post this in the computers sub-forum. It seemed like I would target the audience who might know the most about this. I have a free AOL account through my dad which I almost never use. I drop in periodically to clean out all of the spam which I did recently. Much to my...

With a one in three chance a AOL astrologer "picks" Katharine McPhee as the American Idol winner. Yet, the "winner" is qualified by the astrologer with "if she makes it that far." The astrologer's "credentials" to make a 1/3 guess is "a B.A. in The History and Science of Astrology from the...

d'oh :o

My girlfriend recently dropped her AOL account and started one up with MSN. My account is still on AOL (for reasons too boring to go into), and I have noticed some odd delays in her email to me. One time she sent an email to me, and a second one twenty minutes later. The second one got to me...

I know less than nothing about AOL. I do not use, never have used, and never will use, AOL. Unfortunately I have relatives, so... Here's the problem. My mom uses AOL on a dial-up. She reads all of her email online. She has a sister who is apparently sending email from an AOL account with a...

Usually, AOL polls have slight conservative lean (I've seen this on all polls about the UN, abortion, stem-cell research, immigration, etc.), but this is something new, it looks like a new mandate:

Al-Qaeda Online that is. I find it curious that this sort of discussion occurs in plain sight... If we were to learn the language and lingo, somehow I suspect that members of this forum would be quite effective at disrupting their debate. ;) (How do you say "Evidence?" in Arabic?) add: article

Is it worth it? Is the service reliable? Should I get it instead of dialup? For Canadians, anyone know if Rogers (or someone else) is better? Thanks so much

is it me or are the major improvements in AOL "animated super-buddy icons" and new "emoticons"? wow! sending business correspondence through e-mail just got more fun!:rolleyes: i get AOL for free through work but does anyone here actually pay 24 bucks a month for this???