what does AOL offer
Tim923
a dial-up service like Prodigy.
If one has high speed Internet like Roadrunner or Verizon, what exactly does
AOL offer? Can't one just use Internet programs like IE and Outlook
Express? Or is AOL its own high speed Internet service like Roadrunner?
Does AOL have its own browser and email client built-in like the 1990s? Tim
Dave C.
AOL used to be a paid service. Now it is a "free" (advertiser supported) service.
IMHO, the only thing AOL offers worth anything now is free e-mail. You can access that with any e-mail program that is compatible with IMAP. But you can also get free e-mail from google or yahoo or hotmail, etc.
It's funny you should mention roadrunner. I was a paid customer of AOL High-Speed service. That is, I paid AOL directly for cable modem broadband service. Then one day I got a letter stating that the service had been discontinued and now I was a customer of something called RoadRunner Lite from Time Warner. Sure enough, I started getting bills mailed directly from Time-Warner. My e-mail addresses never changed. (still ended in aol.com) But eventually, I started noticing that every e-mail we sent out had ADVERTISEMENTS inserted automatically in the bottom of the e-mails. Almost stopped using AOL for that reason. But they eventually made it possible to turn off the advertisements. (turn off "footers")
AOL does have its own browser and e-mail client, if you are stupid enough to install the AOL software on your computer. The only thing it will "add" to your computer is the ability of AOL to pipe more advertising onto your desktop.
For the most part, AOL is DEAD. -Dave
Cliff
Xposted to alt.aol.tricks.
Lots of SPAM from the other "free" services. Very little from AOL.
Probably harder for someone to hack their (unexpected) client softwre too
or add a virus.
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Cliff
Tim923
homepage to advertisement or change my browser or something annoying like
that that I had to remove and uncheck. Tim