if I had my choice between using AOL or not having Net
I'd choose not having net. AOL is the Microsoft of ISPs. So much so that the MSN was based on the way AOL is run.
An ex-coworker of mine had his AOL email bounce for over a day, he lost important messages that somehow ended up in a black hole. He lost clients, and missed important meetings because AOL had email problems. So he switched to MSN, but later had the same problems. If he had picked a local ISP like I told him to, he would not have had these problems. Part of the problem is that AOL is so freaking huge that they cannot manage all those connections. So something breaks somewhere. Despite getting slapped around like they are AOL's b*tch, the customers still stay loyal. They make the MacJihad look like a Girl Scout troop, you cannot buy that kind of loyalty. Some of them are Rednecks that don't know any better and bought their PC to see big hooters on that Tomb Raider girl.
But enough about it, you know I don't like them. But nothing I can do about it.
We might trade one really bad company for another. Exit Microsoft, enter AOL/Time/Warner/Turner/Netscape/Red Hat/Evil Ed's House Of Pancakes. In five years, instead of complaining about Microsoft, we will be complaining about AOL instead.
