[50mhz] Re: Fw: More AOL Woes (Everyone Please Read)

Michael A. Urich mike at ka5cvh.com
Mon Aug 9 20:27:01 EDT 2004


>There's a reason AOL is an acronym for so many colorful things,
>and also a reason why AOL Users is, in jest, properly pronounced
>"AOLusers".

For the life of me I can't figure out why someone would pay what the going
rate for AOL is when there are so many good sub $10/mo ISP's with better
customer service out there.

Hehehe now lets see ...
Another
Online
Loser
comes to mind.

or the "Fisher & Price" internet company.  They give you have all those
pastel colors and soft corners so you don't hurt yourself.

:-)
Picking on AOL is kind of like picking on "childrens band" (CB) operators
isn't it?
:-)

>In making it so easy, AOL not only takes over and screws up the
>computers of its customers and spies on them, (unless you are a
>power user or hacker you may never notice the intrusions and
>modifications) but AOL has placed its customers upon a foul
>pillar of its own crapulence for all to see.

We finally found a way to block AOL spiders from crawling our web-sites.
It stinks when you push over 10 gig of traffic a month and yet 25% of the
"hits" are from the AOL spider.  Yeah, I'll say *_SPY_* real loud.

Mike Urich, KA5CVH
http://ka5cvh.com

Character = How you treat people who can do nothing for you in return!



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