AOL 7.0

[Sephiroth]

man talk about suck ass pigion shit! AOL 7.0 is totally gay, and talk about slow( even more on a P133 cpu). personaly i will stick to my $10 a month internet fee and not AOL's shitty ass rapeing 30. Also AOL is banded from doomworld( well from useing the message board) I have never like AOL and i think it sucks the big one, i feel sorry for all the AOL users here

[elbryan42]

aol.... um, why?

[Lüt]

I got 7.0, it's pretty worthless. More pretty graphics and menus = pointless resource hog. Functionality is all the same, just slower. The nice thing is the smooth scrolling in email, but that's about the only good thing in it. Bah to that. Back to 5.0 for me.

[Scrum]

Do you guys have any OTHER ISP available other then AOL?

[Lüt]

I use AT&T @Home cable "service", but I keep AOL at $9 per month for it's email capabilities.

[Crendowing]

Do you guys have any OTHER ISP available other then AOL?

I don't trust those free ISPs. There's always a catch to it.

Now, broadband may be expensive, but it is WELL worth it, as I've heard. I sure hope so, 'cuz I'm waiting to get a job and make some moolah to pay for my portion of the ISP.

[Scrum]

I use AT&T @Home cable "service", but I keep AOL at $9 per month for it's email capabilities.

@Home is where it's at, too bad I don't get DSL in my area or else I'd have the latter


I never knew AOL was worth having purely for the email though, I might have to look into it ;p

[Lüt]

I don't trust those free ISPs. There's always a catch to it.

NetZero is worthless crap, I can tell you that.

[Scrum]

Now, broadband may be expensive, but it is WELL worth it, as I've heard. I sure hope so, 'cuz I'm waiting to get a job and make some moolah to pay for my portion of the ISP.

Keyword: McDonalds.


They hire just about everybody and they give amazing hours, no bs and good pay judging that you work a lot. Also a nice little addition to your resume

[Crendowing]

Yep, and when Juno was free, it was crap too.

My friend used to have NetZero, and he hated it as well.

[Lüt]

@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.

[stphrz]

@Home limits me to 2 MB.

Hmmmm. I just sent my brother all his Quake 3 maps he made zipped (he's in Calgary) for a total of 17MB by @home email. He got them fine.

[Lüt]

Hmmmm. I just sent my brother all his Quake 3 maps he made zipped (he's in Calgary) for a total of 17MB by @home email. He got them fine.

Well fuck you too.

Then again I got a doomcenter address and it's supposedly unlimited filesized, so I'll have to "test" that sometime too :P

[elbryan42]

In the US is it possible to get anything other than the big names (Bell, AOL, Microsoft, etc) or are there smaller companies with internet (or better yet, high speed) that aren't as evil? God I hate commercialism.

Since I'm in Saskatchewan, Canada, we have about 20 ISPs. The two best are thru the cable company (Access Communications) and the phone company (Sasktel). Of course, if you don't live in an area that has the high speed lines you're fucked. When I move, the high speed will be more of a priority than the neighborhood. I swear, not a person uses AOHell or MSN here.

[Lüt]

In the US is it possible to get anything other than the big names

Yes, but you wouldn't want to. They all suck.

[elbryan42]

That's what I thought. Ah, Regina Saskatchewan. Home of the best pizzas, and fast cheap reliable internet.

The guinnea pig capitol of the world. I miss all of the stuff we only get for a month... chicken fries at KFC were awesome.

[nxn]

I use prodigy, I don't have any complaints twords it other then that they don't have DSL in my area yet while one of my neighbors has it.

[mr8]

In France AOL=SHIT...
Many users have problems with it.

[Scrum]

In France AOL=SHIT...
Many users have problems with it.

What a surprise!

[Lüt]

AOL=SHIT...

That applies everywhere, except this one guy's house who claims he has never had a problem with AOL in 5 years.

[Guest ZZ_TOPPER_X]

...except this one guy's house who claims he has never had a problem with AOL in 5 years.

That would be the facist creator of AOL.

[Lüt]

That would be the facist creator of AOL.

Actually, it's Dave. He's the same person who says NetZero is a great ISP and thinks Trent Reznor is a recording genius.

[Guest ZZ_TOPPER_X]

....who's Dave?

[Scrum]

Dave is his mentally challanged friend.

I have a lot of them too.

[Zeratul 982]

7.0? At this rate there will probably be an 11.0 before we know it.

[Crendowing]

...and thinks[???] Trent Reznor is a recording genius.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............

[Lüt]

...and thinks[???] Trent Reznor is a recording genius.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............

Relax, I didn't say anything about his actual songwriting this time. But that he uses bad recording techniques to sound "unique" is a fact.

[999cop]

surprise to see that even AOL is available to be used in France....If so, I think I shouldn't get mine upgraded to 7.0 with a aol7.0 cd sample where i can get it from office max then, instead i should "drop-grade" my aol6.0 back down to 5.0, cuz 6.0 is even much annoying than 5.0!

does anyone recommand springfield, earthlink, or prodigy here? and how much of each ones monthly?

[Katgut]

AOL=SHIT...

That applies everywhere, except this one guy's house who claims he has never had a problem with AOL in 5 years.

Nah, AOL's decent. Worst ISP available around here is a local one, then (maybe) AOL. :-/

[deadnail]

Nah, AOL's decent. Worst ISP available around here is a local one, then (maybe) AOL. :-/

As an ISP AOL is, at most, competent, but their true fault lies within the absofuckinglutely horrible software they churn out.

Only a retarded company would buy something as buggy and outdated as Netscape.