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@Home is where it's at
Not really. I'm gonna get a DSL line soon. @Home has been offline 5 months this entire year, leaving to use NetZero for dialup, which I've been stuck with for the last 6 days. They don't allow servers either, so when I do get my server going I'll be forced to find a DSL company anyways.
I never knew AOL was worth having purely for the email though, I might have to look into it ;p
AOL mail isn't compatible with certain internet mail features, most notably inserted images, which raises complaints. What I like is, as far as I can tell, there's no file attachment size limit. I've sent some 15MB MPG files over AOL mail without trouble. Most ISPs limit mail attachments to 2 or 3 MB, sometimes 6 if you're lucky. @Home limits me to 2 MB. I mean, it's a fucking cable service, that kind of file takes almost no time to send/receive, you'd think they'd have a 20MB limit or something. The problem with that small limit is that most MP3s are 4-8 MB in size, so I can't send any MP3s by mail (and ever since xoom/nbci went down, I've had to send all my MP3s around by email.)
Now, in addition to the unlimited file size, the file stays on the AOL server for at least 2 weeks without being accessed (if it hasn't been accessed in a certain amount of time, it gets deleted). The nice thing with that is that I can immediately forward huge files without re-uploading them. If I was to do that with @home or any other ISP, I'd have to re-upload the files each time I forwarded the email. On AOL I can just upload it once and forward to as many people as I want without reuploading, which is nice when I'm sending huge files around like MP3s or MPEGs, it saves me a SHITLOAD of upload time. All I have to do to keep the attachments available for immediate forwarding is forward it to myself every 2 weeks.
The final thing I like is that you're not forced to download attachments like other clients do; you can read the mail and see the attachment before you decide to download it. Most email programs will download the entire email AND attachment before you can even view the email, which is a pain in the ass if you send a huge file that gets rejected for whatever reason. When they're rejected, they get sent back to you, and you're forced to download the entire thing, usually right after you send it.
But, once I get my server up, I'll probably cancel AOL since I won't need that kind of file-transfer system anymore.
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10-23-01 21:16 
