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Peter M. Sang

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Oct 26, 1994, 5:43:53 PM10/26/94
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I found someone recently in an AOL Mac chat room who had entered at no
charge via another internet service. Because of AOL Big Ears, I did not
ask his route, but he did confirm he was cruising AOL at n/c. How'd he do
dat??

bpirie

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Oct 27, 1994, 7:26:28 AM10/27/94
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In article <38nskg...@twain.ucs.umass.edu>, spa...@unicorn.dorm.umd.edu (Spatch) says:

> AOL prepared these magazine adverts and everything and they were going to
>include in the adverts a free disk which had a demo program on your computer
>- Unfortunately, several of the disks they shipped contained the actual program

I'm not sure I follow you here... As a PC user, I can get a free working disk to connect to AOL
anytime I want. When I sign on, however, I have to provide user information, and a billing
method. Am I missing something here? I know that I can exchange any of my PC disks for
working copies of Mac disks.

Spatch

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Oct 27, 1994, 5:41:36 AM10/27/94
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In article <38miip$4...@pipe2.pipeline.com>,

This is a big secret so keep it quiet. AOL prepared these magazine


adverts and everything and they were going to include in the adverts a

free disk which had a demo program on your computer - you'd see a mockup
of the chat rooms and the email and all that. Unfortunately, several
of the disks they shipped contained the actual program you use to CONNECT
to America Online, the one that you have to pay $34.95 for! Consider
your friend one of the "Lucky Ones".


Tom Finley

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Oct 27, 1994, 4:50:42 PM10/27/94
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bpirie (bpi...@bev.net) wrote:
: I'm not sure I follow you here... As a PC user, I can get a free

: working disk to connect to AOL anytime I want. When I sign on,
: however, I have to provide user information, and a billing method.
: Am I missing something here? I know that I can exchange any of my
: PC disks for working copies of Mac disks.

I think that Spatch is having a little fun with us.
--
Tom Finley
tfi...@en.com

Spatch

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Oct 28, 1994, 3:17:31 AM10/28/94
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Huh? What do you mean? This is yet another person who's gotten one
of those "lucky" AOL diskettes. I'm quite surprised, I thought for sure
they hadn't propagated as quickly as they seem to have done.

John Smallberries

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Oct 30, 1994, 1:31:09 AM10/30/94
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PREVIOUSLY IN ALT.AOL-SUCKS:

Pete Sang writes:

The new AOL software for the Mac allows connections via TCP/IP. You must
still enter a password, though, to connect. Either this guy was on at no
charge because it wasn't his account to begin with or he was lying--as
most AOLers are wont to do in their sullied little chat shacks.

As for AOL's so-called monitors, why didn't you send the user an "instant
message"? Unless the AOL powers-that-be monitor those too, the only users
that see 'em are you and the person that's sending or receiving it.

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